Open AccessPumilio: A Web‐Based Management System for Ecological Recordings
Author(s) -
Villanueva-Rivera Luis J.,
Pijanowski Bryan C.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
the bulletin of the ecological society of america
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2327-6096
pISSN - 0012-9623
DOI - 10.1890/0012-9623-93.1.71
Subject(s) - ecology , environmental resource management , geography , data science , environmental science , computer science , biology
Systems that record sounds automatically, known as autonomous recording units (ARU), have allowed researchers to readily collect sound recordings at intervals of time (e.g., Acevedo and Villanueva-Rivera 2006, Hutto and Stutzman 2009, Steelman and Dorcas 2010). These recordings are now being used in a variety of ecological studies, such as to monitor breeding patterns (Laiolo 2010), assess community diversity and animal population levels (Sueur et al. 2008b, Dawson and Efford 2009), and to characterize soundscape composition of various ecosystems (Dumyahn and Pijanowski 2011a, b, Pijanowski et al. 2011a, b, Villanueva-Rivera et al. 2011,). However, ARUs can generate a massive number of files, presenting challenges to researchers in terms of archiving, querying, analyzing, and retrieving sound files. Such capabilities are beyond the scope of traditional bioacoustics software, such as Raven (Charif et al. 2006), which have been designed for processing and analyzing single acoustic files.