We present The Acoustic Index User’s Guide, a web resource designed to help people explore and understand eight of the acoustic indices that are commonly used in soundscape analyses. To try it out for yourself please visit: https://ecohack.shinyapps.io/Acoustic_Index_Users_Guide

An open-access publication in the journal Methods in Ecology and Evolution is now available too, detailing a bit about the wider soundscape research field, and the origins and motivations of our project within it. Publication details are as follows:

• T. Bradfer-Lawrence, B. Duthie, C. Abrahams, M. Adam, R. J. Barnett, A. Beeston, J. Darby, B. Dell, N. Gardner, A. Gasc, B. Heath, N. Howells, M. Janson, M. Kyoseva, T. Luypaert, O. C. Metcalf, A. E. Nousek-McGregor, F. Poznansky, S. R. P. -J. Ross, S. Sethi, S. Smyth, E. Waddell, and J. S. P. Froidevaux, “The Acoustic Index User’s Guide: A practical manual for defining, generating and understanding current and future acoustic indices,” Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2024. [doi:10.1111/2041-210X.14357]
  [BibTeX] [link]

  @article{Bradfer:2024mee,
  author = {Bradfer-Lawrence, Tom and Duthie, Brad and Abrahams, Carlos and Adam, Matyáš and Barnett, Ross J. and Beeston, Amy and Darby, Jennifer and Dell, Benedict and Gardner, Nick and Gasc, Amandine and Heath, Becky and Howells, Nia and Janson, Magnus and Kyoseva, Maria-Viktoria and Luypaert, Thomas and Metcalf, Oliver C. and Nousek-McGregor, Anna E. and Poznansky, Frederica and Ross, Samuel R. P.-J. and Sethi, Sarab and Smyth, Siobhan and Waddell, Emily and Froidevaux, Jérémy S. P.},
  title = {{The Acoustic Index User's Guide: A practical manual for defining, generating and understanding current and future acoustic indices}},
  journal = {{Methods in Ecology and Evolution}},
  volume = {},
  number = {},
  pages = {},
  keywords = {autonomous recording unit, bioacoustics, ecoacoustics, passive acoustic monitoring, soundscape},
  year = {2024},
  doi = {10.1111/2041-210X.14357},
  link = {https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14357},
  month = may
  }