Description du projet
Une meilleure surveillance des oiseaux pour comprendre les changements de la biodiversité
La stratégie de l’UE en matière de biodiversité pour 2030 consiste à protéger la nature et à restaurer les écosystèmes. Pour atteindre cet objectif, il est nécessaire de comprendre la façon dont les activités anthropiques affectent la biodiversité. Cela suppose des outils de surveillance efficaces permettant d’étudier les changements de la biodiversité. À titre d’exemple, les chercheurs utilisent des méthodes de surveillance acoustique passive pour surveiller les animaux qui vocalisent, comme les oiseaux (indicateurs pertinents de la biodiversité). Mais ces méthodes doivent encore être développées. Dans ce contexte, le projet BIOMON, financé par l’UE, va étendre les approches actuelles de pointe en matière de surveillance acoustique par des techniques innovantes d’apprentissage automatique. L’objectif de BIOMON est de développer un protocole de surveillance acoustique passive permettant d’étudier les communautés d’oiseaux dans les terres agricoles biodiverses de l’UE.
Objectif
The European Union's Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 emphasizes the need to halt biodiversity loss driven by anthropogenic activities. However, to achieve this, it is necessary to understand how those activities affect biodiversity so that evidence-based conservation interventions can be made. Therefore, effective monitoring tools are needed that can be used to survey biodiversity changes over large spatial and temporal scales. Conventional monitoring tools, based on expert field surveys, are time-consuming and expensive and, therefore, inappropriate for such large-scale monitoring. Consequently, researchers worldwide are increasingly turning their attention to new technologies. When it comes to monitoring vocalizing animals, such as birds, which have been shown to be appropriate indicators of biodiversity, researchers focus on the use of passive acoustic monitoring methods. However, further development of those methods is needed before conservation practitioners can use them widely and reliably in the field to monitor bird communities. BIOMON's main objective is to extend the current state-of-the-art acoustic monitoring approaches through the novel use of machine learning techniques. BIOMON's overarching goal is to develop an innovative passive acoustic monitoring protocol that can be used to survey bird communities in biodiverse agricultural farmlands in the EU. The EU is home to many species of which the persistence depends on low-intensity agricultural areas, and consequently, developing appropriate monitoring tools for those areas remains a key research priority. The methods and monitoring protocol developed in BIOMON, through the collaboration of the ER, a conservation biologist, and the supervisor, a machine learning expert, have the potential to contribute to the objectives of the EU's Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 and other related policies such as the Common Agricultural Policy.
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1036 Pallouriotissa Lefkosia
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