Programmable digital recorders for long-term studies of tropical, temperate, and arctic animals

生物学家可以记录和监测野生动物发出的声音，以了解它们的运动模式、繁殖活动和种群规模。我们寻求NSERC支持16野生动物声学歌曲米（可编程数字录音机与高精度时间同步）。这些记录器与首席研究员的研究实验室开发的新软件相配合，将允许对自由生活的动物进行长期的声学和空间监测。该设备将用于记录生活在加拿大北极地区、加拿大南部和热带濒危生态系统的动物。该研究将为不同环境中动物的生态学和进化生物学提供新的认识，并为监测动物和调查生物多样性提供新的研究方法。

Biologists can record and monitor the sounds that wild animals produce to gain insight into their movement patterns, reproductive activities, and population sizes. We seek NSERC support for 16 Wildlife Acoustics Song Meters (programmable digital recorders with high accuracy time synchronization). In concert with new software developed in the lead investigator's research laboratory, these recorders will permit long-term acoustic and spatial monitoring of free-living animals. The equipment will be used to record animals living in the Canadian arctic, in southern Canada, and endangered ecosystems in the tropics. The research will shed new light on the ecology and evolutionary biology of animals in different environments, and provide new research methods for monitoring animals and surveying biodiversity.