Understanding the ecology of boreal birds through automated soundscape analysis

声音是一个无处不在的像理想的自由与专制的选择，丰富的中心假设，范围物候转移北方森林鸣禽。测试所有这些理论需要决策者对紧迫的大规模保护问题所需的准确密度和空间使用。栖息地选择是生态学中研究最多的过程之一，也是应用保护和理论生物学的核心。然而，大多数研究人员目前使用的方法往往强调鸟类的局部规模模式如何根据人类足迹和植被而变化。我们的工作通过研究栖息地选择的变化和物种之间的相互作用来推进这一范式，这些物种之间的相互作用可能会随着时间的推移而改变大规模的栖息地选择模式，而这只能通过ARU来实现。 HQP是我研究计划的核心。在过去的6年里，我为200多名HQP提供了机会。我预计下一个周期将有类似数量的学生接受培训。我的计划的成功取决于开发一个强有力的协调系统的合作学生项目，单独是独特的，但当整合提供更大的机会，揭示行为，人口，社区和景观生态学的基本见解。正如我的出版记录和过去学生的就业能力所证明的那样，这种方法创造了在应用和理论生态学方面都具有能力的全面发展的个人。DG计划提供了关键的资金，使我的学生能够扩大应用工作，以测试有关生态理论的具体假设和在不同空间尺度上驱动鸟类多样性模式的过程。

Sound is a ubiquitous like ideal free vs. despotic selection, abundant centre hypothesis, range-phenology shifts boreal forest songbirds. Testing all of these theories requires accurate density, space use ation needed by decision makers about pressing large-scale conservation issues. Habitat selection is one of the most studied processes in ecology and is central to applied conservation and theoretical biology. However, current approaches used by most researchers tend to emphasize how local scale patterns of birds vary based on human footprint & vegetation. Our work advances this paradigm by studying variation in habitat selection & the interactions between species that may alter patterns of habitat selection at large scales & over time that are only possible through ARUs. HQP are central to my research program. In the past 6 years I have provided opportunities to over 200 HQP. I foresee similar numbers of students being trained in the next cycle. The success of my program is dependent on developing a strongly-coordinated system of collaborative student projects that individually are unique but when integrated provide greater opportunities to reveal fundamental insights into behavioral, population, community & landscape ecology. As evidenced by my publication record and the employability of past students, this approach creates well-rounded individuals with competencies in both applied and theoretical ecology. The DG program provides critical funds that allow my students to expand applied work to test specific hypotheses about ecological theory and the processes that drive patterns of avian diversity at different spatial scales.