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A stethoscope for the rainforest

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Using Animal Sounds to Measure Ecosystems

This chapter explores the method of using animal sounds to measure ecosystems, highlighting its advantages such as standardization and cost-effectiveness. The hosts discuss the challenge of identifying species in tropical rainforests and the approach they took to overcome it, using acoustic indices to analyze recordings and measure biodiversity. They also discuss a study conducted in Ecuador to analyze the change in sound saturation over time in recovering rainforests.

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