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Data and code for: Acoustic monitoring enables multi-taxa conservation assessment and prioritisation over large scales and for rare and cryptic species

Ashton-Butt, Adham1; Newson, Stuart1; Gillings, Simon1; Atkinson, Phillip1; Doser, Jeffrey2; Fenchuk, Viktar3; Kornienko, Tatiana4; Pearce-Higgins, James1

Published Dec 19, 2025 on Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.kd51c5bj3

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Abstract

This dataset contains the raw occurrence and acoustic activity (detections/night) of nocturnally active species surveyed in Ukrainian and Belarusian Polesia by passive acoustic monitoring, and associated landcover and metadata, from over 500 sites. This dataset was collected using Wildlife Acoustics SM4 FS acoustic recorders and processed using BTO machine-learning classifiers. The presence of each species and a minimum of 100 detections per species/per site was manually verified (unless there were fewer detections). The code provided is for the occupancy and abundance models for describing and predicting the distribution of these species over the region of Polesia. These data provide the foundation for assessing protected area coverage and efficacy in Polesia.