This KINABALURECORDERreadme.txt file was generated on 2021-08-23 by Catharina Karlsson GENERAL INFORMATION 1. Title of Dataset: Acoustic index, temperature and barometric pressure analysis for the Kinabalu Recorder 2. Author Information A. Principal Investigator Contact Information Name: Catharina Karlsson Institution: Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden Address: Menglun, Mengla, Yunnan Province, PR China Email: catharina@catharinakarlsson.com B. Associate or Co-investigator Contact Information Name: Harold Tay Institution: Stand Up Labs Address: 61 St Patrick’s Road, 424174 Singapore Email: htarold@gmail.com C. Alternate Contact Information Name: Alice Hughes Institution: Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden Address: Menglun, Mengla, Yunnan Province, PR China Email: ach_conservation2@hotmail.com 3. Date of data collection: 2019-12-10 - 2020-10-05 4. Geographic location of data collection: 6° 9' 25.2'' N, 116° 38' 16.8'' E, Kinabalu Park, Sabah, Malaysia 5. Information about funding sources that supported the collection of the data: This work was supported by the PIFI fellowship with associated research funding as well as Chinese Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant #: Y2BSH11B21) awarded to ECMK as well as funds from the Chinese National Natural Science Foundation (Grant #: U1602265), Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant #: XDA20050202), High-End Foreign Experts Program of Yunnan Province (Grant #:Y9YN021B01), Chinese Academy of Sciences Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Center fund (Grant #: Y4ZK111B01), SEABA: Southeast Asian Atlas of Biodiversity (Grant #: Y5ZK121B01), and Mapping Karst Biodiversity in Yunnan (Grant #: Y7GJ021B01). SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION 1. Licenses/restrictions placed on the data: 2. Links to publications that cite or use the data: https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13671 3. Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data: 4. Links/relationships to ancillary data sets: 5. Was data derived from another source? no 6. Recommended citation for this dataset: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.q83bk3jj0 DATA & FILE OVERVIEW 1. File List: a) SortedDateAcoustcIndexPub.csv - Data used for acoustic index analysis b) AcousticIndex2.R - R code file for analysis 2. Relationship between files, if important: file a is needed as input for file b 3. Additional related data collected that was not included in the current data package: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4925467 (software code for the recorder) 4. Are there multiple versions of the dataset? no METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION 1. Description of methods used for collection/generation of data: See, "The Kinabalu Recorder, a new passive acoustic and environmental monitoring recorder": https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13671 2. Methods for processing the data: The acoustic indices were extracted from the raw wav files 3. Instrument- or software-specific information needed to interpret the data: R 3.6.1, packages required: data.table, MuMIn,ggplot2, gridExtra, ggpubr, sjPlot,me4 4. Standards and calibration information, if appropriate: Temperature is in celsius, barometric pressure in Pa (pascal) 5. Environmental/experimental conditions: Natural 6. Describe any quality-assurance procedures performed on the data: 7. People involved with sample collection, processing, analysis and/or submission: DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR: SortedDateAcoustcIndexPub.csv 1. Number of variables: 9 2. Number of cases/rows: 28357 3. Variable List: Bioacoustics index: from the function bioacoustic_index() in R package soundecology. Normalised difference index from the function NDSI in R package sewage. Habitat: ether Cloud forest (1800-3000 m asl) or Fagacea (1300-1800 m asl) Temperature: in celsius Pressure: barometric pressure in pascal Month: month given in number from 3 (March) to 9 (September) Site: site the data was recorded from, 12 sites in total ("BUKUL = Bukit Ular" "BULST = Bukit Ular Sream" "KAMBO = Kamborangah" "LAYAN = Layan Layan" "LIWST = Liwagu Stream" "LIWUP = Liwagu Upper" "LUMUL = Lumu Lunu" "MEMPE = Mempenang" "MEPOW = Mempenang Power Trail" "SILOW = Silau Silau Lower" "SLWST = Silau Silau Lower Stream" "SUPST = Silau Silau Upper Stream") postime: time the data was recorded with date fixed DateTime2: Date without time present 4. Missing data codes: NA 5. Specialized formats or other abbreviations used: