Acoustic monitoring data from woodland, grassland and rewilding sites in Scotland and England, 2021-2022

This data gives acoustic index values for recordings collected in 60 broadleaved woodland restoration sites in Central Scotland (n=30) and the English Midlands (n=30), as well as 18 grassland sites in southern England. Additionally, there are recordings from 6 wildcard sites, made up of ancient woodlands (2 in Scotland and 2 in England) and rewilding sites (2 in England). There were three deployments of acoustic recorders between July 2021 and April 2022. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/33b6dea2-94c5-4e33-a1b3-9a6bd1c8776a

Date (Publication): 2025-07-21

Date (Creation): 2025-02-03

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/33b6dea2-94c5-4e33-a1b3-9a6bd1c8776a

Citation identifier: doi: / 10.5285/33b6dea2-94c5-4e33-a1b3-9a6bd1c8776a

Other citation details: Barnett, R., Waddell, E., Fuentes-Montemayor, E., Watts, K., Guy, M., Park, K.J. (2025). Acoustic monitoring data from woodland, grassland and rewilding sites in Scotland and England, 2021-2022. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/33b6dea2-94c5-4e33-a1b3-9a6bd1c8776a

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University of Stirling	Barnett, R.	r.j.barnett@stir.ac.uk	Author
University of Stirling	Barnett, R.	r.j.barnett@stir.ac.uk	Point of contact
University of Stirling	Waddell, E.	emily.waddell@stir.ac.uk	Author
University of Stirling	Fuentes-Montemayor, E.	elisa.fuentes-montemayor@stir.ac.uk	Author
Forest Research	Watts, K.	kevin.watts@forestresearch.gov.uk	Author
Forest Research	Guy, M.	matt.guy@forestresearch.gov.uk	Author
University of Stirling	Park, K.J.	k.j.park@stir.ac.uk	Author
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre		info@eidc.ac.uk	Custodian
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre		info@eidc.ac.uk	Publisher
University of Stirling		EMAIL NOT PROVIDED	Owner

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Environmental survey
woodland creation
broadleaved woodland
ecoacoustics
soundscape ecology

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Other constraints: If you reuse this data, you should cite: Barnett, R., Waddell, E., Fuentes-Montemayor, E., Watts, K., Guy, M., Park, K.J. (2025). Acoustic monitoring data from woodland, grassland and rewilding sites in Scotland and England, 2021-2022. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/33b6dea2-94c5-4e33-a1b3-9a6bd1c8776a

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Language: English

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Begin date: 2021-07-01

End date: 2022-04-30

Unique resource identifier: OSGB 1936 / British National Grid

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Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Statement: At each site, AudioMoth acoustic recorders were deployed for one week per deployment. The 30 woodlands in Scotland were surveyed in a first deployment between July and August 2021, and a second deployment in September 2021. All 84 sites across Scotland and England were surveyed in the third deployment in April 2021. The same settings were used for each deployment; a sample rate of 48kHz was used, and AudioMoths recorded for 9 minutes and 55 seconds, then slept for 5 seconds, allowing nearly continuous recording throughout the week-long deployment. The recordings were then analysed using R to calculate the following acoustic indices in the packages seewave and soundecology. • Acoustic complexity index (ACI) • Acoustic diversity index (ADI) • Acoustic Evenness (AEve) • Bioacoustic Index (Bio) • Frequency Peaks (FP) • Temporal Entropy (Ht) • Spectral Entropy (Hf) • Total Entropy (H) • Median of the Amplitude Envelope (M) • Normalised Difference Soundscape Index (NDSI) Additionally, Acoustic Richness (AR) was calculated, using the Ht and M indices.

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Date stamp: 2025-11-13T16:20:22

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