Hello all,

I’m excited to share a new GitHub resource: Ecoacoustic Evidence, a living, evidence-based guide for ecoacoustic survey and monitoring methods.

I've spent the weekend developing this guide, based upon recommendations previously published in the Guidelines for Long-Term Ecoacoustic Monitoring and the UK Bird Survey Guidelines: Acoustic Survey Methods. The project is inspired by the approach of Conservation Evidence — breaking down and synthesizing scientific research into accessible, practical guidance.

What’s in the guide:

• Recorder Deployment: Evidence-based recommendations for programming and field deployment of automated acoustic recorders. This section is fairly comprehensive, though it was developed a couple of years ago and is currently in need of some updates.
• Metadata: Guidance on recording contextual information alongside acoustic data. This section has just been started and is far from complete.
• Data Analysis: Recommendations for processing and analyzing recordings, including acoustic indices and species detection. This section is also only a start, and hardly scratches the surface of this topic.

Why this matters:
Ecoacoustics is a rapidly developing field, and while some guidance exists, much of it is static and is unlikely to be updated with emerging best practices. This repository is intended as a community-driven, living resource, where contributions from practitioners and researchers can help refine and expand the guidance.

Contributions welcome:
If you have relevant literature, evidence, or experience to share — especially for the metadata and data analysis sections — please contribute via GitHub or email me at [email protected]. All contributions will be acknowledged.

Link to the guide: https://github.com/carlosabrahams/Ecoacoustic_Evidence

Thanks in advance for your input. I hope that this project will allow us to build a stronger, evidence-based foundation for ecoacoustic monitoring.

Carlos