监测人口对于了解他们如何应对人为干扰和管理保护区至关重要。无源声学监测的使用可以改进监测工作,因为它允许在空间和时间尺度上收集关于声音动物的数据,这仅仅使用人类观察者是困难的。在这项研究中,我们使用了多季节入住模型来监测发生情况,明显的灭绝,以及北部黄颊长臂猿的殖民概率,通过从Dakrong自然保护区的移动智能手机收集的声学数据,越南。2019年和2022年随机选择45个地点进行重复调查。在每个站点,移动智能手机连接到一棵树上,记录声音平均为4.2天和3.89天,分别于2019年和2022年。我们手动注释了长臂猿叫声的频谱图,我们在2019年和2022年分别在24个和12个录音职位上检测到长臂猿。估计占用模型造成的局部明显灭绝很高,2019年67%的被占用地点在2022年变得无人居住。表观定殖率很低,2019年约25%的无人居住地点在2022年被占领。因此,视发生概率从2019年的0.58下降至2022年的0.30。如果没有呼叫表明细胞没有被占用,这将意味着自然保护区中长臂猿数量的惊人下降。我们建议在狩猎压力大的地区,监测间隔应缩短至至少每年一次。此外,紧急行动,比如巡逻,或者没收枪支,应实施以保护Dakrong自然保护区和其他具有相同管理环境的保护区中的长臂猿种群。
Monitoring populations is critical for understanding how they respond to anthropogenic disturbance and for management of protected areas. The use of passive acoustic monitoring can improve monitoring efforts as it allows for collection of data on vocal animals at spatial and temporal scales that are difficult using only human observers. In this study, we used a multiseason occupancy model to monitor occurrence, apparent extinction, and colonization probabilities of a northern yellow-cheeked
gibbon, Nomascus annamensis population with acoustic data collected from mobile smartphones in Dakrong Nature Reserve, Vietnam. Forty-five sites were randomly selected for repeated surveys in 2019 and 2022. At each site, a mobile smartphone was attached to a tree and recorded sounds for 4.2 days and 3.89 days on average, in 2019 and 2022, respectively. We manually annotated spectrograms for the presence of
gibbon calls, and we detected gibbons at 24 and 12 recording posts in 2019 and 2022, respectively. Estimated local apparent extinction from occupancy models was high with 67% of occupied sites in 2019 becoming unoccupied in 2022. Apparent colonization was low with ~25% of unoccupied sites in 2019 becoming occupied in 2022. As a result, the apparent occurrence probability declined from 0.58 in 2019 to 0.30 in 2022. If the absence of calls indicates that cells are unoccupied this would mean an alarming decline of the
gibbon population in the nature reserve. We suggest that in the areas with high hunting pressure, monitoring intervals should be shortened to at least yearly. In addition, urgent actions, such as patrolling, or gun confiscation, should be implemented to conserve the
gibbon populations in Dakrong Nature Reserve and other protected areas with the same management context.