BarbaraDeLoreto/bird-acoustic-ghana

# Bird Acoustic — Ghana Cocoa Agroforestry This repository contains R scripts and plots for a study comparing two bird biodiversity detection methods — traditional point-count surveys and passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) using audio recorders processed through BirdNET-Analyzer — across cocoa agroforestry plots in southwestern Ghana. The central research question is whether BirdNET recovers the same ecological relationship between shade-tree cover and bird species richness as traditional surveys. This is a project as part of QBIO7008 subject for a Master of Quntitative Biology ## Repository Structure bird-acoustic-ghana/ Scripts/ - BirdNET_output.R # BirdNET batch processing script - Bird_accoustic_richness.R # Main richness analysis script - Species_composition.R # Species composition analysis - Investigating_issues_missing_species # same analysis but without the species Plots # All figures generated by the analysis\ Outputs # Files created as part of the scrips some intermediary to the analysis and outhers are results outputs README.md ## Data Data files are not included in this repository due to file size and data ownership. Make sure you update the scripts for the correct file paths You will need access to the data to run the script. ## How to Run Run scripts in the following order: 1. BirdNET output 2. Birs Acoustic Richness 3. Species Composition 4. Investigating Issues Missing species ## Contact Barbara Oliveira de Loreto University of Queensland — subject QBIO7008