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. 2021 Nov 2;12:6217. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-26488-1

Fig. 5. Trends in community structure and soundscape characteristics.

Fig. 5

The association between site-level in trends in the total number of species and the total number of individuals in 202737 NA-BBS sites across North America (left column) and in 16524 PECBMS sites across Europe (right column). Colours indicate site-level trends in Acoustic Diversity Index, ADI (a, b), Acoustic Evenness Index, AEI (c, d) Bioacoustic Index, BI (e, f) and Acoustic Entropy, H (g, h) (yellow—improving soundscape quality; blue—declining soundscape quality); note the colour scheme is reversed for AEI, as positive trends are taken to represent a reduction in soundscape quality for this metric. Site-level trends are derived from changes in standardised annual values of each acoustic index, total number of species, and total number of individuals.