Automated Beehive Acoustics Monitoring: A Comprehensive Review of the Literature and Recommendations for Future Work
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Abstract
Bees play an important role in agriculture and ecology, and their pollination efficiency is essential to the economic profitability of farms. The drastic decrease in bee populations witnessed over the last decade has attracted great attention to automated remote beehive monitoring research, with beehive acoustics analysis emerging as a prominent field. In this paper, we review the existing literature on bee acoustics analysis and report on the articles published between January 2012 and December 2021. Five categories are explored in further detail, including the origin of the articles, their study goal, experimental setup, audio analysis methodology, and reproducibility. Highlights and limitations in each of these categories are presented and discussed. We conclude with a set of recommendations for future studies, with suggestions ranging from bee species characterization, to recording and testing setup descriptions, to making data and codes available to help advance this new multidisciplinary field.
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OpenAlex topics: Plant and animal studies · Insect and Pesticide Research · Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
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INRS-EMT, University of Quebec, 800 Rue de la Gauchetiere Ouest, Montreal, QC H5A 1K6, Canada
Faculty of Science and Engineering, Biology Department, Laval University, 2325 rue de l’Universite, Quebec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada
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Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
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