About
This site is a place to document the development of an open source, purpose-built preamplifier to be used in soil ecoacoustic research. The documentation takes the shape of a series of articles explaining the design process involved in designing the circuitry, strategies for troubleshooting issues and mroe. The content is written from the perspective of someone that didn’t know almost anything about the topic before starting. Therefore, the guide is meant to help other complete beginners navigate a complex task and hopefully it will help others avoid making the same mistakes.
Soil ecoacoustic research
Section titled “Soil ecoacoustic research”Ecoacoustics is a multidisciplinary field that uses environmental sound as a material to understand ecological metrics such as biodiversity, habitat health and frequency competition (Farina & Gage, 2017). The same theories and methods apply to soil ecology. For example, researchers have measured belowground sound to monitor soil biodiversity in terms of fauna (Robinson et al., 2024) or to aid in forest restoration (Robinson et al., 2023).
Context
Section titled “Context”This project is the outcome of the work done in an Intership period at Malmö University under the supervision of PhD David Aleklett Kadish. Unless specified, it can be assumed that the content has been written and/or edited by Filippo De Togni. References to sources are formatted in APA 7th.
References
Section titled “References”- Farina, A., & Gage, S. H. (2017). Ecoacoustics: A New Science. In A. Farina & S. H. Gage (Eds.), Ecoacoustics (1st ed., pp. 1–11). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119230724.ch1
- Robinson, J. M., Breed, M. F., & Abrahams, C. (2023). The sound of restored soil: Using ecoacoustics to measure soil biodiversity in a temperate forest restoration context. Restoration Ecology, 31(5), e13934. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.13934
- Robinson, J. M., Annells, A., Cavagnaro, T. R., Liddicoat, C., Rogers, H., Taylor, A., & Breed, M. F. (2024). Monitoring soil fauna with ecoacoustics. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 291(2030), 20241595. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.1595