The Use of Acoustic Indices to Investigate Avian Biodiversity in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine.xlsx

The accompanying Excel spreadsheet contains the raw data for the research project titled “The Use of Acoustic Indices to Investigate Avian Biodiversity in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine.”This study aimed to assess avian biodiversity by calculating acoustic indices from audio recordings collected within the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone. The objective was to identify which environmental and temporal variables significantly influenced patterns in avian acoustic activity.To achieve this, a Generalised Linear Mixed Model (GLMM) was applied to four distinct acoustic indices. The model evaluated the influence of the following variables:Total estimated absorbed dose rateTime of daySeasonHabitat typeAlthough the published paper excluded certain files due to environmental noise, all 3,456 original recordings are included in this dataset to ensure transparency and reproducibility.A README file has been provided to support the acoustic indices dataset.