From buzzes to bytes: A systematic review of automated bioacoustics models used to detect, classify, and monitor insects

Insects play vital ecological roles; many provide essential ecosystem services while others are economically devastating pests and disease vectors. Concerns over insect population declines and expansion have generated a pressing need to effectively monitor insects across broad spatial and temporal scales. A promising new approach is bioacoustics, which uses sound to study ecological communities. Despite recent increases in machine learning technologies, the status of emerging automated bioacoustics methods for monitoring insects is not well known, limiting potential applications.
To address this gap, we systematically review the effectiveness of automated bioacoustics models over the past four decades, analyzing 176 studies that met our inclusion criteria. We describe their strengths and limitations compared to traditional methods and propose productive avenues forward.
We found automated bioacoustics models for 302 insect species distributed across nine Orders. Studies used intentional..., , , # From buzzes to bytes: A systematic review of automated bioacoustics models used to detect, classify, and monitor insects

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.hmgqnk9r1](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.hmgqnk9r1)

The following files correspond to the results from a systematic review of automated bioacoustics models used to detect, classify, and monitor insects.

## Description of the data and file structure

This submission contains five CSV files required for analyses and one R script:

1\) **data_extraction_metadata**, which provides metadata information for each study evaluated, such as title, author, journal, and language.

Details:

duplication_flagged (whether this was likely a duplicate article already present in the dataset),

article_ID (individual article), 

inclusion (included yes/no data from this article),

exclusion_criteria (if excluded, what was the reason why),

exclusion_insect_clumped (if excluded because the aggregate of insects were clumped into a single category that w...