LIFEPLAN Bavarian-National-Forest - Global audio and image collection on biodiversity

This dataset contains raw image and audio data collected by team Bavarian-National-Forest in the LIFEPLAN project. Researchers collected data at 2 sites in Germany. Sampling alternated yearly between a Natural type site and an Urban type site. We deployed first 5 and later 3 AudioMoth recorders and camera traps per site. Data collection started in 2021 and ended in 2025. Data were collected year-round as far as possible.

This dataset contains 365.1 GB and 181189 files of image data, as well as 5355.48 GB and 743488 files of audio data, which is equivalent to about 900047 minutes of recording.

LIFEPLAN project is described in detail in: Hardwick B, Kerdraon D, Rogers HMK, Raharinjanahary D, Rajoelison ET, Mononen T, et al. (2024) LIFEPLAN: A worldwide biodiversity sampling design. PLoS ONE 19(12): e0313353. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0313353.

Audio recording protocol is described in detail in: Arielle M Farrell, Gaia Giedre Banelyte, Hanna M.K. Rogers, Petteri Lehikoinen, Deirdre Kerdraon, Bess Hardwick 2024. Lifeplan Audio Recording Protocol. protocols.io https://dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.kqdg3xbp1g25/v2.

Camera trapping protocol is described in detail in: Hanna M.K. Rogers, Gaia Giedre Banelyte, Arielle M Farrell, Bess Hardwick, Tommi Mononen, Deirdre Kerdraon 2023. Lifeplan Camera Trapping Protocol. protocols.io https://dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.q26g7pxp1gwz/v3