dB@risoux dataset: A full year of 1-min soundscapes recorded in a cold temperate forest in France

This dataset contains 35 023 1-min audio recordings (i.e. soundscapes) collected in a temperate cold climax forest locally named ‘Risoux’ during the year 2019 (1 min every 15 min, day and night). The forest is located in the East of France in the Jura Mountains at the Swiss border (46°31'60.0"N 6°05'03.8"E ). The forest soundscape was recorded using one automatic SongMeter 4 recorders (Wildlife Acoustics Inc, Concord, MA, USA). The recorder was installed in the Risoux Forest central zone.

The composition of the soundscapes is a mix of biophony (mostly birds, but also insects and bellowing deer), geophony (e.g. rain and wind) and technophony (e.g. planes, chainsaws and possibly some gun shots and sheep bells)

This dataset is part of a long term monitoring of the Risoux forest started in July 2018. Four SongMeter 4 recorders were installed across the Risoux Forest central zone, along a West–East axis. The distance between the recorders was 1.00 ± 0.10 km. The position of the recorders was chosen to (1) cover the forest area, (2) sample a single habitat defined by the dominance of the European spruce, (3) avoid pseudo-replication between neighboring recorders, and (4) avoid technophony noise due to car traffic and local activities. This dataset was recorded by the recorder number 3.

This work was supported by the Parc Naturel Régional du Haut-Jura who received funding from the Région Bourgogne-Franche-Comté