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Opportunities and challenges for monitoring terrestrial biodiversity in the robotics age

dc.contributor.authorPringle, Stephen
dc.contributor.authorDallimer, Martin
dc.contributor.authorGoddard, Mark A.
dc.contributor.authorLe Goff, Léni K.
dc.contributor.authorHart, Emma
dc.contributor.authorLangdale, Simon J.
dc.contributor.authorFisher, Jessica C.
dc.contributor.authorAbad, Sara-Adela
dc.contributor.authorAncrenaz, Marc
dc.contributor.authorAngeoletto, Fabio
dc.contributor.authorAuat Cheein, Fernando
dc.contributor.authorAusten, Gail E.
dc.contributor.authorBailey, Joseph J.
dc.contributor.authorBaldock, Katherine C. R.
dc.contributor.authorBanin, Lindsay F.
dc.contributor.authorBanks-Leite, Cristina
dc.contributor.authorBarau, Aliyu S.
dc.contributor.authorBashyal, Reshu
dc.contributor.authorBates, Adam J.
dc.contributor.authorBicknell, Jake E.
dc.contributor.authorBielby, Jon
dc.contributor.authorBosilj, Petra
dc.contributor.authorBush, Emma R.
dc.contributor.authorButler, Simon J.
dc.contributor.authorCarpenter, Dan
dc.contributor.authorClements, Christopher F.
dc.contributor.authorCully, Antoine
dc.contributor.authorDavies, Kendi F.
dc.contributor.authorDeere, Nicolas J.
dc.contributor.authorDodd, Michael
dc.contributor.authorDrinkwater, Rosie
dc.contributor.authorDriscoll, Don A.
dc.contributor.authorDutilleux, Guillaume
dc.contributor.authorDyrmann, Mads
dc.contributor.authorEdwards, David P.
dc.contributor.authorFarhadinia, Mohammad S.
dc.contributor.authorFaruk, Aisyah
dc.contributor.authorField, Richard
dc.contributor.authorFletcher, Robert J.
dc.contributor.authorFoster, Chris W.
dc.contributor.authorFox, Richard
dc.contributor.authorFrancksen, Richard M.
dc.contributor.authorFranco, Aldina M. A.
dc.contributor.authorGainsbury, Alison M.
dc.contributor.authorGardner, Charlie J.
dc.contributor.authorGiorgi, Ioanna
dc.contributor.authorGriffiths, Richard A.
dc.contributor.authorHamaza, Salua
dc.contributor.authorHanheide, Marc
dc.contributor.authorHayward, Matt W.
dc.contributor.authorHedblom, Marcus
dc.contributor.authorHelgason, Thorunn
dc.contributor.authorHeon, Sui P.
dc.contributor.authorHughes, Kevin A.
dc.contributor.authorHunt, Edmund R.
dc.contributor.authorIngram, Daniel J.
dc.contributor.authorJackson Mills, George
dc.contributor.authorJowett, Kelly
dc.contributor.authorKeitt, Timothy H.
dc.contributor.authorKloepper, Laura N.
dc.contributor.authorKramer Schadt, Stephanie
dc.contributor.authorLabisko, Jim
dc.contributor.authorLabrosse, Frédéric
dc.contributor.authorLawson, Jenna
dc.contributor.authorLecomte, Nicolas
dc.contributor.authorde Lima, Ricardo F.
dc.contributor.authorLittlewood, Nick A.
dc.contributor.authorMarshall, Harry H.
dc.contributor.authorMasala, Giovanni L.
dc.contributor.authorMaskell, Lindsay C.
dc.contributor.authorMatechou, Eleni
dc.contributor.authorMazzolai, Barbara
dc.contributor.authorMcConnell, Alistair
dc.contributor.authorMelbourne, Brett A.
dc.contributor.authorMiriyev, Aslan
dc.contributor.authorNana, Eric Djomo
dc.contributor.authorOssola, Alessandro
dc.contributor.authorPapworth, Sarah
dc.contributor.authorParr, Catherine L.
dc.contributor.authorPayo Payo, Ana
dc.contributor.authorPerry, Gad
dc.contributor.authorPettorelli, Nathalie
dc.contributor.authorPillay, Rajeev
dc.contributor.authorPotts, Simon G.
dc.contributor.authorPrendergast Miller, Miranda T.
dc.contributor.authorQie, Lan
dc.contributor.authorRolley Parnell, Persie
dc.contributor.authorRossiter, Stephen J.
dc.contributor.authorRowcliffe, Marcus
dc.contributor.authorRumble, Heather
dc.contributor.authorSadler, Jon P.
dc.contributor.authorSandom, Christopher J.
dc.contributor.authorSanyal, Asiem
dc.contributor.authorSchrodt, Franziska
dc.contributor.authorSethi, Sarab S.
dc.contributor.authorShabrani, Adi
dc.contributor.authorSiddall, Robert
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Simón C.
dc.contributor.authorSnep, Robbert P. H.
dc.contributor.authorSoulsbury, Carl D.
dc.contributor.authorStanley, Margaret C.
dc.contributor.authorStephens, Philip A.
dc.contributor.authorStephenson, P. J.
dc.contributor.authorStruebig, Matthew J.
dc.contributor.authorStudley, Matthew
dc.contributor.authorSvátek, Martin
dc.contributor.authorTang, Gilbert
dc.contributor.authorTaylor, Nicholas K.
dc.contributor.authorUmbers, Kate D. L.
dc.contributor.authorWard, Robert J.
dc.contributor.authorWhite, Patrick J. C.
dc.contributor.authorWhittingham, Mark J.
dc.contributor.authorWich, Serge
dc.contributor.authorWilliams, Christopher D.
dc.contributor.authorYakubu, Ibrahim B.
dc.contributor.authorYoh, Natalie
dc.contributor.authorZaidi, Syed A. R.
dc.contributor.authorZmarz, Anna
dc.contributor.authorZwerts, Joeri A.
dc.contributor.authorDavies, Zoe G.
dc.date.accessioned2025-08-08T08:38:38Z
dc.date.available2025-08-08T08:38:38Z
dc.date.issued2025-05
dc.descriptionThis work was funded by the EPSRC UK-RAS Network. D.J.I. is funded by a UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship (grant ref: MR/W006316/1), and Z.G.D. and J.C.F. were supported by Research England’s ‘Expanding Excellence in England’ fund.
dc.description.abstractWith biodiversity loss escalating globally, a step change is needed in our capacity to accurately monitor species populations across ecosystems. Robotic and autonomous systems (RAS) offer technological solutions that may substantially advance terrestrial biodiversity monitoring, but this potential is yet to be considered systematically. We used a modified Delphi technique to synthesize knowledge from 98 biodiversity experts and 31 RAS experts, who identified the major methodological barriers that currently hinder monitoring, and explored the opportunities and challenges that RAS offer in overcoming these barriers. Biodiversity experts identified four barrier categories: site access, species and individual identification, data handling and storage, and power and network availability. Robotics experts highlighted technologies that could overcome these barriers and identified the developments needed to facilitate RAS-based autonomous biodiversity monitoring. Some existing RAS could be optimized relatively easily to survey species but would require development to be suitable for monitoring of more ‘difficult’ taxa and robust enough to work under uncontrolled conditions within ecosystems. Other nascent technologies (for instance, new sensors and biodegradable robots) need accelerated research. Overall, it was felt that RAS could lead to major progress in monitoring of terrestrial biodiversity by supplementing rather than supplanting existing methods. Transdisciplinarity needs to be fostered between biodiversity and RAS experts so that future ideas and technologies can be codeveloped effectively.
dc.description.departmentDepto. de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución
dc.description.facultyFac. de Ciencias Biológicas
dc.description.refereedTRUE
dc.description.sponsorshipEPSRC UK-RAS Network
dc.description.sponsorshipUK Research and Innovation
dc.description.statuspub
dc.identifier.citationPringle, S., Dallimer, M., Goddard, M.A. et al. Opportunities and challenges for monitoring terrestrial biodiversity in the robotics age. Nat Ecol Evol 9, 1031–1042 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02704-9
dc.identifier.doi10.1038/s41559-025-02704-9
dc.identifier.issn2397-334X
dc.identifier.officialurlhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02704-9
dc.identifier.relatedurlhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-025-02704-9
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/123151
dc.issue.number6
dc.journal.titleNature Ecology and Evolution
dc.language.isoeng
dc.page.final1042
dc.page.initial1031
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.accessRightsopen access
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject.cdu502.1
dc.subject.cdu004.89
dc.subject.cdu57.08
dc.subject.cdu574
dc.subject.ucmEcología (Biología)
dc.subject.ucmMedio ambiente natural
dc.subject.ucmBioinformática
dc.subject.ucmRobótica
dc.subject.unesco2410.05 Ecología Humana
dc.subject.unesco3311.01 Tecnología de la Automatización
dc.subject.unesco3308 Ingeniería y Tecnología del Medio Ambiente
dc.titleOpportunities and challenges for monitoring terrestrial biodiversity in the robotics age
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