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Academic editor: Therese Catanach
Received: 02 Aug 2015 | Accepted: 02 Sep 2015 | Published: 02 Sep 2015
© 2015 Ed Baker, Benjamin Price, Simon Rycroft, Martin Villet
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Baker E, Price B, Rycroft S, Villet M (2015) Global Cicada Sound Collection I: Recordings from South Africa and Malawi by B. W. Price & M. H. Villet and harvesting of BioAcoustica data by GBIF. Biodiversity Data Journal 3: e5792. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e5792
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Sound collections for singing insects provide important repositories that underpin existing research (e.g.
This collection of sounds includes 219 recordings of 133 voucher specimens, comprising 42 taxa (25 identified to species, all identified to genus) from South Africa and Malawi. The recordings have been used to underpin work on the species limits of cicadas in southern Africa, including
The harvesting of acoustic data as occurrence records by GBIF has been implemented by the Scratchpads Team at the Natural History Museum, London. This link increases the value of individual recordings and the BioAcoustica platform within the global infrastructure of biodiversity informatics by making specimen/occurence records from BioAcoustica available to a wider audience, and allowing their integration with other occurence datasets that also contribute to GBIF.
bioacoustics, BioAcoustica, Cicadidae, acoustic recording, Malawi, South Africa, GBIF
BioAcoustica (
Sound collections which include some Cicada recordings include the Macaulay Library, Cornell Lab of Ornithology (http://macaulaylibrary.org/: 148 recordings), the Animal Sound Archive of the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin (http://www.animalsoundarchive.org/: 11 recordings) and Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Audio_files_of_Cicadidae: 13 recordings). In addition while region specific cicada sound collections do exist (Table
Geographic extent | Title | Link | Recordings |
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North America | Insect Singers | http://www.insectsingers.com/ | 112 |
North America | Cicada Mania | http://www.cicadamania.com/audio/ | 60 |
Michigan | Cicadas of Michigan | http://insects.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/fauna/Michigan_Cicadas/Michigan/Index.html | 15 |
South East Asia | Phantastic songs of the S.E.Asian cicadas! | http://www2.arnes.si/~ljprirodm3/asian_cicadas.html | 7 |
Japan and Korea | Cicadidae in Japan | http://homepage2.nifty.com/saisho/cicadasongaac_e.html | 148 |
Borneo | Cicada songs from Borneo | http://www.groms.de/data/zoology/riede/cicada.html | 5 |
Europe | Songs of European Singing Cicadas | http://www.cicadasong.eu/ | 74 |
Slovenia, Croatia and Macedonia | Songs of Cicadas from Slovenia, Croatia and Macedonia | http://www2.arnes.si/~ljprirodm3/cikade.html | 12 |
Australia | A web guide to the cicadas of Australia | http://dr-pop.net/cicadas.htm | 351 |
We have used the BioAcoustica platform to start creating an online, freely accessible, openly licensed and global resource for anybody interested in the bioacoustics of cicadas: the Global Cicada Sound Collection (GCSC). The collection of recordings made by Price, Villet and collaborators of southern African Cicadidae is the first collection to be made available through the GCSC project. We are currently working with other collaborators internationally to make their collections available. As the GCSC will include multiple collections, made available over a long time period, individual collaborators will be publishing data papers on their contributions as they are made available (if they choose to do so). This method allows for the entire collection to be made available for research while preserving the credit of contributors through granular citation of contributions.
The use of the BioAcoustica platform allows for recordings to be shared with the Encyclopedia of Life (
Digitising Southern African Cicada Sounds for the Global Cicada Sound Collection
Field recordings were made by Benjamin W. Price, M. H. Villet and others between 2006 and 2008. The collection was prepared for online availability by Ed Baker.
Funding for making the recordings available online was obtained by Price, Baker & Vincent S. Smith as part of the Natural History Museum Departmental Investment Fund (DIF) award SDF 14011. The recordings were made on fieldwork funded by Rhodes University (grant number 37201) and the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa to Villet (grant number 65774) and Price (grant number 67389). Any opinion, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NRF.
This collection of sound recordings includes cicada sounds from across South Africa and Malawi.
-34.75 and -10.817 Latitude; 17.602 and 34.264 Longitude.
The taxon list includes only those taxa identified to species present in the collection.
Rank | Scientific Name |
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species | Azanicada zuluensis |
species | Brevisiana brevis |
species | Ioba leopardina |
species | Munza furva |
species | Munza laticlavia |
species | Orapa numa |
species | Oxypleura lenihani |
species | Platypleura argentata |
species | Platypleura brunea |
species | Platypleura capensis |
species | Platypleura chalybaea |
species | Platypleura deusta |
species | Platypleura divisa |
species | Platypleura haglundi |
species | Platypleura hirta |
species | Platypleura hirtipennis |
species | Platypleura maytenophila |
species | Platypleura mijburghi |
species | Platypleura plumosa |
species | Platypleura signifera |
species | Platypleura stridula |
species | Platypleura techowi |
species | Platypleura wahlbergi |
species | Pycna semiclara |
species | Pycna sylvia |
Recordings and metadata are released under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) licence. BioAcoustica has a fine-grained licensing mechanism, where recordings are individually licenced. Other projects may have alternative licences. Copyright of the recordings belongs to the individual sound recordists.
This resource is a summary of the recordings included in this project. The full BioAcoustica dataset, including this and other projects, is available in DarwinCore Archive format (as described in
Column label | Column description |
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Recording | HTML link to BioAcoustica recording page |
Specimen | HTML link to BioAcoustica specimen/observation page |
Location | HTML link to BioAcoustica location page associated with Specimen |
Each Scratchpad automatically registers itself with the GBIF registry as a dataset. These datasets are associated with two entities within the registry, an organization, and an installation. The organization is 'Scratchpads', and the installation is 'Scratchpads at Natural History Museum, London', which theoretically allows additional Scratchpad installations at different institutions. The Scratchpads organization is sponsored by the UK's National Biodiversity Network, a requirement of the GBIF infrastructure.
On top of this, if a Scratchpad has a web service capable of providing data, then it is added as an endpoint to the dataset. We use a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) file as an endpoint to provide GBIF with the data from the sounds database.
The BioAcoustica dataset can be accessed at: http://www.gbif.org/dataset/30f55c63-a829-4cb2-9676-3b1b6f981567.
We would like to thank Tim Robertson and Markus Döring (both GBIF) for their work on linking the Scratchpads platform to GBIF that allows BioAcoustica to contribute to the global informatics community.
Recordings were made by Price and Villet. Baker developed the BioAcoustica platform to accommodate the requirements of the Global Cicada Sound Collection, and made the recordings available through the platform. Rycroft developed the Scratchpads code to allow harvesting of BioAcoustica data by GBIF. All authors contributed to the manuscript.