I agree it would be good get more clarity/details on what you're thinking. It sounds like you want acoustic analyses to be incorporated into the app itself?

Thanks for your responses Christos and Carly

The FIA is used by forestry managers, NGOs, communities, indigenous groups and other non-experts to measure a proxy for biodiversity in the forests that they manage and provide information of management. The forest composition and structure as microhabitats in the forest are most correlated with overall biodiversity (fungi, plants, animal). Adding a measure has been used as an education component thus far, but improving on this would potentially increase users awareness of key vocal species. Anything that HCVN recommends for development must be accessible, simple to low-cost. Acoustic sensors and data processing with BirdNET or similar would potentially be inaccessible for some users communities so I was enquiring within the Wildlabs community on suitable approaches that could provide a proxy measure of biodiversity for better forest management. 

Happy to jump on a call to explain further (based in UK)

Cheers 

Hi Nev, from a high level, have you considered acoustic indices and the biodiversity index?  

Hi Mona. Yes, this is what we certainly what we are considering, but how to measure these indices by the hands of non-experts in the field is the advice that I need from the WL network.  Cheers