Program

9.00 - 19.30 h.

Sponsors & Exhibitions

 

9.00 - 10.00 h.

Plenary Talk. Sensors and AI for autonomous eco-acoustic monitoring

Salón de Actos

    Speaker:
    Sarab S. Sethi

    Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, UK

    Chairperson:
    Paola Laiolo

    Instituto Mixto de Investigación en Biodiversidad (UO-CSIC), Spain

 

10.45 - 13.00 h.

Open Talks. 8: Behavioural ecology

Salón de Actos

    Chairperson:
    Manuel B. Morales Prieto

    Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

Disclosing the architecture and the community level consequences of acoustic interaction networks

    Speaker:
    Federica Rossetto

    Biodiversity Research Institute (CSIC, Oviedo University, Principality of Asturias), Mieres, Spain

Ecoacoustic Monitoring of the endangered Pink Cockatoo (Lophochroa leadbeateri leadbeateri) in Semi-Arid Eastern Australia: Insights into Spatial and Temporal Patterns

    Speaker:
    Susan Fuller

    Queensland University of Technology. Australia

Uncoupled evolutionary patterns in spectral and temporal components of acoustic signals in anurans associated with streams

    Speaker:
    Fernando Vargas-Salinas

    Behavioural ecology of Anurans. Biology Program, University of Quindío. Armenia. Colombia

To respond or not to respond? Acoustic interference between closely related frog species

    Speaker:
    María Torres Sánchez

    Postdoctoral fellow. University Complutense of Madrid. Madrid. Spain

Hurry up and sing: early onset of diel calling behaviour and ecological drivers of calling behaviour of Acanthoplus discoidalis

    Speaker:
    Aileen Van Der Mescht

    Ecoacoustics. University of the Free State. Bloemfontein. South Africa

Listening to the Amazonian freshwater giant: using air-breathing sounds to understand pirarucu (Arapaima gigas) dynamics in remote floodplain lakes

    Speaker:
    Marisol Valverde Montellano

    PhD student at Cornell University

Unravelling marine symphonies: fish sound types for effective biodiversity monitoring and management

    Speaker:
    Marta Bolgan

    Ocean Science Consulting Ltd. Spott Rd. Scotland. UK

Is there geographic variation in the whistles of the pantropical spotted dolphin in the Western South Atlantic Ocean?

    Speaker:
    Luane Maria Stamatto Ferreira

    Laboratory of Bioacoustics & EAR Hub, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil

The whistle repertoire of bottlenose dolphins and its use to estimate abundance

    Speaker:
    Carmen Bazúa Durán

    Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, CU, Mexico

 

10.45 - 13.00 h.

Open Talks. 9: Community ecology and monitoring programs

Aula 002

    Chairperson:
    Samuel Ross

    Okinawa Institute od Science and Technology Graduate University, Japan

On-board tags reveal wild bat foraging behaviour and prey interaction

    Speaker:
    Elena Tena López

    TRAGSATEC, Spain

Mobile monitoring of bats in agricultural landscapes

    Speaker:
    Paula Machin

    Wildlife Services

Unveiling hidden diversity: Community composition of bats in agricultural ecosystems in Spain

    Speaker:
    Zeltia López Gallego

    Bat Ecologist. Biodiversity Node S.L., SPAIN

Bat Sonotype As a Novel Insight into the Congo Basin Rainforest Dynamic

    Speaker:
    Yoba Alenga

    Biodiversity and Sustainable forest management. Congolese Youth Biodiversity Network. Bukavu. Democratic Republic of the Congo

Listening to the mountains: towards the application of large-scale passive acoustic monitoring in alpine environments

    Speaker:
    José Lahoz-Monfort

    Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (CSIC). Spain

Birdsong automatic monitoring using Deep Learning for tracking Doñana’s health status

    Speaker:
    Irene Mendoza Sagrera

    Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC)Ecology. Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC). Sevilla. Spain

A glimpse at island bird diversity and ecological dynamics using the Okinawa Environmental Observation Network

    Speaker:
    Nicholas Friedman

    Curator Ornithology, Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change, Germany

Advancing conservation of endemic forest bird species on Christmas Island using acoustic monitoring.

    Speaker:
    Sheryn Brodie

    Zoology and Ecology, College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University

FishSounds: A Global Inventory of Sound-Producing Fishes

    Speaker:
    Kieran Cox

    Marine Acoustics. Simon Fraser University and FishSounds. Vancouver. Canada

 

10.45 - 13.00 h.

Symposium. Density estimation using passive acoustic monitoring: lessons from multiple taxa

Sala de Grados

    Chairpersons:
    Cristián Pérez Granados

    Universidad de Alicante. Spain

    Tiago Marques

    University of St Andrews. United Kingdom

The fundamental aspects to consider when estimating density from passive acoustic monitoring data: lessons from cetaceans

    Speaker:
    Tiago Marques

    University of St Andrews. United Kingdom

Acoustic monitoring based density estimation of cetaceans and bats

    Speaker:
    Jens Koblitz

    MPI of Animal Behavior. Constance. Germany

Vocal activity rate: a simple method for bird density estimation

    Speaker:
    Cristián Pérez Granados

    Universidad de Alicante. Spain

Estimating population sizes of single-species dense aggregations: using an energy-based acoustic index

    Speaker:
    Laura N. Kloepper

    University of New Hampshire. USA

Acoustic monitoring yields informative bat population density estimates

    Speaker:
    Joy O'Keefe

    University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. USA

Assessing Indri indri Population Density and Distribution through Passive Acoustic Monitoring

    Speaker:
    Valeria Ferrario

    University of Turin, Italy

"SonicSpotter" - sound source localisation in a complex calling community of poison frogs

    Speaker:
    Max Ringler

    University of Bern, Switzerland

General discussion

 

13.00 - 14.30 h.

Time for lunch

 

14.30 - 16.00 h.

Open Talks. 10: New soundscape metrics

Salón de Actos

    Chairperson:
    Kevin Darras

    EFNO research group (Ecosystèmes Forestiers Nogent). INRAE. France

Towards reliable ecoacoustic indices to assess the acoustic biodiversity using passive acoustic monitoring

    Speaker:
    Sylvain Haupert

    National Museum of Natural History (MNHN), France

Contrastive Ecoacoustic Indices: large-scale global soundscape characterization with contrastive inference

    Speaker:
    Yann Teytaut

    Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN). Paris. France

Implementation of an unsupervised deep learning workflow for soundscape exploration

    Speaker:
    Rouch Jérémy

    Acoustics/Signal processing, ENES Bioacoustic Lab/University of Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France

Graphical Representation of Ecological Heterogeneity in Colombian Oil Palm Plantations Based on Unsupervised Acoustic Analysis

    Speaker:
    Maria Jose Guerrero Muriel

    PhD student, SISTEMIC-Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia

Understanding the predictive power of acoustic ecological indicators with reverse correlation

    Speaker:
    Etienne Thoret

    CNRS, Aix-Marseille University, Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone, UMR7289

Sonic Method: a qualitative practice for the analysis of wild soundscapes

    Speaker:
    Thomas Hull

    Soundscape ecology, Falmouth University, Penyrn, United Kingdom

 

14.30 - 16.00 h.

Open Talks. 11: Annotation and platforms

Aula 002

    Chairperson:
    Oliver Metcalf

    Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University. UK

Developing and running a sustainably funded bioacoustic data management platform: the BTO Acoustic Pipeline

    Speaker:
    Simon Gillings

    British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), UK

Automatic Label Evaluator: a user-friendly tool for evaluating sound-classification algorithms applied to nature conservation

    Speaker:
    Miguel Ángel Muñoz Mohedano

    Computer Sciences. Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC). Sevilla. Spain

Detecting animal sounds faster in long recordings using Few-Shot Learning: a case study on fish sounds

    Speaker:
    Valentin Bordoux

    Marine Animal Ecology. Wageningen University. Wageningen. The Netherlands

Training Participants to Train Machines: Amplifying Participation in a Bat Acoustic Monitoring Program

    Speaker:
    Yves Bas

    Vigie-Nature

Knowledge co-production drives symbiotic solutions to conservation, ecology and AI: Insights from an ecoacoustics programme in Indonesia

    Speaker:
    Frederica Poznansky

    Ecoacoustics and Conservation. University of Exeter. Exeter. United Kingdom

Neural Network-Based Discrimination of Orca Vocalizations: Towards Real-Time Monitoring and Analysis

    Speaker:
    Jonas Philipp Lüke

    Departamento de Ingeniería Industrial. Universidad de La Laguna. La Laguna. Spain

 

14.30 - 16.00 h.

Symposium. Acoustic monitoring of biodiversity in transformed landscapes

Sala de Grados

    Chairpersons:
    Charles Arthur Tebbutt

    Department of Natural Resource & Environment, Cornell University, U.S.A.

    Camilo Loaiza Gómez

    Wildlife Conservation Society. Bogotá. Colombia

Passive acoustic monitoring of indicator bird species supporting the “Conservation Cocoa” new brand in the northwestern Colombian Amazonia

    Speaker:
    Camilo Loaiza Gómez

    Wildlife Conservation Society. Bogotá. Colombia

Automated Avian Species Detections to Evaluate Ecosystem Services in Artisanal Rubber Agroforestry

    Speaker:
    Charles Arthur Tebbutt

    Department of Natural Resource & Environment, Cornell University, U.S.A.

Acoustic indices as a proxy for biodiversity? Case studies from Madagascar and Indonesia

    Speaker:
    Saskia Dröge

    Division of Forest. Nature and Landscape. KU Leuven. Belgium. Department of Biology, University of Hildesheim, Universitaetsplatz. Biodiversity, Macroecology and Biogeography, University of Goettingen. Germany

Acoustic indices may be less accurate when applied in biodiverse areas in lower latitudes

    Speaker:
    Wuyuan Pan

    Guangxi Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Conservation, College of Forestry, Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi 530005, China

Acoustic Sensing For Biodiversity And Habitat Assessment: A Case From Costa Rica

    Speaker:
    Mónica Retamosa Izaguirre

    Universidad Nacional. Heredia. Costa Rica

General discussion

 

16.00 - 16.30 h.

Coffee break

 

16.30 - 18.00 h.

Plenary Round Table. Past, present and future of ecoacoustic research

Salón de Actos

    Speakers:
    Almo Farina

    University of Urbino Carlo Bo (UNIURB). Italy

    Susan Fuller

    Queensland University of Technology. Australia

    Jérôme Sueur

    National Museum of Natural History (MNHN). France

    Chairpersons:
    Camille Desjonquères

    Université Grenobles Alpes. France

    José Lahoz-Monfort

    Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (CSIC). Spain

 

18.00 - 19.30 h.

ISE General Assembly

Salón de Actos

 

18.00 - 19.00 h.

Sponsored workshop. Wildlife Acoustics, Introduction to Acoustic Indices for Biodiversity Monitoring

Sala de Grados

An Introduction to Acoustic Indices in Kaleidoscope Pro.

    Speaker:
    Fran Tattersall

    Wildlife Acoustics, Inc