International Bioacoustics Council (IBAC)
XV IBAC Symposium
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Pavia, Italy, October 24-26, 1996
Organised by
Università degli Studi di Pavia
Centro
Interdisciplinare di Bioacustica e Ricerche Ambientali
Ispettorato Centrale Difesa Mare del Ministero dell'Ambiente
Abstracts of the papers are also published in Bioacoustics 8:249-279
Conference location:
Università degli Studi di Pavia
Centro Interdisciplinare di Bioacustica e Ricerche Ambientali
Via Taramelli, 24 - 27100 PAVIA - Italy
Organizing staff:
Gianni Pavan(1,2), Marco Priano(1), Michele Manghi(1)
1 - Centro Interdisciplinare di Bioacustica e Ricerche
Ambientali, Università di Pavia
2 - Dipartimento di Urbanistica, Istituto Universitario di Architettura
di Venezia
Programme
Wednesday, 23 October 1996
Arrivals and registrations at the Centro Interdisciplinare di Bioacustica
Thursday, 24 October 1996
08:30 - 09:30 Late registrations
09:30 - 10:00 Conference opening
10:00 - 10:15 Patrick Sellar: Some words about the IBAC
10:15 - 10:30 Peter McGregor: The Journal Bioacoustics
Biodiversity and acoustic communication
10:30 - 11:00 Acoustic biodiversity in tropical
cicadas: examples from S.E. Asia.
Matjia Gogala
11:00 - 11:40 Sound libraries have biodiversity taped. Richard Ranft
Lunch
Underwater bioacoustics
14:00 - 14:30 Acoustic localizations of blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) by fixed arrays and moored autonomous hydrophone arrays. Kathleen M. Stafford, Christopher G. Fox
14:30 - 15:00 Aversive sound and the harbour
porpoise (Phocoena phocoena).
Goodson A. D., Connelly P. R., Lepper P.
15:00 - 15:30 Comparison of Swimbladder and Pectoral Sounds in Pimelodid, Mochokid and Doradid Catfish. Friedrich Ladich
15:30 - 16:00 Use of auditory brainstem response (ABR) for fish auditory sensitivity study. Hong Y. Yan, Todd N. Kenyon, Friedrich Ladich
Acoustic ecology & Behavioural aspects in acoustic communication: birds.
16:30 - 17:00 Communication networks in territorial songbirds. P.K. McGregor
17:00 - 17:30 Song - a reliable cue for male quality in the moustached warbler Acrocephalus melanopogon? Birgit Fessl, Herbert Hoi
17:30 - 18:00 Discrimination of the parental call by the king penguin chick Aptenodytes patagonicus: the "cocktail-party" effect. Thierry Aubin, Pierre Jouventin
18:00 - 18:30 Dialects in Ravens: New aspects of an old problem. Peter Enggist
18:30 - 19:00 Communication in Ravens: Again new aspects of an old problem. Ueli Pfister
Friday, 25 October 1996
Acoustic ecology & Behavioural aspects in acoustic communication: mammals.
09:00 - 09:30 Spectrographic analysis of cat vocalizations during the early months of life. Clotilde Trinchero, Cristina Giacoma, Roberto Ostellino
09:30 - 10:00 Subharmonics and frequency jumps in the vocalisation of Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata). Tobias Riede
10:00 - 10:30 Vocalizations of captive ringtailed and ruffed lemurs: stability and mother offspring comparison. Clotilde Trinchero, Cristina Giacoma, Marco Gamba, Maura Ampollini
Acoustic ecology & Behavioural aspects in acoustic communication: amphibians.
11:00 - 11:30 The role of female choice in the evolution of the European green-toad advertisement call. Sergio Castellano, Cristina Giacoma
11:30 - 12:00 First record of the mating call of a burrowing frog from western Madagascar: Scaphiophryne brevis (Boulenger, 1896) (Anura: Microhylidae). Riccardo Jesu, Giovanni Schimmenti
Lunch
Ultrasound and sound analysis methods
14:00 - 14:30 A bionic sonarhead. Herbert Peremans, Ashley Walker and John Hallam
14:30 - 15:00 Ultrasonic vocalizations during heterosexual encounters in mice. Mazzacane E., D'Amato F.R.
15:00 - 15:30 Sonographic characterization of ultrasonic vocalizations emitted by infant laboratory mice. Igor Branchi, Daniela Santucci, Augusto Vitale, Enrico Alleva
16:00 - 17:00 Poster Discussion
17:00 - 19:00 Informal discussion group.
Chairman: Richard Ranft "audio copyright and licensing, and preserving
of sound quality in publications", proposed by Sten Wahlström.
"Reliability of DAT recorders and DAT tapes", proposed by Matija
Gogala.
Social Dinner
Saturday, 26 October 1996
09:00 - 10:30 Poster Discussion
10:30 - 11:30 Technical Demonstrations
Sound and ultrasound acquisition and analysis. Technical demonstration. Gianni Pavan, Michele Manghi
11:45 - 12:30 IBAC AGM
Lunch
14:00 - 18:00 Excursion, depending on the weather conditions; visit to the "Certosa di Pavia"
Sunday, 27 October 1996
departure
