Location of the CongressPalazzo San Tommaso, Aula G1 Symposia
Detailed programmeFriday, 14th September 200716:00-19:00 Registration
Saturday 15th September 2007Opening 8:15 Registration 9:00 Conference Opening General Bioacoustics (G.Pavan) 9:30 Tide and social interactions modulate the vocal behaviour of the Lusitanian toadfish, Halobatrachus didactylus M.C.P. Amorim, J.M. Simões, V.C. Almada, P.J. Fonseca 9:45 Development of ultrasound social calls made by adult Rhinolophus ferrumequinum bats from infant bat ultrasound calls M. Andrews, T.P. McOwat, P.T. Andrews, R.J. Haycock 10:00 The role of acoustic dispersion in the mouths of bats during echolocation P.T. Andrews 10:15 Auditory temporal resolution in a cicada is enhanced by the characteristics of the calling song P.J. Fonseca, T. Correia 10:30 Coffee Break 11:00 Surprizing discoveries in palaearctic mountain cicadas by acoustic research M. Gogala, T. Trilar, S. Drosopoulos 11:15 The advertisement calls of Stripless treefrog (Hyla meridionalis) and European treefrogs (H. arborea): sympatry versus allopatry C. Moreira, R. Marquez, E. Crespo 11:30 Differences in acoustic signals of five Lake Malawi cichlid species (Pseudotropheus spp.): Implications for evolutionary processes J.M. Simões, P. Fonseca, G. Turner, M.C.P. Amorim 11:45 The cicadas from the genus Pagiphora (Hemiptera, Cicadidae) are singing in surprisingly low frequencies T. Trilar, M. Gogala 12:00 Stridulation in sympatric species of Pachycondyla (Formicidae, Ponerinae): from the production organ to behavioural coding F. Rybak, P. Marchand, D. Fresneau 12:15 Intra-individual variation of serin Serinus serinus song A. Mamede, P.G. Mota 12:30 Vocal communication of Siberian crane Grus leucogeranus: it's doesn't matter, who are you - your sex is important E.V. Bragina, I.R. Beme Lunch time: buffet in the yards of the University of Pavia (University Coffee Shop)
In-air communication in mammals (I.Charrier, D.Reby) 14:30 Calf's vocal recognition by mother in Atlantic walrus: a first field experimental study I. Charrier, I. Mathevon, T. Aubin 14:45 Application of the source-filter theory and PSOLA re-synthesis to the study of mammal vocal communication D. Reby 15:00 How and when do lambs recognize the bleats of their mothers? F. Sèbe, T. Aubin, O. Sèbe, G. Perrin, R. Nowak, P. Poindron 15:15 Knee clicking reflects body size of eland bulls: an unusual source of information? J. Bro-Jørgensen 15:30 Human listeners attend to size information in domestic dog growls A.M. Taylor, D. Reby 15:45 Fundamental frequency and formant frequencies of groans encode information about male quality in fallow deer (Dama dama) A.G. McElligott, E. Vannoni 16:00 On the information content of Barbary macaque copulation calls J. Fischer 16:15 Song complexity in the indris M. Gamba, V. Sorrentino, L. Favaro, V. Torti, C. Giacoma 16:30 Coffee Break 17:00 On the structure of male rodent courtship songs K. Hammerschmidt, J. Fischer 17:15 Changes in the acoustic structure of fallow buck groans during the rut E. Vannoni and A. G. McElligott, 17:30 The temporal instability of individual alarm calls in the spleckled ground squirrels (Spermophilus suslicus) I.A. Volodin, V.A. Mastrova, E.V. Volodina 17:45 Selection for tame or aggressive behaviour toward humans affects vocalization in the red fox Vulpes vulpes E.V. Volodina, S.S. Gogoleva, I.A. Volodin, L.N. Trut 18:00 Bellow amplitude of bison (Bison bison) reflects male quality, motivation, and seasonal condition M.T. Wyman, M.S. Mooring, B.J. McCowan, K. Hodge, L.A. Hart
Sunday 16th September 2007How to describe, measure and compare complex acoustic communication signals in birds and mammals? (J.Vielliard) 09:00 Evolutionary trends towards higher complexity in bird songs J. Vielliard 09:15 Concepts and methods for dealing with large vocal repertoires: from thrushes to marine mammals D. Todt 09:30 The signal repertoire of Killer Whales Orcinus orca: how social factors can influence the development of dialects J. Cirillo, J. Almunia, D. Todt 09:45 Repertoire size and entropy measures: comparative results in versatile songs M. L. da Silva 10:00 Measuring variability with bits and q-bits J. R. Castilho Piqueira 10:30 Coffee Break 11:00 Review of spectral trajectory analysis (STA), an unsupervised learning method for quantifying vocal repertoires A. Thorn 11:15 Analysis of Male Pied Flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) Song Complexity J.T. Tanttu, J. Turunen, T. Laaksonen, P. Sirkiä 11:30 Discussion 12:00-13:00 Poster session Lunch time, enjoy the quiet town centre
Animal communication networks: from behaviour to brain (T.Aubin, N.Mathevon) 14:30 Transmission of acoustic signals and information transfer in a communication network M. Naguib 14:45 The group signature in the complex song of a songbird, the skylark Alauda arvensis E. Briefer, F. Rybak, T. Aubin 15:00 How juveniles black caimans use sounds to communicate? A.L. Vergne, N. Mathevon, T. Aubin, P. Taylor 15:15 Inter-sexual acoustic communication in Xenopus laevis: temporal coding of gender and spectral coding of sex-appeal C. Vignal 15:30 Alarm calling and sentinel activity in Arabian babblers C. Sommer 15:45 The call of the Yelkouan shearwater: sexual and individual identities C. Curé, N. Mathevon, T. Aubin 16:00 Sound detection and communication in the European gudgeon Gobio gobio in a shallow creek L.E. Wysocki, F. Ladich 16:15 Responses to natural classes of songs in the auditory telencephalon of adult male starlings I. George, H. Cousillas, J.-P. Richard, M. Hausberger 16:30 Coffee Break 17:00 Heterospecific stimulation, attention and song learning in starlings: a long-term study F. Rousseau, L. Henry, C. Sankey, C. Aubry, M. Hausberger 17:15 Developmental song learning in the zebra finch S. Derégnaucourt, M. Gahr 17:30 Song and brain development of canaries raised under restricted acoustic environments S. Leitner, S. Belzner, C. K. Catchpole 17:45 Acoustic features of female song vary with competitive context in sex-role reversed African black coucals (Centropus grillii) N. Geberzahn, W. Goymann, C. Ten Cate 18:00 Chaffinch song variation and its meaning in the context of sexual selection A. Leitao, K. Riebel
Monday 17th September 2007Monitoring the Environment: Bioacoustics as a tool for inventory and monitoring of biodiversity (K.Frommolt, R.Marquez, G.Pavan) 09:00 Playback experiment as a tool for detecting genetic diversity: combined bioacoustic and DNA data to assess passerine biodiversity in Southeast Asia M. Gelang 09:15 Terrestrial sound monitoring systems, a methodology for calibration and data processing R. Márquez, D. Llusia, R. Bowker 09:30 Acoustic Monitoring of Bird Species in a Riparian Zone in Kentucky, USA Using an Automated Recording System A. Meier, O. Meier, J. Bowers, C. Hamilton, M. G. Skaggs, R. Marquez and R. G. Bowker. 09:45 Nearest-Neighbor Techniques for the Monitoring of Nocturnal Flight Calls H. Figueroa, A. Farnsworth 10:00 Geographical variation in the songs of North Atlantic blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) and its potential use in population monitoring L. Di Iorio, I. Voellmy, S. Tgetgel, C.W. Clark 10:15 Automated Detection of Eurasian Bittern (Botaurus stellaris) Calls for Acoustical Wildlife Monitoring R. Bardali, K.-H. Tauchert 10:30 Coffee Break 11:00 Bioacoustic Monitoring of Birds K.-H. Frommolt, K.-H. Tauchert 11:15 Acoustic identification of bats using support vector machines and ensembles of neural networks S. Parsons, G. Jones, J. Szewczak, R. Redgwell 11:30 Computer-aided inventories of bioacoustic diversity: first results and future needs K. Riede 11:45 Acoustic monitoring in the South-Western Indian Ocean reveals call characteristics and seasonal occurrence of two blue whale subspecies F. Samaran, I. Charrier, T. Aubin, O. Adam, J.-F. Motsch, R. Gérard, C. Guinet 12:00 Advertisement call characteristics of two discoglossid allopatric subspecies, Bombina b.bombina and B.b.arifiyensis: acoustical implications for their subspecies recognition U. Kaya 12:15 Automatic Detection of Locustella luscinioides in Natural Environments D. Wolff, R. Bardeli, F. Kurth, K.-H. Tauchert 12:30 On the use of image processing to identify bioacoustic signals T. S. Brandes
The impacts of anthropogenic noise (Y.Yan) 14:30 Ambient noise as a selective force for ultrasonic communication in frogs P.M. Narins, A.S. Feng, Jun-Xian Shen 14:45 Effects of traffic noise on acoustic communication in birds K.M. Parris 15:00 Bird song and noise: short- and long-term adaptations of avian vocalizations H. Brumm 15:15 Effects of Urban Noise on Avian Song K. Seger, A. Rodewald, J. Soha 15:30 Divergence in song and morphology between city and forest populations of the European blackbird E. Ripmeester, H. Slabbekoorn 15:45 Accessory functions of the lateral line in inducing the startle reflex behaviour to high intensity sound Kazuhiko Anraku 16:00 Assessing effects of an acoustic marine geophysical survey on the behaviour of bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus S. Van der Woude 16:15 Characterization of Noises Generated by Aerators and its Possible Impacts on Cultured Fish and Shrimp Hong Young Yan, Hsin-Yi Yu, Wu Jung Lee 16:30 Coffee Break 17:00-19:00 Poster Session 20:30 Social Dinner at Collegio Cairoli Don't forget your reservation ticket! See the map to locate it!
Tuesday 18th September 2007Technical Session 09:00 Microphones & Parabolas to capture nature sounds by K. Strandberg 09:30 10:00 Poster session 10:30 Coffee break 11:00 Poster session 11:30 AGM
2nd European workshop on animal sound research and libraries & Round Table Organized within the frame of EDIT WP4 (X. Eekhout, G.Pavan) 14:00 Sound libraries: aims, roles, responsibilities R. Ranft 14:10 "Fonoteca Zoologica" www.FonoZoo.com the web-based animal sound library of the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), Madrid, Spain R. Márquez, X. Eekhout & M. Pérez 14:20 Fonoteca ZOOLÒGICA, Museu de Ciències Naturals de la Ciutadella de Barcelona. Past, Present and Future A. Omedes, A. M. Figuerola 14:30 Current activities at the Humboldt-University animal sound archive K.-H. Frommolt 14:40 ASA, the Amazonian Sound Archive J.M.E. Vielliard 14:50 Sound libraries at CIBRA G. Pavan, C. Fossati, M. Manghi, M. Priano 15:00 Slovenian Wildlife Sound Archive T. Trilar and M. Gogala 15:10 BARN (Bioacoustic Resource Network) On Building a Distributed Network of Annotated Sound Libraries to Support Bioacoustics Research H. Figueroa 15:20 Funding opportunities for a network in Bioacoustics within EU's 7th Framework Program X. Eekhout 15:30 Questions & Answers 15:40 Coffee Break 16:10 Round Table: action plan for objectives of the EWASRL formulated at the EDIT-sponsored first workshop, 27-30 September 2006 - see http://www.ibac.info/bioac_collections.html Introduction by Rafael Marquez & Richard Ranft Proposal of bylaws and webpage of the "European Network of Bioacoustics Collections for Taxonomy and Conservation" by Xavier Eekhout 18:00 Final Remarks 18:30 Conclusion of the Congress
PostersTOOLS & EQUIPMENT 1 Freely faceted classification for a BioAcoustic Reference Database C. Gnoli, G. Pavan, G. Merli, M. Priano, E. Bernuzzi 2 Machine Learning Techniques for the Classification of Orthoptera Songs F. Schwenker, D. Latif, C. Thiel, K. Riede, G. Palm 3 Seewave: a sound analysis multi-tool J. Sueur, T. Aubin, C. Simonis-Sueur 4 SeaWave. Real-time sound analysis tool for PAM, research and education G. Pavan 5 Framework for develop prototype bioacoustic devices in aid of open sea Killer Whales protection J.P. Luke, J. Almunia, F. Rosa 6 An Automated Digital Sound Recording System: The Amphibulator M. Cambron, R. Márquez, J. Bowers, A. Meier, R. G. Bowker 7 A software tool for distributing/collecting digital audio on a network M. Bassanini, G. Pavan 8 New tools for monitoring noise in both terrestrial and acquatic environments G. Pavan, M. Manghi 9 A new generation of bottom recorders M. Manghi, G. Pavan 10 A call monitoring system to study acoustic communicaton in anurans V.B. Zanollo, V. Marconi, G. Berto, L. Spagnolo, L. Tontini, M. Gamba, C. Greco, S. Castellano. 11 Avian flight calls during nocturnal migration: automated recording, detection and species identification T. Schrama, M. Poot, M. Robb & H. Slabbekoorn
INSECTS 12 Morphology of the stridulation organs in various species of Trogidae (Coleoptera), with an initial study of distress signals in Trox cadaverinus Ill. and T. scaber (L.) J. Benes 13 Stridulatory organ and stress-induced sound of females of the velvet ant, Myrmilla capitata (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) C. Polidori, C. Settanni, L. Borruso, F. Gaudesi, G. Pavan 14 Geographic variation in the male calling song of Isophya posthumoidalis (Orthoptera, Tettigonioidea, Phaneropteridae) K. M. Orci, G. Szövényi, B. Nagy
MARINE MAMMALS 15 Fin whale, Balaenoptera physalus, reaction to an earthquake J.-P. Gallo-Reynoso, J. Égido-Villarreal, G. Martínez-Villalba 16 Whistles structure of two populations of Sotalia dolphins (Cetacea: Delphinidae) in Pará State, Brazil N.R. Emin de Lima, M.L. da Silva 17 Phonetic description of seven delphinid species whistles recorded in the Mediterranean Sea M. Azzolin, A. Gannier, A. Cañadas, N. Perez-Gimeno, M. Gamba, M. O. Lammers, C. Giacoma 18 NEMO and way ahed G. Pavan, G. Riccobene, NEMO Collaboration 19 The sonar of dolphins: behavioral experiments versus auditory evoked potential methods G. Zaslavski 20 Experiments on automated detection and clustering of sounds of Tursiops truncatus S. Huebner
TERRESTRIAL MAMMALS 21 Influences of the habitat on usage and structure of vocalizations in olive baboons (Papio hamadryas anubis) E. Ey, K. Hammerschmidt, D. Zinner, J. Fischer 22 The Acoustic Repertoire of Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus) in Captivity M. Artelt, C. Scharff 23 Acoustic communication in African elephants (Loxodonta africana): Who is calling? R. Lintner, A. S. Stoeger-Horwath, H. M. Schwammer, H. Kratochvil 24 Early vocal ontogeny in African elephants A. S. Stoeger-Horwath, S. Stoeger, H. Schwammer, H. Kratochvil, R. Lintner 25 It´s all about freshness - Stimuli eliciting ultrasonic vocalizations from wild male house mice (Mus musculus musculus) F. Hoffmann, K. Musolf, D. Penn 26 Does maternal stress affect ultrasonic vocalizations in mice? D. Oddi, L. Garbugino, F.R. D'Amato, E. Prato Previde, A. Moles 27 The undistinguishable alarm whistle frequencies in adult and juvenile ground squirrels: the way to avoid an age-dependent risk? V. A. Matrosova, I. A. Volodin, E. V. Volodina 28 Howling playback as a tool for monitoring wolf packs: tests of signal propagation and acousticfrequency discrimination F. Sebe, C. Duchamp, N. Heitz, R. Latini, T. Aubin
BIRDS 29 Vocal repertoire of wild breeding Orange-winged Parrot Amazona amazonica in Amazonia L. Negrão de Moura, M.L. da Silva 30 Species-specific differences in the timing of the dawn chorus in Passerines G. Solís, A. Dreiss, Y. Espmark, H. Lampe, T. Limburg, P. Perret, P. Slater, N.Yoccoz, D.Gil 31 Concerning the periods of existence of Redwing's (Turdus iliacus) local dialects L.A. Osipova 32 Signals of need and identity - the development of multi-component begging calls in colonial weaver birds H. Reers, A. Jacot 33 Segmentation patterns in African Grey Parrot (Psittacus erithacus) vocal production S. Masin, L. Bottoni, R. Massa, D. Lenti Boero 34 Individual-specific information is contained in domesticated canary songs C. Del Negro, K. Lehongre 35 The long-term stability of pair-specific duet structures in the red-crowned crane Grus japonensis can be used for the vocal-based monitoring of territorial pairs through the years A.V. Klenova, I.A. Volodin, E.V. Volodina 36 Iberian Azure-winged magpie (Cyanopica (cyana) cooki) nestlings begging calls: call characterization and hunger signalling P.A.M. Marques 37 Acoustic monitoring of a sensitive species to forest fragmentation: the Ocellated antbird Araya, Yi-men 38 Same-sex pair bonds in Zebra finches J. Elie, C. Vignal, N. Mathevo 39 Additive signal processing in nightingales (Luscinia megarhynchos) P. Sprau, R. Schmidt, T. Roth, V. Amrhein, M. Naguib 40 Call repertoire of an endemic avian species the Indian Chat Cercomela fusca Vinaya Kumar Sethi & Dinesh Bhatt 41 First recordings of ural owl (Strix uralensis) vocalizations in the Cansiglio forest (N-E Veneto region, Italy). A further proof of presence A. Favaretto, F. Mezzavilla, S. Lombardo, G. Pavan 42 Longitudinal study of song type repertoire changes in common nightingales (Luscinia megarhynchos) Sarah Kiefer
AMPHIBIANS 43 Calling parameters and the effect of temperature in Bombina bombina and Bombina variegata R. Márquez, D. Cogalniceanu, D. Llusia, X. Eekhout, G.M. Tena 44 Acoustical and thermal monitoring of Iberian population of anurans. Preliminary comparative results with Alytes cisternasii R. Márquez, D. Llusia, X. Eekhout, J.F. Beltrán, J.P. Sousa Do Amaral, C. Moreira, R. Bowker & M. Cambron.
FISHES 45 Vocal behaviour during territorial intrusions in the Lusitanian toadfish: mating boatwhistles arealso a territorial 'keep-out signal' M.C.P. Amorim, J.M. Simões, V.C. Almada , P. J. Fonseca 46 Acoustic communication in the Lusitanian toadfish, Halobatrachus didactylus: evidence for an unusual large vocal repertoire M.C.P. Amorim, J.M. Simões, V.C. Almada, P.J. Fonseca 47 Acoustic Signaling - a substrate for Sexual Selection in African Chiclids? M.J. Van Staaden, A.R. Smith 48 Evaluating the impact of small boat noise on marine protected area fish species: a DBht (species) approach as management tool A. Codarin, L.E. Wisocki, F. Ladich, A. Farina, M. Spoto, M. Picciulin, 49 Why so noisy during spawning: sound production in Catonotus darters C.E. Johnston, D.E. Holt 50 Ambient and anthropogenic noise in a plain river in Northern Italy C. Fossati, G. Pavan, M. Priano
OTHER TOPICS 51 The value of information - What to communicate? A. Mamede, P.G. Mota 52 Neurofunctional spectrographic analysis of cry of brain injured asphyxiated: a physioacoustic and clinical study D. Lenti Boero, C. Lenti 53 Cry of preterm infants recorded at term: a spectrographic study D. Lenti Boero, C. Lenti 54 Effect of propagation on speech in natural middles J. Meyer, L. Dentel 55 The role of Sound Libraries in the development of education and conservation programs G. Pavan, G.Pinoli 56 The sounds of life on earth: wildlife sounds in The British Library Sound Archive C. Tipp
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