08:30 - 10:00 registration and ice breaking
10:00 - Coffee break
10:30 - Opening
Richard Ranft (IBAC Honorary Secretary)
Gianni Pavan (IBAC Chairman)
11:00 - Complex acoustic communication signals.
Jacques Vielliard (Brazil)
11:30 - Application of entropy to Rufous-bellied Thrush
song.
Maria Luisa da Silva (Brazil)
12:00 - Analysis of ecstatic display in male Humboldt penguins.
Biasotti B., Gnone G., Pavan G. (Italy)
12:30 - Lunch break
14:30 - Behavioural modulation by the social context in
the gregarious parakeet, Melopsittacus undulatus : vocal and postural
responses to an alarm call.
Gérard Nicolas (France)
15:00 - Making yourself heard – A study of masking effects
on blue tit Parus caeruleus singing interactions
Angelika Poesel, Torben Dabelsteen & Simon Boel
Pedersen (Denmark)
15:30 - Small programs based on temporal aspects of birdsong.
Margaret Rebbeck (UK)
16:00 - Food-begging calls in african parrots.
V. Venuto, R. Massa & L. Bottoni (Italy)
16:30 - Coffee break
17:00 - 19:00 - Poster discussion
21:00 - Video Projection: the winner of the International Nature Film Festival
09:30 - Studies of cicada sound production using commercial
HS video.
Matija Gogala and Tomi Trilar (Slovenia)
10:00 - Nonresonant stridulation - a challenge for digital
signal processing.
Gunther Tschuch & Denis J. Brothers (Germany)
10:30 - Comparison in structure and variation of advertisement
and release call of the green toad, Bufo viridis (Amphibia: Anura).
Luca Tontini, Sergio Castellano, Cristina Giacoma (Italy)
11:00 - Coffee break
11:30 - Tonal calls, noises and its associations in Eulemur
species.
Marco Gamba & Cristina Giacoma (Italy)
12:00
- Voiced and voiceless human infant cries in an evolutionary perspective.
Daniela
Lenti Boero, Carlo Lenti, Francesca Rocca (Italy)
CANCELED - A burrows of mammals
as an acoustical system (on the example of Marmota bobak).
Alexander A. Nikol'skii (Russia)
12:30 - Lunch break
15:00 - 16:30 - Projection of documentary films presented at the Film Festival
16:30 - Coffee break
17:00 - 19:00 - Poster discussion
21:00 - Video projections (open to accompanying persons too)
scientific videos presented by participants and a documentary film chosen among
those presented at the Festival
09:30 - Humpback whale population structure revealed through
geographic variation in Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean song structure.
David A. Helweg (USA)
10:00 - Passive acoustic detection of finless porpoises
in the Yangtze River, China.
Tomonari Akamatsu, Ding Wang, Kexiong Wang & Zhuo
Wei (Japan, China)
10:30 - INFN NEMO Test Platform: an opportunity for a long
term study of ocean noise and biological sounds in the Mediterranean Sea.
Gianni Pavan, G. Riccobene, G. Cosentino,
F. Speziale (Italy)
11:00 - Coffee break
11:30 - Discriminating individual sea lions by voice: a neural network signal
processing solution to signature call identification.
Bob Gisiner, David A. Helweg, Greg Campbell (USA)
12:00 - Ontogeny of mother's voice recognition in fur seal pups.
Nicolas Mathevon, Isabelle Charrier, Thierry Aubin, Pierre Jouventin (France)
12:30 - How a pup identify its mother in a colony of antarctic fur seals.
Thierry Aubin, Isabelle Charrier, Nicolas Mathevon, Pierre Jouventin (France)
13:00 - Lunch break
14:30 - The effects of noise exposure on auditory sensitivity
of fishes.
Amy R. Scholik and Hong Y. Yan (USA)
15:00 - Acoustic and temporal features of sounds of Sciaena
umbra (Sciaenidae) in the Miramare Marine Reserve (Gulf of Trieste, Italy).
Clizia Bonacito, Marco Costantini, Licia Casaretto, Anthony D. Hawkins,
Maurizio Spoto, Enrico A. Ferrero (Italy, UK)
15:30 - Effects of noise exposure on hearing and modulation
of agonistic behaviour in skunk loach (Botia morleti).
Hong Y. Yan, Timothy Sparkes, Callie Prater (USA)
16:00 - Coffee break
16:30 - 19:00 - Poster discussion
20:00 - Social Dinner
09:30 - How do Bio-Acoustics Researchers Look for Information?
A Study of Interdisciplinary Information Seeking.
Ling Hwey Jeng, Hong Young Yan (USA)
10:00 - Preserving and networking natural sound collections
Richard Ranft (UK)
10:30 - Bioacoustic approach in diagnosing environment: a proposal of combined
method of the sound source species analysis and sound map.
Teruyo Oba (Japan)
CANCELED - The electronic
collection of animals acoustic signals.
A.A. NikolsKii, E.N. Panov & A.S. Roubstov (Russia)
11:00 - Coffee break
CANCELED - Loss of Natural
Soundscape: Global Implications of Its Effect on Humans and Wildlife.
Bernard Krause (USA)
11:30 - Bioacoustic approach in diagnosing environment:
a proposal of combined method of the sound source species analysis and sound
map.
Teruyo Oba (Japan)
12:00 - Lunch break
14:30 - Workshop on new trends in Bioacoustics
Themes to be discussed:
- Educational programs
- Sound and environment
- Sound Libraries
- Other topics to be suggested by participants
16:00 - Coffee break
17:00 - AGM - Annual General Meeting (agenda, minutes of last meeting AGM)
Full day excursion
· Birds
The Lombard effect in nightingales: noise-dependent amplitude
regulation of songs and calls in a territorial songbird.
Henrik Brumm (Germany)
The vocal repertoire of purple gallinule (Porphyrio
p. porphyrio): a first approach.
Marco Canu, Luca Salvati, Leonardo Pucci & Alberto Fanfani (Italy)
Interspecific aggression in the dark - the case of Tawny
Owl and Long-eared Owl.
Maciej Fuszara, El˜bieta Fuszara (Poland)
CANCELED - Evolution of song
complexity among hummingbirds.
Clementina González and Juan Francisco Ornelas (Mexico)
CANCELED - Seasonal variation
in the use of two different song categories in nightingales Luscinia megarhynchos.
Hansjoerg P. Kunc, Valentin Amrhein & Marc Naguib
(Germany & France)
Geographic and morphologic factors affecting begging calls
of the Red-billed Chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax, Corvidae).
Paola Laiolo & Antonio Rolando (Italy)
CANCELED - Geographical variation
in song structure of yellow hammer (Emberiza citrinella) and pine bunting
(E. leucephalos) in aspect of their hybridization.
A.S. Roubtsov & E.N. Panov. (Russia)
Seasonal variations in early breeding birds response to
playback in the province of Bologna (Northern Appennines)
Luca Melega and Mario Bonora (Italy)
· Mammals
Rut calls as vocal communication of male alpine chamois
Rupricapra rupricapra (L. 1758), during mating season.
Monica Giametta (Italy)
Descriptive analysis and variability in the vocal repertoire
of Alouatta palliata mexicana: a field study.
Giovanni Boscarol, Ivonne Falcone, Loredana Martinoli, Raffaella
Fiore, Marco Gamba, Ernesto Rodriguez Luna, Cristina Giacoma (Italy & Mexico)
Individual differences in human Infant cry in a comparative
perspective.
Francesca Rocca, Daniela Lenti Boero, Carlo Lenti (Italy)
Ontogeny and variability in the vocal repertoire of Varecia variegata
variegata.
Alessandra Cuminale, Marco Gamba, Cristina Giacoma (Italy)
Ultrasonic vocalizations as an index of social memory in
male and female mice.
Rizzi R., Costantini F. Moles A. and D’Amato F.R. (Italy)
Inter-burrow communication in subterranean rodents: what
features are environmental constraints acting over?
Gabriel Francescoli (Uruguay)
· Invertebrates
Complex acoustic behaviour of Endecous crickets
(ORTHOPTERA, PHALANGOPSIDAE).
Edison Zefa and Jacques M. E. Vielliard (Brazil)
A description of the song of the bush-cricket Poecilimon
fussi (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae).
Kirill Márk Orci (Hungary)
Patterns of stridulation variability in the genus Trypocopris
(Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea, Geotrupinae).
Loredana Carisio, Claudia Palestrini, Antonio Rolando & Luigi
Romeo (Italy)
Auditory Evoked Responses in Insects: A Noninvasive Method
for Measuring Hearing Sensitivity in Butterflies
Darja Ribaric, Friedrich Ladich (Slovenia, Austria)
· Underwater Bioacoustics and Acoustical Oceanography
The usage of vocalizations by the beluga whales (Delphinapterus
leucas) during group-resting and sexual behaviour.
Belikov R.A., Bel'kovich V.M. (Russia)
CANCELED - An assessment of
the acoustic waste as a result of biological inclusions in maritime surroundings.
Marinova, V. M., Atanasov, A., Daskalov K. (Bulgary)
Signature Whistle Hypothesis: a study of the occurrence
of such fact regarding the population of Sotalia fluviatilis (Cetacea,
Delphinidae) from Sepetiba Bay, Brazil.
Figueiredo, Luciana Duarte and Simão, Sheila Marino (Brazil)
Sound emissions of a female humpback whale in Arraial do
Cabo (RJ, Brazil).
Simão, Sheila. M. & Moreira, Sergio. C. (Brazil)
Description of the acoustic reportoire of the Megaptera
novaeangliae from the migratory corridor in Arraial do Cabo (RJ, Brazil).
Moreira, Sergio. C. & Simão, Sheila. M.
(Brazil)
Effects of muting and recovery on the sound production
in the croaking gourami, Trichopsis vittata (Pisces: Anabantoidei).
Nicola Novarini, Tomonari Akamatsu & Hong Y. Yan. (Italy,
Japan, USA)
Effects of noise exposure on the hearing and sound production
of Trichopsis vittata (Pisces; Anabantoidei).
Nicola Novarini, Tomonari Akamatsu & Hong Y. Yan (Italy, Japan,
USA)
Noise-induced hearing loss and effects on acoustic communication
in two otophysine fishes.
Amoser S., Ladich F. (Austria)
Acoustic tracking of Homarus gammarus inside the Natural Marine Reserve
of Miramare: preliminary results.
Marta Picciulin, Marco Costantini, M. Spoto & Enrico A. Ferrero, (Italy)
Low cost tools for sound recording and analysis. Guidelines for a good choice.
Gianni Pavan, Michele Manghi, Claudio Fossati (Italy)
· General Topics
Wavelet versus Fourier analysis of Philautus spp.
croaking.
Spithoven L., Eens M., Koedam N. & De Mol C.
(Belgium)
CANCELED - The Veprintsev
Collection of Animal Voices is a resource for research on locating and tracking
animals by sound.
Veprintseva O.D., Bukreev S.A., Demina G.V., Marinina
M.V., Kiknadze S.G., Vasyukov S.A. (Russia)
Recording ultrasounds in the field.
Gianni Pavan (Italy)