XXV International Bioacoustics Congress Murnau | Bavaria, Germany Bavaria, Germany | 7 – 12 September 2015 XXV International Bioacoustics Congress Congress Bioacoustics XXV International Murnau Support 5 Important Information 7 Program Schedule 9 Overview 15 Plenary Presentations 17 Symposium Presentations 21 Poster List 57 Poster Presentations 74 Registered Participants 153 SUPPORT SUPPORT ADDITIONAL SUPPORT We gratefully acknowledge the financial support Special thanks go to Richard Ranft – IASA, United of Dodotronic, Avisoft Bioacoustics, Noldus and Kingdom for his unfailing and uncomplaining Metris B.V. support regarding buildup and maintenance of the IBAC Website, to Michelle Rasch regarding the con- ference layout; to Swarovski Optik, who generously sponsored the Best Poster Award, the binocular SWAROVSKI OPTIK SLC 42 (SLC 10x42). HOST SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE International Bioacoustics Council Manfred Gahr (IBAC) Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Germany Henrik Brumm „These binoculars can go everywhere with you. ORGANISING COMMITTEE Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Germany You can take the binoculars with you on your extended observation trips in the surrounding Ole N. Larsen area, both during the day and at twilight. Manfred Gahr University of Southern Denmark The SLC 10x42 binoculars are sturdy in any Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Germany weather, day in day out, and also stand out thanks Albertine Leitao to their particularly high optical quality. You will Nicole Hoiss Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Germany enjoy these rugged, ergonomic binoculars for Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Germany many years.“ Fanny Rybak Antje Bakker Université de Paris Sud Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Germany Last, but not least to Taylor & Francis Group Andries ter Maat who are enriching the conference with a special Carolina Frankl-Vilches Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Germany price, a 1-YEAR-SUBSCRIPTION FOR THE JOURNAL Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Germany BIOACOUSTICS, for the Best Oral Presenation of Michiel Vellema Junior Participants. Albertine Leitao University of Southern Denmark Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Germany Andries ter Maat SUPPORT Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Germany Lisa Trost Richard Ranft Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Germany IASA, United Kingdom Diana Werner Michelle Rasch Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Germany michelle und josef design, Germany Thank you very much! ■ 5 6 XXV international BIOACOUSTICSimportant information CONGRESS Welcome to the XXV International Congress of the Please indicate upon registration, whether you are Bioacoustics Council. Our conference venue is ORAL presentations willing to change. USEFUL LOCAL information the Culture and Convention Centre / Kultur- und Tagungszentrum Murnau, KTM. Upon registration you´ll get more information about Oral presentations (talks including discussion) are the excursion of your choice, the “Beer Seminar”, national EMERGENCY NUMBERS divided into three groups: the “Murnauer Moos” or the “Staffelsee”. TEL. 110 / 112 registration Fire department, police, emergency care Plenary talks: 60 min Symposium talks: 20 minutes VISIT OF MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE hospital BGU MURNAU The registration desk at the Room “Münter” is open Open Oral Session talks: 15 minutes Prof.-Küntscher-Straße 8 the following days: FOR ORNITHOLOGY (MPIO) 82418 Murnau a. Staffelsee To upload and test your talk, please come to the Tel. 08841 48 0 Sunday, September 06th 17.00 – 19.00 conference office the day before your talk is sche- Monday, September 07th 08.00 – 09.30 duled. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR TALK RUNS ON Two busses will bring you the Max Planck Institute Hospital GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN A WINDOWS 7 ENVIRONMENT. Your presentation for Ornithology, Seewiesen, on Saturday. Departure Auenstraße 6 Please follow the signs. will be deleted after your talk. from the congress center (entrance hall) at 09.00, 82567 Garmisch-Partenkirchen arrival at MPIO around 10.00. Tel. 08821 77 0 Upon registration please confirm your registration Location: LECTURE HALL 1 AND 2 We will organize guided tours for a duration of for one of the excursions, for the Social Dinner and approx. 2.5 hours. After a lunchbreak at the mo- POLICE Department MURNAU for the visit of Max Planck Institute for Ornithology nastery of Andechs the busses will bring you back Barbarastraße 9 in Seewiesen. POSTER presentation to Murnau around 15.00. 82418 Murnau a. Staffelsee Tel. 08841 61 76 0 Upon registration you´ll get more detailed information. BEST POSTER awarD Poster presentations are divided into two parts á ROADSIDE assistance (ADAC) two days – Monday/Tuesday and Thursday/Friday. Tel. 0180 22 22 22 Posters will be changed on Wednesday. INTERNET ACCESS The Best Poster Award is open for every poster TOURIST information MURNAU presentation and will be awarded by the Jury. The Posters must be A0 size maximum, in portrait Kohlgruber Straße 1 Poster Award Ceremony, to which everybody is invi- orientation (vertical), so 84.1 cm wide x 118.9 cm Free WLAN Access is available at the conference 82418 Murnau a. Staffelsee ted to join, will take place on Thursday, September high. Mounting material will be provided. center. There´s no code required. Te. 08841 61 41 0 10th, after the Social Dinner. www.murnau.de During the “Open Bar”, poster session continues. FOOD RENT-A-CAR BEST ORAL presentation FOR Please see poster list for scheduling St.-Martin-Straße 17 (also available online) 82418 Murnau a. Staffelsee JUNIOR participants During the coffee breaks coffee, tea and water will Tel. 08821 93 42 42 Location: ROOM ‘STAFFELSEE’ AND ROOM 3 be provided. You´ll have the opportunity to get more snacks and drinks at the Restaurant “Auszeit”, next taxi SERVICE MURNAU This award is open for every oral presentation of to the conference venue. Taxi Cavallino junior participants. The winner will be selected by EXCURSION A range of restaurants is available within walking Tel. 08841 12 17 all participants with the help of a voting sheet. The distance of the conference center. Award Ceremony will take place on Friday, September Stockbauer Taxi 11th, during the Closing Remarks of Ole N. Larsen. ATTENTION: due to the large number of regis- Tel. 08841 91 30 trations for the ´Murnauer Moos hike’ (more than 120), we offer a third exciting possibility to spend TRAIN Station MURNAU EXHIBITORS the free afternoon. Bahnhofsplatz 1 We booked about 50 places on a round-trip boat 82418 Murnau a. Staffelsee on the ´Staffelsee´, the marvelous lake close to ALL CONFERENCE STAFF CAN BE RECOGNIZED Noldus | The Netherlands Murnau. Eighty minutes of sightseeing with a wa- BY THEIR BLUE T-SHIRTS AND BADGES. IF YOU BUS Station Metris B.V. | The Netherlands terfall, wonderful nature and a nice place to sit are HavE ANY QUESTIONS, ANYONE OF US WILL BE Kohlgruber Straße 1 Location: FOYER OF THE CONFERENCE VENUE offered to all who join in the boat trip. HAPPY TO HELP. ■ 82418 Murnau a. Staffelsee 7 8 PROGRAM SCHEDULE in the monkey brain 13.30 – 15.30 SYMPOSIUM 4 SUNDay | Sept 6th, 2015 TUESDay | Sept 8th, 2015 Ecoacoustics 13.00 – 14.30 LUNCH Jerôme Sueur 17.00 – 19.00 Registration 14.30 – 16.30 SYMPOSIUM 2 08.30 – 09.30 Plenary TALK 13.30 Pieretti Nadia Communication over various Daniel Robert Application of a recently intro- spatial scales Sound frequency analysis through duced acoustic index in marine MONDay | Sept 7th, 2015 Fanny Rybak cochlea-like mechanism in an soundscapes of a shallow water Thierry Aubin insect coast (Lampedusa Island, Italy) 08.00 – 09.30 Registration 14.30 Rohini Balakrishnan 09.30 – 10.00 COFFEE BREAK 13.50 Susan Parks Determinants and consequences of Ecological insights form bioacou- 09.30 – 10.00 Welcome/Opening acoustic baffling behaviour in tree 10.00 – 12.00 SYMPOSIUM 3 stics activity levels measured from Manfred Gahr crickets Acoustic communication long-term acoustic monitoring at of arthropods NEON observatory sites 10.00 – 11.00 Plenary TALK 14.50 Paulo Fonseca Tony Robillard Mike Ryan Acoustic active space in the 14.10 Gianni Pavan What you hear ain’t what you get Lusitanian toadfish and the effect 10.00 Stefan Schoeneich SABIOD Italy: A pilot study of wild of anthropogenic noise Neurobiology of acoustic soundscapes. The RNI Sassofratino 11.00 – 13.00 SYMPOSIUM 1 communication: Neural networks pilot study Control of vocal production 15.10 Max Ringler for singing and song pattern Coen Elemans Acoustic ranging in Poison Frogs. recognition in crickets 14.30 Diego Llusia Sue Anne Zollinger Allobates femoralis uses signal Heterospecific songs influence cues beyond intensity to assess 10.20 Camille Desjonquères dawn chorusing in forest bird 11.00 Friedrich Ladich caller distance Acoustic diversity in freshwater communities Sound-producing mechanisms habitats: the effect of lateral con- and neuronal control in fishes: A 15.30 Ole N. Larsen nectivity in a riverine floodplain 14.50 Stowell Dan unique diversity in vertebrates Call transmission advantage for Classifying multiple bird species parrots at dawn in tropical dry 10.40 Ranjana Jaiswara in crowdsourced smartphone audio 11.20 Marcos Gridi-Papp forest Species boundary delineation Laryngeal muscles and vocal using multiple approaches: A case Frédéric Bertucci control in amphibians and 15.50 Clément Cornec study on a field cricket genus 15.10 Large scale acoustic survey as reptiles Booming far: the long-range vocal Teleogryllus in India a new tool for the evaluation of communication of a lekking bird coral reef biodiversity