5th African Bioacoustics Community Conference

Finding Bilbo: Acoustic monitoring and call analysis of the Critically Endangered Bilbo's Rain Frog (Breviceps bagginsi)

Tiaan Botha

Passive acoustic monitoring as a tool for assessing ecosystem gradients in Africa’s tropical savannah

Consolata Gitau

Signals in the Noise: What can snapping shrimp tell us about changing environments?

Ashlee Lillis

Comparing point counts, passive acoustic monitoring, citizen science and machine learning for bird species monitoring in the Mount Kenya ecosystem

Ciira wa Maina

Vocal repertoire of cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) in the wild: call types, acoustic parameters and behavioural contexts

Elena Chelysheva

Cognition in African Penguin vocal communication

Livio Favaro

Insights into the Acoustic Signatures of Antarctic Blue Whales and an Unidentified Great Whale in the Southeastern Atlantic Ocean

Mangala Gowri

Elephant acoustic focal follow recording

David Lolchuraki

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the West Coast: Temporal trends in fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) vocalizations off the west coast of South Africa

Emma Swanepoel

Multi-scale influences of topography, climate, and geology on avian species richness across an elevational gradient

Mosikidi Toka

Comparing machine-learned and engineered acoustic features for estimating animal species richness in the Cape Region of South Africa

Matthew Clark

Evaluating Audio Compression Methods for Passive Acoustic Monitoring and Automated Species Detection

Karina Kniel

WildNotes: AI-assisted voice transcription and automated behavioral coding of field observations

Diane Kim

Toward Real-Time Avian Bioacoustic Monitoring on Low-Resource Edge Devices Using Knowledge Distillation

Munene Mutuma

Age, Sex and Contextual Correlates of Nonlinear Phenomena in African Forest Elephants

Andrew Volynsky

Social context information and acoustic convergence in elephant vocal choruses

Louis Mahon

Passive acoustic monitoring of the endangered Central American humpback whale population at wintering areas off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica and Panama

Illaria Coero Borga

What do BirdNET Embeddings Capture: the Singer, the Song, or the Setting?

P. Akashram

Cross-Taxa Transfer Learning for Low-Resource Bioacoustic Monitoring: From Frogs to Pikas

Ankita Shukla

Landscape-scale ecological monitoring, species by species: Considerations for developing occupancy models from passive acoustics in African savannas

Jay McEntee

Seasonal Habitat Selection of African Forest Elephants Revealed by Acoustic Monitoring and Spaceborne Lidar

Jenna Keany

SUW-PAM: a journey of bioacoustic in Senegal

Théophile Bayet

Using functionally representative bird species and passive acoustic monitoring to model ecological variation across a land use mosaic in a dryland system

Frowin Becker

Spatial Patterns of Bird Diversity and Community Structure in Tropical Dryland Smallholder Agroecosystems: Evidence from Passive Bioacoustics in Makueni County, Kenya

Peter Bolo

Listening to the thicket: The use of bioacoustics monitoring for assessing bird and bat responses to habitat degradation in the Karoo Succulent Thicket

Helen Napier

From Forest Interior To City Centre: Impact Of Urban Environmental Pressures On Owl Distribution

Leon Tshuma

Geographic variation within the whistle repertoire of Indian Ocean humpback dolphins, Sousa plumbea, across their species range

Sasha Dines

Sharing a Crowded Space: How Co-occurring Bladder Grasshoppers Partition the Night

Maxine Laubscher

New Insights: Impacts of Fireworks Sounds on Marine Species

Rachel Probert

Solar and lunar rhythms shape the acoustic behaviour of marine mammals

Fannie Shabangu

A 45,000 km Acoustic Transect: An Invitation to Analyse Africa’s Major River Soundscapes

Michael Ross

Underwater Soundscapes of South Africa

Simon Elwen

Validation and Application of an Underwater Radiated Noise Framework for Assessing Shipping Noise

Akula Chaturvedi

DeepForestSound: a multi-species automatic detector for passive acoustic monitoring in African tropical forests, a case study in Kibale National Park

Gabriel Dubus

Baseline characterization of inshore reef soundscapes and noise dynamics along the southeast coast of South Africa

Kuhle Hlati

Sounds in the shallow: inshore acoustic occurrence of baleen whales on the west coast of South Africa

Nosipho Gumede

Edge effects on birds in a West African tropical forest

Joshua Brown

From Behaviour to Morphology: Evidence for anti-bat adaptations in Neuroptera

Anza Simon

Why PAM deployments fail?

Iqbal Bhalla

From Calls to Ecological Inference: An End-to-End Bioacoustics Monitoring Workflow for Bats

Dimitris Christopoulos

Addressing Tropical Forest Monitoring Gaps with Passive Acoustic Surveys in Budongo Forest, Uganda

Jonathan Ongongo

Bioacoustic Monitoring as a Tool for Assessing Biodiversity Uplift in Restored Mangrove Ecosystems of Marereni, Kenya

Julius Sila

Alarm calls of nine African antelopes: species identification guide

Antonina Solopva

Diel acoustic signatures as habitat classifiers support soundscape monitoring as a scalable tool for land-use classification in West African forest mosaics

Bawa Sulemana

Scaling the NOAA Passive Acoustic Data Archive to Enable Global Bioacoustic Science

Carrie Wall

Voices of the Forest: Protecting Wildlife and Cultivating Local Expertise in the Central African Republic

Ivonne Kienast

Building capacity for applied bioacoustics research in Africa: Insights from a field-based training programme

Donovan Tye

The Sound of Silence: An Immersive Approach to Spearfishermen’s Ecological Knowledge Along the Dakar Coastline

Timothée Brochier

Integrating ecological surveys and local knowledge to assess the conservation status of the Grey Parrot in southeastern Nigeria

Mercy Ngozi Okafor

Citizen Science: A journey into Bioacoustics in East Africa

Martha Mutiso

A Comparative Bioacoustic Analysis of Birdsong and Sacred Flute Music in the Sepik and Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea

Paul Howden-Leach