Ecoacoustics project of EFForTS

Manager: Ilham

The ecoacoustics project of the Collaborative Research Center 990 (EFForTS), led by the B09 subproject. Featuring soundscapes from Jambi province, Indonesia.

Reference collections for Anura, Chiroptera, and Primata

Managers: Matthias Markolf, Kevin FA Darras

A worldwide open database of soundscape recording datasets across realms

We collate and analyse passive acoustic monitoring datasets from the terrestrial, marine, freshwater, and subterranean realms for the a global, comprehensive, quantitative synthesis of soundscapes.

The project is open to collaborators providing passive, spatially or temporally replicated meta-datasets.

Manager: Kevin FA Darras

Individual collections that are not part of larger projects, created for sharing soundscape recordings.

Interactions between landscape structure and combined agri-environmental measures on bird activity and species richness

Manager: Isabelle Arimond

Pollination and predation services in macadamia orchards (Limpopo, South Africa)

Participatory project on the ecological impact, economic efficiency and governance of cooperative agri-environmental measures

Manager: Isabelle Arimond

Co-design of ecologically and economically efficient policy instruments and measures for conserving biodiversity and ecosystem services in cultural landscapes

Manager: Ryo Ogawa

Effects of sustainable resource use and small-scale habitat restoration on palearctic migrants and resident bird communities in the Sahel zone of Burkina Faso

Manager: Gabriel Marcacci

World Oceans Passive Acoustic Monitoring Day

ECO-OLIVES - Ecological management of European olive agroforestry: linking biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services and productivity

Agroforestry systems can benefit from insectivorous birds and bats which provide important ecosystem services such as pest control at local scales and thus prevent disease outbreaks and enhance crop yields. However, biodiversity of olive and other farming systems in Europe is increasingly threatened by fast expanding intensive olive monocultures that most often replace biodiversity-rich traditional farming activities, leading to an impaired provision of ecosystem services. This project aims to provide a combined assessment of functional diversity, multitrophic interactions of birds, bats and arthropods, as well as associated ecosystem services and socio-ecological implications for olive agroforests of Italy.

Manager: Tara Hanf-Dressler

Sound recordings from various seabird colonies on islands in the Atlantic Ocean basin

Project manager: Steffen Oppel

Citizen Science Projekt BioWaWi: Soundscapes of the Region of Bühl, Germany, are collected to measure the biodiversity of certain habitats influenced by water.

Manager: Gisela Wachinger

Dry summers leave their mark on Switzerland's forests: many trees have sparse crowns and die off. These developments pose challenges for forest owners, forestry services and society - but they also offer big opportunities for the biodiversity. The Swiss Ornithological Institute is working with partners to protect forests suffering from drought stress so that they are left to decompose for 30 years. Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) is used to record changes in the composition of breeding birds.

Manager: Thomas Sattler

Despite underwater soundscapes of freshwater habitats being sonically rich, they are largely undocumented. This is a space to combine our efforts and learn more about the aquatic world of ponds, lakes, and rivers.

Managers: David de la Haye and Jack Greenhalgh

Biodiversitäts-Bewertung von Biotoptypen durch Maschinelles Lernen anhand von Citizen-Science-Tonaufnahmen und Satellitenbildern (Bio-O-Ton)

Manager: Gisela Wachinger

Passive acoustic monitoring of birds, grasshoppers, and bats in Pine-Oak Tree mixtures of Central France

Project manager: Christine Cassin

Passive acoustic monitoring datasets from the French RENECOFOR (ICP level 2) sites in the frame of the PEPR FORESTT (2024-2030)

Manager: Simon de Selys

Biodiversity monitoring using bioacoustics in Ouadi Rimé-Ouadi Achim Wildlife Reserve, Chad.

Project manager: Gabriel Marcacci