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Forum Acusticum 2026

8–12 Sept 2026
Europe/Vienna timezone

Session

A02.02 Effects of noise and light on terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity

A02.02
8 Sept 2026, 15:20

Conveners

A02.02 Effects of noise and light on terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity: S009

  • Dick Botteldooren (U-Ghent)

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  1. 3840. Disentangling Animal Vocalisations and Anthropogenic Sound to Assess Noise Effects on Biodiversity (FA2026/685)
    Dick Botteldooren (U-Ghent)
    08/09/2026, 15:20
    A02 Bio-acoustics

    Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) has become a widely used tool for biodiversity assessment, particularly for monitoring vocalising animal species. However, in soundscapes dominated by natural or urban background noise, or in the presence of human voices, reliable detection and classification of animal vocalisations becomes challenging for widely used pretrained classifiers, such as BirdNET,...

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  2. 3841. When Mountains Meet the City: Hybrid Soundscape Monitoring in Andorra la Vella with Sensors, AI and Citizen Science (ECHO-POLIS) (FA2026/5)
    Rosa Ma Alsina-Pagès (La Salle, Universitat Ramón Llull)
    08/09/2026, 15:40
    A02 Bio-acoustics

    This paper presents ECHO-POLIS, a 24-month project to characterise and interpret the soundscape of a mountain city—Andorra la Vella and Escaldes-Engordany—through a hybrid approach that integrates objective acoustic monitoring, AI-based source analysis, and citizen perception. The experimental design combines a fixed sensor network deployed across contrasting urban typologies (pedestrian...

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  3. 3842. Assessing the impact of outdoor music festivals on biodiversity (FA2026/182)
    Marcel Kok (U-Ghent)
    08/09/2026, 16:00
    A02 Bio-acoustics

    Outdoor music festivals are often organized outside urban areas to minimize nuisances for city dwellers. This results in possible proximity of festivals to natural areas and potential impact on biodiversity in these areas. However, assessments of festival impact often use anthropocentric modelling or monitoring, approaches. Music is targeted at human experience and therefore its frequency...

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  4. 3843. Towards biodiversity-aware road traffic noise mitigation measures (FA2026/321)
    Timothy Van Renterghem (Ghent University)
    08/09/2026, 16:20
    A02 Bio-acoustics

    Environmental noise of anthropogenic origin is increasingly recognized as a major threat to biodiversity in natural areas. These areas are often intersected by major highways, exposing large adjacent zones to road traffic noise. Current knowledge and guidelines on traffic noise mitigation are largely focused on human listeners. However, road traffic noise, outdoor sound propagation, mitigation...

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  5. 3844. AI-supported Large-Scale Passive Acoustic Biodiversity Monitoring in German National Parks (FA2026/619)
    Ursula Verfuss (NA Nature Analytics GmbH)
    08/09/2026, 16:40
    A02 Bio-acoustics

    Large-scale, standardized biodiversity monitoring is critical for assessing ecosystem responses to climate change and increasing anthropogenic pressures in protected areas. The KI-Nationalpark project establishes a nationwide biodiversity monitoring network across 13 national parks and two wilderness areas in Germany. Combining camera trapping with passive acoustic monitoring over a 13-month...

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