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cross-posting... J.
Dear colleagues,
We are very pleased to invite you to submit a research paper
dealing with ecological acoustics for a special issue of
Ecological
Informatics.
Ecological acoustics is an emerging and exciting field of research
because it brings together ecology, animal behaviour, acoustics,
signal processing and computer science. Ecological acoustics can
provide remotely several sets of data, such as individual
behaviours, group structure, population density and dynamics,
species distribution, community structure and landscape evolution.
However, despite increasing interest, ecological acoustics remains
a comparatively new field and internationally accepted protocols
have yet to be developed. It is time, therefore, to showcase
world-class applications of ecological acoustics which demonstrate
its usefulness and suggest the way towards internationally
accepted protocols.
We therefore welcome original research on the full range of
science and technology to do with ecological acoustics, including:
. Acoustic sensing hardware
. Recording strategies/protocols
. Data management/storage
. Metadata/retrieval
. Analysis to yield ecologically useful information
. Visualisation of acoustic data
. Current examples of web-based and stand-alone software.
. Acoustic communities
. Evolution of soundscapes
All submissions must be reports of original research. Reviews and
submissions that consist only of descriptions of hardware and/or
software will not be accepted. In addition, papers on traditional
bioacoustics (that is, dealing with the distribution and behaviour
of individual species) will not be accepted because this field of
research is already well established. Papers should target
ecosystem level analyses. If in doubt please contact a guest
editor.
Please find attached the official call of paper with all
information detailed, or visit
this
page.
The issue is co-edited by Michael Towsey (Queensland University of
Technology, Australia), Stuart Parsons (University of Auckland,
New-Zealand) and Jérôme Sueur (Muséum national d'Histoire
naturelle, France).
If you intend to submit a paper please send a one or two
sentence summary of the topic (not an abstract) to one us before
December 31st 2012.
Very best regards,
The co-editors.
