TEOSS at ECOC IV

We have participated at ECOC IV, the fourth European Congress of Orthoptera Conservation organized in Rovereto (Italy), from 4 to 6 July, where we could present TEOSS to the colleagues from all over Europe and forster collaboration in the project.

Florent Prunier has presented the talk Training for building a European Orthoptera sound database in front of the audience of European orthopterists, highlighting the project’s efforts to develop a comprehensive sound database for European orthoptera species. The Book of abstracts of the conference is available at the Fondazione Museo Civico di Rovereto’s website.

The following two talks were also dedicated to bioaccoustic and were presented by trainers participating in TEOSS project. Francisco Rivas Funzalida presented his Rthoptera, a New Open-source Software for Standardized Insect Bioacoustics and Baudewijn Odé the Recent progress in sharing sound recordings worldwide: Orthoptera in Xeno Canto.

David Bennett, a participant in the subsequent Verona training camp, presented on the Relative performance of passive acoustic monitoring with Audiomoth compared to traditional transect methods, and construction of an automatic machine learning classifier for Orthoptera in Schleswig Holstein, Germany.

The TEOSS project’s participation in ECOC IV was successful, facilitating connections among researchers through various communications on related themes. It also provided an opportunity to present results and tools useful for the European community of Orthoptera recordists