Call for Abstracts

Call for abstracts is now open!

The 6th World Ecoacoustics Congress (WEC) will include scientific presentations aimed to introduce and discuss new research, and advances in ecoacoustics.

Ecoacoustics is an interdisciplinary science that investigates natural and anthropogenic sounds, and their relationship with the environment over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales, including populations, communities, and landscapes. Ecoacoustics operates in all types of terrestrial (air and soil) and aquatic (freshwater and marine) ecosystems.

Ecoacoustics recognises that sounds can be both the tools and subject of ecological research. As tools, sounds are used to study and monitor animal diversity, abundance, behaviour, dynamics and distribution, and their relationship with ecosystems and the environment. As the subject, sounds are investigated in order to understand their evolution, functions and properties under environmental pressures.

We are excited to announce that the call for abstracts is now open and invite you to submit your proposal at this upcoming event, scheduled for 17th-20th of August 2026, in Cairns (Gimuy), Australia.

Abstract submissions

Submissions close on the 28th of March 2026.

Communication formats

Three communication formats are available for the 6th WEC:

  • Open talks: Oral communications presented in a scientific session for a maximum of 12 minutes (plus 3 minutes of questions).
  • Speed talks: Oral communication presented in a scientific session for a maximum of 5 minutes (no individual question time; questions will be at the end to all the presenters).
  • Posters: Visual reports displayed in printed format the presenting author will stand by the poster and interact with WEC attendees for 45 minutes in a poster session.

Talks and posters will be organised by common themes and topics within the scientific program.

Submission guidelines

If you are interested in submitting an abstract, please fill this form in and submit it before March 28th 2026. After assessment of the abstracts received by the Scientific and Advisory committees, the author will be notified of their proposal outcome before April 15th 2026. If accepted, the author will be invited to register and will be contacted by the technical secretariat for further details.

If the abstract you’re submitting is a research proposal (i.e., the research will still be beginning at or after the time of the congress) it should be submitted as a speed talk or poster.

If you’re a student and would like to be considered and judged for the WEC2026 student awards, please indicate so in the appropriate sections in the abstract submission form.

Please submit your abstract via the online submission form with the following information:

  • ​Presenting author
    • Full first (lower case) followed by family name(s) in CAPS
    • Title or position
    • Affiliation or organisation (Department, Institution, Country)
    • Email address
  • Co-authors
    • First initial and family name(s)
    • Title or position
    • Affiliation or organisation (Department, Institution, Country)
    • Email address
  • Title
  • Abstract (max. 300 words)
    • Please provide a brief overview of the communication, highlighting its significance to the scope of the WEC. The abstract should have the following structure (not mentioning the headings): Introduction, Methods, Results and clusions.
  • Related topics (up to three): please, follow our list of topics whenever possible (although new topics can be added). We will try our best to fit the talks into the indicated topic, but be aware that due to room limitations this might not always be possible.
    • Topic 1
    • Topic 2
    • Topic 3
  • Proposed format: please, select one of the following options
    • Open talk
    • Speed talk
    • Poster
  • Is this submission part of an organised symposia? Only select ‘yes’ if you have been invited by the symposia organisers to submit the abstract to their session.
    • Yes/No
    • If yes, you’ll be asked the symposia title and lead chairperson name

Topics

The options are grouped by the headings of the topics, and the subheadings are examples of such topics - but not limited to. Choose the topic that best applies to your abstract.

Conservation technology

  • Integration of systems for biodiversity monitoring
  • Real-time monitoring
  • New techniques for analysis of acoustic data

Soundscapes

  • Soundscapes at the landscape level
  • Landscape monitoring following disturbances
  • Biophony/anthrophony/geophony interactions through soundscape analysis

Ecological inference using ecoacoustics

  • Community level analysis integrating PAM and ML
  • Statistical techniques to infer occupancy and abundance from ML outputs in PAM
  • Abundance estimation using PAM

Applied ecoacoustics

  • Applications to industry
  • Conservation science and management
  • Applications in the natural resource management context

Monitoring

  • Populations and dynamics
  • Protected areas
  • Community driven projects & outcomes
  • Ecosystem health
  • Cryptic and endangered species
  • Taxa-specific programmes
  • Ecosystem services
  • Pre/post Disturbances
  • Sensor networks

Future-forward/innovative

  • Grand challenges & future directions
  • New ecological hypothesis and theories based on acoustic research

Water

  • Freshwater acoustics
  • Marine acoustics

Arts

  • Ecoacoustics in the arts
  • Cultural importance of environmental sounds