Dr. Karl-Heinz Frommolt

Tasks

Scientific Head of the Animal Sound Archive

Head of the Bioacoustics Laboratory

Research

Bioacoustic monitoring

Research projects

• Automated acoustic detection und acoustic pattern recognition
• Automated Multisensor Station for Monitoring of Species Diversity (AMMOD)
• Automated Detection, Localisation and Tracking of Birds and Vocal Animal Species by means of Intelligent Acoustic Sensor Technology (DeViSe)
• Integrative analysis of the influence of pesticides and landuse on biodiversity in Germany (INPEDIV)
• Developing the animal sound archive as a digital research collection
• Reference library for bat calls

Publications (selection)

Wägele, J. W., Bodesheim, P., Bourlat, S. J., Denzler, J., Diepenbroek, M., Fonseca, V., Frommolt, K.-H., Geiger, M. F., Gemeinholzer, B., Glöckner, F. O., Haucke, T., Kirse, A., Kölpin, A., Kostadinov, I., Kühl, H. S., Kurth, F., Lasseck, M., Liedke, S., Losch, F., Müller, S., Petrovskaya, N., Piotrowski, K., Radig, B., Scherber, C., Schoppmann, L., Schulz, J., Steinhage, V., Tschan, G. F., Vautz, W., Velotto, D., Weigend, M., and Wildermann, S. (2022). "Towards a multisensor station for automated biodiversity monitoring". Basic and Applied Ecology 59: 105-138.

Baggenstoss, P. M., Frommolt, K.-H., Jahn, O., & Kurth, F. (2021). "Separation of Bird Calls and DOA estimation using a 4-Microphone Array." 2021 29th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)166-170.   

Anichini, M., K.-H. Frommolt and G. U. C. Lehmann (2018). "To compete or not to compete: bushcricket song plasticity reveals male body condition and rival distance." Animal Behaviour 142: 59-68.

Frommolt, K.-H. (2017). "Information obtained from long-term acoustic recordings: applying bioacoustic techniques for monitoring wetland birds during breeding season." Journal of Ornithology 158: 659-668. doi: 10.1007/s10336-016-1426-3.

Bowling, D. L., M. Garcia, J. C. Dunn, R. Ruprecht, A. Stewart, K. H. Frommolt and W. T. Fitch (2017). "Body size and vocalization in primates and carnivores." Scientific Reports 7: 41070. doi: 10.1038/srep41070.
    
ten Hagen, L., A. Rodriguez, N. Menke, C. Göcking, M. Bisping, K.-H. Frommolt, T. Ziegler, M. Bonkowski and M. Vences (2016). "Vocalizations in juvenile anurans: common spadefoot toads (Pelobates fuscus) regularly emit calls before sexual maturity." The Science of Nature 103: 75. doi:10.1007/s00114-016-1401-0.

Frommolt, K.-H. (2016). Lauschangriff auf die Natur - Akustische Erfassungen während der Brutzeit im Polder 10 des Nationalparks Unteres Odertal. Nationalpark-Jahrbuch Unteres Odertal. Bd. 13: 96-106.

Lehmann, G. U. C., K.-H. Frommolt, A. W. Lehmann and K. Riede (2014). "Baseline data for automated acoustic monitoring of Orthoptera in a Mediterranean landscape, the Hymettos, Greece." Journal of Insect Conservation 18: 909-925.

Frommolt, K.-H. and K.-H. Tauchert (2014). "Applying bioacoustic methods for long-term monitoring of a nocturnal wetland bird." Ecological Informatics 21: 4-12.

Bardeli, R., D. Wolff, F. Kurth, M. Koch, K.-H. Tauchert and K.-H. Frommolt (2010). "Detecting bird sounds in a complex acoustic environment and application to bioacoustic monitoring." Pattern Recognition Letters 31: 1524-1534.