Publications

Preprints and submitted manuscripts:

Freitas B, Gil D, Thébaud C, Milá B (submitted) Song as a behavioural pre-mating barrier in early population divergence: Insights from the Canary Islands Chaffinch. bioRxiv

2025

Best P, Araya-Salas M, Ekström AG, Freitas B,… Marxer R (2025) Bioacoustic fundamental frequency estimation: a cross-species dataset and deep learning baseline. Bioacoustics, 34(4), 419–446
Darras K, Rountree R, …, Freitas B,… Wanger TC (2025) Worldwide Soundscapes: a synthesis of passive acoustic monitoring across realms. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 34: e70021
Freitas B, D’Amelio PB, Milá B, Thébaud C, Janicke T (2025) Meta-analysis of the acoustic adaptation hypothesis reveals no support for the effect of vegetation structure on acoustic signalling across terrestrial vertebrates. Biological Reviews 100: 815-833

2024

Challéat S, Farrugia N, …, Freitas B,… Zina V (2024) A dataset of acoustic measurements from soundscapes collected worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientific Data, 11: 928

2023

Freitas B, Bas Y, Robert A, Doutrelant C, Melo M (2023) Passive Acoustic Monitoring in difficult terrains: the case of the Principe Scops-Owl. Biodiversity and Conservation, 32: 3109–3132
Freitas B, Melo M, do Bom Jesus C, da Costa SR, dos Santos Y, Crottini A, de Lima RF (2023) The recently discovered Principe Scops-owl is highly threatened: distribution, habitat associations, and population estimates. Bird Conservation International, 33: e39

2022

Melo M, Freitas B, Verbelen P, da Costa SR, Pereira H, Fuchs J, Sangster G, Correia MN, de Lima RF, Crottini A (2022) A new species of scops-owl (Aves, Strigiformes, Strigidae, Otus) from Príncipe Island (Gulf of Guinea, Africa) and novel insights into the systematic affinities within Otus. Zookeys 1126: 1-54

2021

Lopes RJ, Faria PMV, Gomes D, Freitas B, Málinger J (2021) The Hummingbird Collection of the Natural History and Science Museum of the University of Porto (MHNC-UP), Portugal. Biodiversity Data Journal 9: e59913