Estimating colony sizes of emerging bats using acoustic recordings

The decline of bats demands more widespread monitoring of populations for conservation and management. Current censusing methods are either prone to bias or require costly equipment. Here, we report a new method using passive acoustics to determine bat count census from overall acoustic amplitude of...

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Main Authors: Laura N. Kloepper, Meike Linnenschmidt, Zelda Blowers, Brian Branstetter, Joel Ralston, James A. Simmons
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Royal Society 2016-01-01
Series:Royal Society Open Science
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Online Access:https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.160022