Identifying bats from time-expanded recordings of search calls: Comparing classification methods

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1601-1614

  Preatoni, Damiano G ^a   Nodari, Mosè ^a   Chirichella, Roberta ^a   Tosi, Guido ^a   Wauters, Luc A ^a   Martinoli, Adriano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Bat detector; Bats; Classification; Conservation; Discriminant function analysis; Echolocation; Italy; Rhinolophidae; Vespertilionidae

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BAT; ECHOLOCATION; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TAXONOMY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

MYOTIS; RHINOLOPHIDAE; RHINOLOPHUS; VESPERTILIONIDAE;

EID: 33645680017     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/0022-541X(2005)69[1601:IBFTRO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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