Reliable automation of bat call identification for eastern New South Wales, Australia, using classification trees and Anascheme software

Acta Chiropterologica

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 231-245

  Adams, Maria D ^a   Law, Bradley S ^a   Gibson, Matthew S ^b  

^a Forest Science Centre   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anabat; Echolocation; Habitat use; Identification keys; Monitoring; Regional variation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BAT; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ECHOLOCATION; HABITAT USE; IDENTIFICATION KEY; MONITORING; PARAMETERIZATION; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; VOCALIZATION;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES;

MICROCHIROPTERA;

EID: 77953258727     PISSN: 15081109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3161/150811010X504725     Document Type: Article

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