A continental-scale tool for acoustic identification of European bats

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1064-1074

  Walters, Charlotte L ^a,b,c   Freeman, Robin ^d,e   Collen, Alanna ^a   Dietz, Christian ^f   Brock Fenton, M ^g   Jones, Gareth ^h   Obrist, Martin K ⁱ   Puechmaille, Sébastien J ^j,k,l   Sattler, Thomas ^i,m,n   Siemers, Björn M ^k   Parsons, Stuart ^o   Jones, Kate E ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b BAT CONSERVATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^j UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^k MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^l Midi Pyrénées Bat Group CREN GCMP   (France)

^m UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

ⁿ SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^o UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

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Author keywords

Acoustic monitoring; Chiroptera; Classification; Echolocation; Ensembles of artificial neural networks; Indicator species; Species identification

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BAT; BIODIVERSITY; BIOINDICATOR; CALLING BEHAVIOR; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ECHOLOCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; IDENTIFICATION METHOD;

EUROPE;

CHIROPTERA;

EID: 84866533287     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2012.02182.x     Document Type: Article

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