Do you hear what I hear? Implications of detector selection for acoustic monitoring of bats

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 992-998

  Adams, Amanda M ^a   Jantzen, Meredith K ^a   Hamilton, Rachel M ^a   Fenton, Melville Brockett ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acoustic detector selection; Bat activity; Bats; Echolocation; Passive acoustic monitoring; Synthetic signals

Indexed keywords

LASIURUS CINEREUS;

EID: 84871030605     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2012.00244.x     Document Type: Article

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