Indicator Bats Program: A System for the Global Acoustic Monitoring of Bats

Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation: Bridging the Gap between Global Commitment and Local Action

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 211-247

  Jones, Kate E ^a,b,m   Russ, Jon A ^b   Bashta, Andriy Taras ^c,d   Bilhari, Zoltálan ^e   Catto, Colin ^b   Csosz, István ^f   Gorbachev, Alexander ^g,h   Gyorfi, Páleter ^e   Hughes, Alice ⁱ   Ivashkiv, Igor ^c,d   Koryagina, Natalia ^g   Kurali, Anikálo ^e   Langton, Steve ^b   Collen, Alanna ^a   Margiean, Georgiana ^f   Pandourski, Ivan ^j   Parsons, Stuart ^k   Prokofev, Igor ^g,h   Szodoray Paradi, Abigel ^f   Szodoray Paradi, Farkas ^f   Tilova, Elena ^l   Walters, Charlotte L ^a,b   Weatherill, Aidan ^a   Zavarzin, Oleg ^g   more..

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b BAT CONSERVATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c Animals Research and Protection Association Fauna   (Ukraine)

^d INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

^e Nature Foundation   (Hungary)

^f Romanian Bat Protection Association   (Romania)

^g PERESVET   (Russian Federation)

^h BRYANSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^j INSTITUTE OF BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH   (Bulgaria)

^k UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^l The Green Balkans Stara Zagora ^*  (Bulgaria)

^m UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

Global acoustic monitoring; Indicator bats program (iBats); Ultrasonic biodiversity; Ultrasonic indicator

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887260657     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118490747.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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