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SUBMITTER: Kloepper LN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4821278 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kloepper Laura N LN Linnenschmidt Meike M Blowers Zelda Z Branstetter Brian B Ralston Joel J Simmons James A JA
Royal Society open science 20160309 3
The decline of bats demands more widespread monitoring of populations for conservation and management. Current censusing methods are either prone to bias or require costly equipment. Here, we report a new method using passive acoustics to determine bat count census from overall acoustic amplitude of the emerging bat stream. We recorded the video and audio of an emerging colony of Mexican free-tailed bats from two cave locations across multiple nights. Instantaneous bat counts were calculated fro ...[more]