Foraging guild modulates insectivorous bat responses to habitat loss and insular fragmentation in peninsular Malaysia

QCK Hazard, JSP Froidevaux, N Yoh, J Moore… - Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Despite mounting evidence on the ecological impacts of damming for biodiversity, little is
known regarding its consequences in the hyper-diverse Southeast Asian tropical forests …

[HTML][HTML] A machine learning framework to classify Southeast Asian echolocating bats

N Yoh, T Kingston, E McArthur, OE Aylen… - Ecological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Bats comprise a quarter of all mammal species, provide key ecosystem services and serve
as effective bioindicators. Automated methods for classifying echolocation calls of free-flying …

[HTML][HTML] An efficient neural network design incorporating autoencoders for the classification of bat echolocation sounds

S Alipek, M Maelzer, Y Paumen, H Schauer-Weisshahn… - Animals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Bats play a crucial role as bioindicators of environmental changes, making
their monitoring highly valuable. In particular, wind energy plants have been found to cause …

[HTML][HTML] ecoSound-web: An open-source, online platform for ecoacoustics

KFA Darras, N Pérez, L Dilong, T Hanf-Dressler… - …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Passive acoustic monitoring of soundscapes and biodiversity produces vast amounts of
audio recordings, but the management and analysis of these raw data present technical …

Automatic bat call classification using transformer networks

F Fundel, DA Braun, S Gottwald - Ecological Informatics, 2023 - Elsevier
Automatically identifying bat species from their echolocation calls is a difficult but important
task for monitoring bats and the ecosystem they live in. Major challenges in automatic bat …

Distribution of ghost bats of the genus Diclidurus Wied-Neuwied 1820 (Chiroptera: Emballonuridae) in Venezuela, with a review of their vocal signatures

BW Miller, JG Ochoa, FJ Garcia… - Acta …, 2023 - ingentaconnect.com
We update the distributions in Venezuela for the four species of ghost bats of the genus
Diclidurus taxonomically recognized and provide additional information on their …

Worldwide Soundscapes: a synthesis of passive acoustic monitoring across realms

KFA Darras, R Rountree, S Van Wilgenburg, AF Cord… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The need for remote, reliable, and scalable monitoring of plummeting biodiversity amidst
mounting human pressures on ecosystems and changing climate has sparked enormous …

Multiple dimensions of biodiversity in paleotropical hotspots reveal comparable bat diversity

I Tanshi, BC Obitte, A Monadjem, SJ Rossiter… - Biotropica, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Bat species commonly comprise at least 50% of tropical mammalian assemblages, but
Afrotropical bat faunas have been little studied leading to perceptions that they are …

Acoustic ecology of terrestrial mammals: a new Signaller–Receiver Conceptual Framework

RM Stein, JL Rachlow - Mammal Review, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Mammals use sound for a variety of purposes, such as detecting the presence of others and
maintaining social bonds. Much research on mammalian acoustics has been focussed on …

Diversity and plasticity of vocalisations in an elusive and arboreal small mammal: the edible dormouse (Glis glis)

C Bartrina, C Llanos-Guerrero, N Valls, L Freixas… - Bioacoustics, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The acoustics of small mammals, particularly dormice species, are generally understudied.
During this study, we explored the vocalisations and acoustic behaviour of the edible …