Outputs (17)

Assessing the impact of festival music on bat activity (2023)
Journal Article

Sound is a critical component of an animal's habitat, where it is used to glean important environmental information from their surroundings. The modification of natural soundscapes due to the global rise in anthropogenic noise pollution over recent d... Read More about Assessing the impact of festival music on bat activity.

Standardised and referenced acoustic monitoring reliably estimates bat fatalities at wind turbines: Comments on ‘Limitations of acoustic monitoring at wind turbines to evaluate fatality risk of bats’ (2023)
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Voigt et al. (2021) provide a thorough analysis of the restrictions inherent to the estimation of bat abundance from acoustic surveys, and conclude that limitations of acoustic monitoring impede the reliable evaluation of bat fatalities at wind turbi... Read More about Standardised and referenced acoustic monitoring reliably estimates bat fatalities at wind turbines: Comments on ‘Limitations of acoustic monitoring at wind turbines to evaluate fatality risk of bats’.

What drives bat activity at field boundaries? (2022)
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Field boundaries are important habitat for bats in agricultural landscapes, serving as commuting and foraging areas for many species. The goal of our study was to better understand the drivers of bat activity in agricultural landscapes to inform cons... Read More about What drives bat activity at field boundaries?.

Sexual segregation occurs in bats within fragmented remnant woodlands in an agricultural landscape (2022)
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Species-specific responses to landscape configuration and landscape composition have been studied extensively. However, little work has been done to compare intraspecific differences in habitat preferences. Bats have potential as good bioindicator ta... Read More about Sexual segregation occurs in bats within fragmented remnant woodlands in an agricultural landscape.

Lighting up our waterways: Impacts of a current mitigation strategy on Riparian bats (2022)
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Increasing levels of artificial light at night (ALAN) are a major threat to global biodiversity and can have negative impacts on a wide variety of organisms and their ecosystems. Nocturnal species such as bats are highly vulnerable to the detrimental... Read More about Lighting up our waterways: Impacts of a current mitigation strategy on Riparian bats.

Peaks in bat activity at turbines and the implications for mitigating the impact of wind energy developments on bats (2021)
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Wind turbines are a relatively new threat to bats, causing mortalities worldwide. Reducing these fatalities is essential to ensure that the global increase in wind-energy facilities can occur with minimal impact on bat populations. Although individua... Read More about Peaks in bat activity at turbines and the implications for mitigating the impact of wind energy developments on bats.

Satellite megaclusters could fox night-time migrations (2020)
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An evidence-based approach to specifying survey effort in ecological assessments of bat activity (2019)
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Robust ecological assessments are fundamental for effective wildlife conservation. Owing to the high legal protection of bats, surveys are frequently required as part of ecological assessments. Yet there is uncertainty about the amount of survey effo... Read More about An evidence-based approach to specifying survey effort in ecological assessments of bat activity.

Ecobat: An online resource to facilitate transparent, evidence-based interpretation of bat activity data (2017)
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© 2017 The Authors. Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Acoustic surveys of bats are one of the techniques most commonly used by ecological practitioners. The results are used in Ecological Impact Assessments to assess the lik... Read More about Ecobat: An online resource to facilitate transparent, evidence-based interpretation of bat activity data.

Basic mathematical errors may make ecological assessments unreliable (2017)
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© 2017, The Author(s). Environmental impact assessments (EIAs) are used globally as the evidence-base for planning decisions, yet their efficacy is uncertain. Given that EIAs are extremely expensive and are enshrined in legislation, their place in ev... Read More about Basic mathematical errors may make ecological assessments unreliable.