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Natural soundscapes enhance mood recovery amid anthropogenic noise pollution (2024)
Journal Article

In urbanised landscapes, the scarcity of green spaces and increased exposure to anthropogenic noise have adverse effects on health and wellbeing. While reduced speed limits have historically been implemented to address traffic safety, their potential... Read More about Natural soundscapes enhance mood recovery amid anthropogenic noise pollution.

Re-establishing historic ecosystem links through targeted species reintroduction: Beaver-mediated wetlands support increased bat activity (2024)
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Despite the global significance of wetlands, conservation strategies often fall short in preserving these ecosystems due to failures in incorporating processes that sustain the ecosystem functioning, hydrological dynamics, ecological processes, and b... Read More about Re-establishing historic ecosystem links through targeted species reintroduction: Beaver-mediated wetlands support increased bat activity.

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

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.

Reviewing the evidence on mitigation strategies for bats in buildings informing best-practice for policy makers and practitioners (2018)
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This study aimed to provide evidence to planners, developers and ecological practitioners on the efficacy of bat roost mitigation and compensation to help them ensure that mitigation approaches are evidence-based and beneficial for bats.
Primary obj... Read More about Reviewing the evidence on mitigation strategies for bats in buildings informing best-practice for policy makers and practitioners.

Ecobat: An online resource to facilitate transparent, evidence-based interpretation of bat activity data (2017)
Journal Article

© 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.

Ecological impact assessments fail to reduce risk of bat casualties at wind farms (2016)
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Demand for renewable energy is rising exponentially. While this has benefits in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, there may be costs to biodiversity [1]. Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) are the main tool used across the world to predict the... Read More about Ecological impact assessments fail to reduce risk of bat casualties at wind farms.

Differential responses of cryptic bat species to the urban landscape (2016)
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© 2016 Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Urbanization is a key global driver in the modification of land use and has been linked to population declines even in widespread and relatively common species. Cities comprise a complex assortment of habi... Read More about Differential responses of cryptic bat species to the urban landscape.

Understanding the risk to European protected species (bats) at onshore wind turbine sites to inform risk management (2016)
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The aim of this project is to determine the risks to bat populations from wind turbines in Great Britain. The project has investigated bat mortality and activity at a range of wind turbine installations across Great Britain and the results will be us... Read More about Understanding the risk to European protected species (bats) at onshore wind turbine sites to inform risk management.

Opportunities for improving the foraging potential of urban waterways for bats (2015)
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© 2015 Elsevier B.V.. The rapid rate of urbanisation over the past century has occurred over a relatively small proportion of the earth's surface, yet it has had considerable ecological impact at a global scale. Urban waterways have historically been... Read More about Opportunities for improving the foraging potential of urban waterways for bats.

Differential responses to woodland character and landscape context by cryptic bats in urban environments (2015)
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© 2015 Lintott et al. Urbanisation is one of the most dramatic forms of land use change which relatively few species can adapt to. Determining how and why species respond differently to urban habitats is important in predicting future biodiversity lo... Read More about Differential responses to woodland character and landscape context by cryptic bats in urban environments.

City life makes females fussy: Sex differences in habitat use of temperate bats in urban areas (2014)
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© 2014 The Authors. Urbanization is a major driver of the global loss of biodiversity; to mitigate its adverse effects, it is essential to understand what drives species' patterns of habitat use within the urban matrix. While many animal species are... Read More about City life makes females fussy: Sex differences in habitat use of temperate bats in urban areas.

Testing the effectiveness of surveying techniques in determining bat community composition within woodland (2014)
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Context Determining the biodiversity of an area is essential for making targeted conservation decisions. Undertaking surveys to confirm species presence or to estimate population sizes can be difficult, particularly for elusive species. Bats are able... Read More about Testing the effectiveness of surveying techniques in determining bat community composition within woodland.