An accessible and comprehensive guide to all things acoustic bat detection.
This illustrated handbook provides an in-depth understanding of acoustic detection principles, study design, data management, characteristics of bat calls, manual identification of species, automatic species recognition, analysis of results, quality assurance, and background physics of sound. No other method of bat detection is as popular and widespread in environmental assessment and volunteer work as acoustic detection, and its increased use has driven the development of a large number of sophisticated devices and analytical methods. Acoustic detection has become a standard method for determining the presence of bats, performing species identification and monitoring activity levels. The resolution, accuracy and scale at which these tasks can be performed have increased dramatically with the availability of automated real-time recording. But anyone interested in acoustic recording will quickly realize that there are still a lot of open questions about the limits and possibilities of acoustic detection. Clear definitions of how the data should be handled are usually missing, for example, and there are no clearly described activity indices. In response to the lack of thorough information on the underlying science of acoustic detection, the authors present this handbook.
Product information
Authors: Volker Runkel, Guido Gerding & Ulrich Marckmann
Translator: Iain Macmillan
ISBN: 9781784272203
Language: English
Weight: 510 grams
Format: Paperback
Released: 2021-08-26
Publisher: Pelagic Publishing
Pages: 208