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Publications

  • Ahlén, I. & Baagöe, H.J. 1999. Use of ultrasound detectors for bat studies in Europe - experiences from field identifications, surveys and monitoring. Acta Chiropterologica, 1(2): 137-150.
  • Ahmim, M., Dalhoumi, R. & Măntoiu, D.S. 2020. First data on the acoustic characteristics of some Chiropteran species from northern Algeria. Bioacoustics, 29(5): 499-517. 10.1080/09524622.2019.1620634
  • Aide, T.M., Corrada-Bravo, C., Campos-Cerqueira, M., Milan, C., Vega, G. & Alvarez, R. 2013. Real-time bioacoustics monitoring and automated species identification. PeerJ, 1, e103. 10.7717/peerj.103
  • Aodha, O.M., Gibb, R., Barlow, K.E., Browning, E., Firman, M., Freeman, R., Harder, B., Kinsey, L., Mead, G.R., Newson, S.E., Pandourski, I., Parsons, S., Russ, J., Szodoray-Paradi, A., Szodoray-Paradi, F., Tilova, E., Girolami, M., Brostow, G. & Jones, K.E. 2018. Bat detective - Deep learning tools for bat acoustic signal detection. PLOS Computational Biology, 14, e1005995. 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005995
  • Barataud, M. 2015. Acoustic Ecology of European Bats. Species Identificatoin, Study of their Habitats and Foraging Behaviour. Biotope, Méze; Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris (Inventaires et biodiversité series), 352 pp.
  • Brigham, R. M., Kalko, E. K. V., Jones, G.Parsons, S. & Limpens, H. J. G. A. (eds.) 2004. Bat Echolocation Research: tools, techniques and analysis. Bat Conservation International. Austin, Texas, 171 pp.
  • Britzke, E.R., Duchamp, J.E., Murray, K.L., Swihart, R.K. & Robbins, L.W. 2011. Acoustic identification of bats in the eastern United States: A comparison of parametric and nonparametric methods. The Journal of Wildlife Management, 75(3): 660-667. 10.1002/jwmg.68
  • Chen, S.-F., Jones, G. & Rossiter, S.J. 2009. Determinants of echolocation call frequency variation in the Formosan lesser horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus monoceros). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 276(1674): 3901–3909. 10.1098/rspb.2009.1185
  • Clement, M.J., Murray, K.L., Solick, D.I. & Gruver, J.C. 2014. The effect of call libraries and acoustic filters on the identification of bat echolocation. Ecology and Evolution, 4 (17): 3482-3493. 10.1002/ece3.1201
  • Collen, A.L. 2012. The evolution of echolocation in bats: a comparative approach. Doctoral thesis , UCL (University College London)
  • Deshpande, K. & Kelkar, N. 2015. Acoustic Identification of Otomops wroughtoni and other Free-Tailed Bat Species (Chiroptera: Molossidae) from India. Acta Chiropterologica, 17(2): 419-428. 10.3161/15081109ACC2015.17.2.018
  • Dietz, C. & Kiefer, A. (eds.) 2016. Bats of Britain and Europe. – Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 400 pp.
  • Fenton, M.B. 1999. Describing the echolocation calls and behaviour of bats. Acta Chiropterologica, 1(2): 127-136.
  • Fenton, M.B. & Bell, G.P. 1981. Recognition of Species of Insectivorous Bats by Their Echolocation Calls. Journal of Mammalogy, 62(2): 233-243. 10.2307/1380701
  • Francis, C.M. & Habersetzer, J. 1998. Inter- and intraspecific variation in echolocation call frequency and morphology of horseshoe bats, Rhinolophus and Hipposideros. pp.169-179. In: Kunz, T.H., Racey, P.A. (eds.), Bat biology and conservation. Smithsonian Institution Press, 384 pp.
  • Fukui, D., Agetsuma, N. & Hill, D.A. 2004. Acoustic Identification of Eight Species of Bat (Mammalia: Chiroptera) Inhabiting Forests of Southern Hokkaido, Japan: Potential for Conservation Monitoring. Zoological Science, 21(9): 947–955. 10.2108/zsj.21.947
  • Gannon, W. L., O’Farrell, M. J., Corben, C. & Bedrick, E. J. 2004. Call Character Lexicon and Analysis of Field Recorded Bat Echolocation Calls. Pp. 478-486. In: Thomas, J.A., Moss, C.F. & Vater, M. (eds.), Echolocation in Bats and Dolphins. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, USA, 604 pp.
  • Guillén, A., Juste, B.J. & Ibánez, C. 2001. Variation in the frequency of the echolocation calls of Hipposideros ruber in the Gulf of Guinea: an exploration of the adaptive meaning of the constant frequency value in rhinolophoid CF bats. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 13(1): 70-80. 10.1046/j.1420-9101.2000.00155.x
  • Hackett, T.D., Holderied, M.W. & Korine, C. 2017. Echolocation call description of 15 species of Middle-Eastern desert dwelling insectivorous bats. Bioacoustics, 26(3): 217-235. 10.1080/09524622.2016.1247386
  • Hughes, A.C., Satasook, C., Bates, P.J.J., Soisook, P., Sritongchuay, T., Jones, G. & Bumrungsri, S. 2011. Using Echolocation Calls to Identify Thai Bat Species: Vespertilionidae, Emballonuridae, Nycteridae and Megadermatidae. Acta Chiropterologica, 13(2): 447–455. 10.3161/150811011X624938
  • Jennings, N., Parsons, S. & Pocock, M.J.O. 2008. Human vs. machine: identification of bat species from their echolocation calls by humans and by artificial neural networks. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 86(5): 371-377. 10.1139/Z08-009
  • Jiang, T., Liu, R., Metzner, W., You, Y., Li, S., Liu, S. & Feng, J. 2010. Geographical and individual variation in echolocation calls of the intermediate leaf-nosed bat, Hipposideros larvatus. Ethology, 116(8): 691-703. 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2010.01785.x
  • Jones, G., Vaughan, N. & Parsons, S. 2000. Acoustic identification of bats from directly sampled and time expanded recordings of vocalizations. Acta Chiropterologica, 2(2): 155-170.
  • MacDonald, K., Matsui, E., Stevens, R. & Fenton, M.B. 1994. Echolocation Calls and Field Identification of the Eastern Pipistrelle (Pipistrellus subflavus: Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae), Using Ultrasonic Bat Detectors. Journal of Mammalogy, 75(2): 462-465. 10.2307/1382568
  • Mifsud, C.M. & Vella, A. 2019. Acoustic characterization of bats from Malta: setting a baseline for monitoring and conservation of bat populations. Bioacoustics, 28(5): 427-442. 10.1080/09524622.2018.1474138
  • Monadjem, A., Shapiro, J.T., Mtsetfwa, F., Reside, A.E. & McCleery, R.A. 2017. Acoustic Call Library and Detection Distances for Bats of Swaziland. Acta Chiropterologica, 19(1): 175-187. 10.3161/15081109ACC2017.19.1.014
  • Obrist, M.K., Boesch, R. & Flückiger, P.F. 2004. Variability in echolocation call design of 26 Swiss bat species: consequences, limits and options for automated field identification with a synergetic pattern recognition approach. Mammalia, 68(4): 307-322. 10.1515/mamm.2004.030
  • Papadatou, E., Butlin, R.K. & Altringham, J.D. 2008. Identification of bat species in Greece from their echolocation calls. Acta Chiropterologica, 10(1): 127-143. 10.3161/150811008X331153
  • Parsons, S. 1998. The effect of recording situation on the echolocation calls of the New Zealand lesser short‐tailed bat (Mystacina tuberculata Gray). New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 25(2): 147-156. 10.1080/03014223.1998.9518145
  • Parsons, S. & Jones, G. 2000. Acoustic identification of twelve species of echolocating bat by discriminant function analysis and artificial neural networks. Journal of Experimental Biology, 203(17): 2641-2656.
  • Pfalzer, G. & Kusch, J. 2003. Structure and variability of bat social calls: implications for specificity and individual recognition. Journal of Zoology, 261(1): 21-33. 10.1017/S0952836903003935
  • Pham, L.K., Tran, B.V., Le, Q.T., Nguyen, T.T. & Voigt, C.C. 2021. Description of Echolocation Call Parameters for Urban Bats in Vietnam as a Step Towards a More Integrated Acoustic Monitoring of Urban Wildlife in Southeast Asia. Diversity, 13(1): 18. https://doi.org/10.3390/d13010018
  • Phauk, S., Sarith, P. & Furey, N. 2013. Cambodian bat echolocation: a first description of assemblage call parameters and assessment of their utility for species identification. Cambodian Journal of Natural History, 2003(1): 16-26.
  • Russo, D. & Jones, G. 2002. Identification of twenty-two bat species (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from Italy by analysis of time-expanded recordings of echolocation calls. Journal of Zoology, 258(1): 91-103. 10.1017/S0952836902001231
  • Russo, D. & Papadatou, E. 2014. Acoustic identification of free-flying Schreiber’s bat Miniopterus schreibersii by social calls. Hystrix, 25(2): 119-120. 10.4404/hystrix-25.2-10933
  • Russo, D. & Voigt, C.C. 2016. The use of automated identification of bat echolocation calls in acoustic monitoring: A cautionary note for a sound analysis. Ecological Indicators 66: 598-602. 10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.02.036
  • Rydell, J., Arita, H.T., Santos, M. & Granados, J. 2002. Acoustic identification of insectivorous bats (order Chiroptera) of Yucatan, Mexico. Journal of Zoology, 257(1): 27-36. 10.1017/S0952836902000626
  • Stathopoulos, V., Zamora-Gutierrez, V., Jones, K.E. & Girolami, M. 2018. Bat echolocation call identification for biodiversity monitoring: a probabilistic approach. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society C, 67(1): 165-183. 10.1111/rssc.12217
  • Sun, K., Feng, J., Jin, L., Liu, Y. & Jiang, Y. 2008. Identification of sympatric bat species by the echolocation calls. Frontiers of Biology in China, 3(2): 227-231. 10.1007/s11515-008-0017-y
  • Taylor, P.J. 1999. Echolocation calls of twenty southern African bat species. South African Journal of Zoology, 34(3): 114-124. 10.1080/02541858.1999.11448496
  • Walters, C.L., Collen, A., Lucas, T., Mroz, K., Sayer, C.A. & Jones, K.E. 2013. Challenges of Using Bioacoustics to Globally Monitor Bats. In: Adams, R.A. & Pedersen, S.C. (eds.), Bat Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation. Springer New York, New York, NY, pp. 479–499. 10.1007/978-1-4614-7397-8_23
  • Walters, C.L., Freeman, R., Collen, A., Dietz, C., Brock Fenton, M., Jones, G., Obrist, M.K., Puechmaille, S.J., Sattler, T., Siemers, B.M., Parsons, S. & Jones, K.E. 2012. A continental-scale tool for acoustic identification of European bats. Journal of Applied Ecology, 49(5): 1064-1074. 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2012.02182.x
  • Wordley, C.F.R., Foui, E.K., Mudappa, D., Sankaran, M. & Altringham, J.D. 2014. Acoustic Identification of Bats in the Southern Western Ghats, India. Acta Chiropterologica, 16(1): 213–222. doi.org/10.3161/150811014X683408
  • Wu, H., Jiang, T., Liu, S., Lu, G. & Feng, J. 2020. Acoustic identification of two morphologically similar bat species, Miniopterus magnater and Miniopterus fuliginosus (Chiroptera, Miniopteridae). Mammalia, 84(2): 201-206. 10.1515/mammalia-2018-0197
  • Zamora-Gutierrez, V., Lopez‐Gonzalez, C., MacSwiney Gonzalez, M.C., Fenton, B., Jones, G., Kalko, E.K.V., Puechmaille, S.J., Stathopoulos, V. & Jones, K.E. 2016. Acoustic identification of Mexican bats based on taxonomic and ecological constraints on call design. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 7(9): 1082-1091. 10.1111/2041-210X.12556

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Here we would like to collect publications about ChiroVox or recordings available through this website. This includes old publications where ChiroVox UID was not mentioned. Please send us your articles or other material where ChiroVox was mentioned!

  • Hasan M. A. U, Kingston T. 2022. Bats of Bangladesh - A Systematic Review of the Diversity and Distribution with Recommendations for Future Research. Diversity, 14(12): 1042. DOI: 10.3390/d14121042
  • Tanshi I., Obitte B. C., Monadjem A., Rossiter S. J., Fisher-Phelps M., Kingston T. 2022. Multiple dimensions of biodiversity in paleotropical hotspots reveal comparable bat diversity. Biotropica DOI: 10.1111/btp.13143
  • Flanders J., Frick W. F., Nziza J., Nsengimana O., Kaleme P., Dusabe M. C., Ndikubwimana I., Twizeyimana I., Kibiwot S., Ntihemuka P., Cheng T. L., Muvunyi R., Webala P. 2022. Rediscovery of the critically endangered Hill's horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus hilli) and other new records of bat species in Rwanda. Biodiversity Data Journal, 10: e83546. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.10.e83546
  • Yoh N., Kingston T., McArthur E., Aylene O. E., Huang J. C.-C., Jinggong E. R., Khan F. A. A., Benjamin P. Y. H., Mitchell S. L., Bicknell J. E., Struebig M. J. 2022. A machine learning framework to classify Southeast Asian echolocating bats. Ecological Indicators, 136: 108696. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2022.108696
  • Görföl T., Huang J. C.-C., Csorba G., Győrössy D., Estók P., Kingston T., Szabadi K. L., McArthur E., Senawi J., Furey N. M., Tu V. T., Thong V. D., Khan F. A. A., Jinggong E. R., Donnelly M., Kumaran J. V., Liu J.-N., Chen S.-F., Tuanmu M.-N., Ho Y. Y., Chang H.-C., Elias N. A., Abdullah N. I., Lim L.-S., Squire D. C. & Zsebők S. 2022. ChiroVox: A public library of bat calls. PeerJ 10: e12445. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.12445
  • McArthur E. & Khan F. A. A. 2021. Towards a regional call library: Classifying calls of a species-rich bat assemblage in a Bornean karst rainforest. Journal of Bat Research & Conservation, 14(1): 95-117. DOI: 10.14709/BarbJ.14.1.2021.11
  • Görföl T., Kruskop S. V., Tu V. T., Estók P., Son N. T. & Csorba G. 2020. A new genus of vespertilionid bat: the end of a long journey for Joffre’s Pipistrelle (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Journal of Mammalogy, 101(2): 331-348. DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyz202
  • Kao M.-T., Liu J.-N., Cheng H.-C. & Nakazawa T. 2020. Social signatures in echolocation calls of a leaf-roosting bat, Kerivoula furva. Bioacoustics, 29(4): 461-480. DOI: 10.1080/09524622.2019.1616617
  • Huang J. C. C., Nur I. A., Nurul-Ain E., Shahrul A. M. S. & Lim L. S. 2019. The first record of Coelops frithii (Blyth, 1848) to Penang, Malaysia, with a note of the potential acoustic plasticity of the species. Journal of Bat Research & Conservation, 12(1): 21-26. DOI: 10.14709/Barbs.12.1.2019.03
  • McArthur E. 2019. Acoustic Survey on Habitat Use and Activity Patterns of Insectivorous Bats in a Riverine Forest, at Gunung Mulu National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia. Msc Thesis. Faculty of Resource Science and Technology, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak.
  • Nur-Izzati A. 2018. Echolocation and community structure of bats from different landscapes on Penang Island. (Master's thesis), Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia.
  • Shazali N., Rahman S. P. H., Tahir N. F. D. A., Murni R., Latip N. A., Naharuddin N. M., Azhar I., McArthur E., Khalik M. Z., Rahman M.-R. A., Khan F. A. A. & Tingga R. C. T. 2016. Small mammals from Miri, northeastern region of Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo: note on new locality records. Check List, 12(2): 1-10. DOI: 10.15560/12.2.1863
  • Soisook P., Karapan S., Srikrachang M., Dejtaradol A., Nualcharoen K., Bumrungsri S., Oo S. S. L., Aung M. M., Bates P. J. J., Harutyunyan M., Buś M. M. & Bogdanowicz W. 2016. Hill forest dweller: A new cryptic species of Rhinolophus in the ‘pusillus group’ (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae) from Thailand and Lao PDR. Acta Chiropterologica, 18(1): 117-139. DOI: 10.3161/15081109ACC2016.18.1.005
  • Huang J. C. C., Jazdzyk E. L., Nusalawo M., Maryanto I., Wiantoro S. & Kingston T. 2014. A recent bat survey reveals Bukit Barisan Selatan Landscape as a chiropteran diversity hotspot in Sumatra. Acta Chiropterologica, 16(2): 413-449. DOI: 10.3161/150811014X687369
  • Kuo H. C., Chen S. F., Fang Y. P., Flanders J. & Rossiter S. J. 2014. Comparative rangewide phylogeography of four endemic Taiwanese bat species. Molecular Ecology, 23(14): 3566-3586. DOI: 10.1111/mec.12838
  • Phauk S., Phen S. & Furey N. M. 2013. Cambodian bat echolocation: A first description of assemblage call parameters and assessment of their utility for species identification. Cambodian Journal of Natural History 2013(1): 16-26.
  • Furey N. M., Mackie I. J. & Racey P.A. 2009. The role of ultrasonic bat detectors in improving inventory and monitoring surveys in Vietnamese karst bat assemblages. Current Zoology 55(5): 327-341. DOI: 10.1093/czoolo/55.5.327