Artificial light at night (ALAN) is a pervasive form of pollution largely affecting wildlife, from
individual behaviour to community structure and dynamics. As nocturnal mammals, bats are …

Abstract Knowledge of species distribution and, for migratory species, seasonal occurrence
is particularly important for vulnerable and protected animals such as bats. The former …

Forest management rarely considers protecting bats in Fennoscandian regions although all
species rely on forest habitat at some point in their annual cycle. This issue is especially …

Ecological codes have been defined as every biological code integrated by factors
originated by the environmental context that participates in the codepoiesis process …

The Biodiversity and Bioindicators research group (BiBIO), based at the Natural Sciences
Museum of Granollers, has coordinated four long-term faunal monitoring programmes based …

Bat arousals during hibernation are related to rises in environmental temperature, body
water loss and increasing body heat. Therefore, bats either hibernate in cold places or …

This article reports an acoustic Luneburg lens (ALL) design with graded refractive index for
passive directivity detection of acoustic sources. The refractive index profile of the lens is …

Acoustic monitoring is an effective and scalable way to assess the health of important
bioindicators like bats in the wild. However, the large amounts of resulting noisy data …

Acoustic surveys of bat echolocation calls are an important management tool for determining
presence and probable absence of threatened and endangered bat species. In the …

Recent advances in low-cost autonomous recording unit (ARU) technology have made large-
scale bat monitoring projects more practical, but several key features of ARUs (eg …