Right place. Right time. Right tool: guidance for using target analysis to increase the likelihood of invasive species detection

JT Morisette, JK Reaser, GL Cook, KM Irvine… - Biological Invasions, 2020‏ - Springer
In response to the National Invasive Species Council's 2016–2018 Management Plan, this
paper provides guidance on applying target analysis as part of a comprehensive framework …

Citizen science reveals trends in bat populations: the National Bat Monitoring Programme in Great Britain

KE Barlow, PA Briggs, KA Haysom, AM Hutson… - Biological …, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Bats play an important role in ecosystems and are highly relevant as indicators of
environmental change. Long-term monitoring of bat populations is therefore fundamental to …

Evidence of region‐wide bat population decline from long‐term monitoring and Bayesian occupancy models with empirically informed priors

TJ Rodhouse, RM Rodriguez, KM Banner… - Ecology and …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Strategic conservation efforts for cryptic species, especially bats, are hindered by limited
understanding of distribution and population trends. Integrating long‐term encounter …

Current status of ecotoxicological studies of bats in Brazil

MB de Souza, LR de Souza Santos, RE Borges… - Bulletin of environmental …, 2020‏ - Springer
Bats are sensitive to contaminants generated by agricultural activities, mining, and
urbanization. In this review, we update the status of bat toxicology in Brazil. Agriculture, for …

Improved analysis of long-term monitoring data demonstrates marked regional declines of bat populations in the eastern United States

TE Ingersoll, BJ Sewall, SK Amelon - PLoS one, 2013‏ - journals.plos.org
Bats are diverse and ecologically important, but are also subject to a suite of severe threats.
Evidence for localized bat mortality from these threats is well-documented in some cases …

A novel citizen science approach for large-scale standardised monitoring of bat activity and distribution, evaluated in eastern England

SE Newson, HE Evans, S Gillings - Biological Conservation, 2015‏ - Elsevier
In many countries, bats have high conservation prioritisation owing to their trophic position,
habitat associations and threat level, and many have dedicated management plans …

Accounting for false‐positive acoustic detections of bats using occupancy models

MJ Clement, TJ Rodhouse, PC Ormsbee… - Journal of Applied …, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
Acoustic surveys have become a common survey method for bats and other vocal taxa.
Previous work shows that bat echolocation may be misidentified, but common analytic …

Challenges of using bioacoustics to globally monitor bats

CL Walters, A Collen, T Lucas, K Mroz… - Bat evolution, ecology …, 2013‏ - Springer
As bats are important biodiversity indicators, monitoring their populations is becoming
increasingly important to understand the impacts of global change. Bats leak information …

Improving geographically extensive acoustic survey designs for modeling species occurrence with imperfect detection and misidentification

KM Banner, KM Irvine, TJ Rodhouse… - Ecology and …, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Acoustic recording units (ARU s) enable geographically extensive surveys of sensitive and
elusive species. However, a hidden cost of using ARU data for modeling species occupancy …

Seasonally-dynamic presence-only species distribution models for a cryptic migratory bat impacted by wind energy development

MA Hayes, PM Cryan, MB Wunder - PLoS One, 2015‏ - journals.plos.org
Understanding seasonal distribution and movement patterns of animals that migrate long
distances is an essential part of monitoring and conserving their populations. Compared to …