calls: Bat Echolocation Calls

Description Usage Format Source

Description

Bat echolocation calls were recorded across north and central Mexico from June to November 2012 and from February to May 2013. Live trapped bats were measured and identified to species level using field keys and recorded in flight. Echolocation calls were recorded with a Pettersson 1000x bat detector (Pettersson Elektronik AB, Uppsala, Sweden) set to record calls manually in realtime, full spectrum at 500 kHz. Each recording consisted of multiple calls from a single individual bat. As many individual calls as possible up to a maximum of 100 calls per species are included. In total the dataset consists of 22 species from five families, 449 individual bats and 1816 individual echolocation call recordings. See source material for species level details.

Usage

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Format

Datafame of 449 observations of 36 variables:

species

Key given by the first two letters of the genus and species for each bat

sex

Male/Female indicator

chirp1, chirp2 , ... , chirp34

Individual echolocation chirp/call recordings for each bat

Source

V. Stathopoulos, V. Zamora-Gutierrez, K. E. Jones, and M. Girolami, Bat echolocation call identifcation for biodiversity monitoring: a probabilistic approach, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics) (2017). http://www.engage-project.org/publications/


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