Andrews, C.; Dick, J.
Acoustic bat data, Cairngorms 2014
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Andrews, C.; Dick, J. (2015). Acoustic bat data, Cairngorms 2014. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/cee99bc4-15f7-42a0-bbbc-d3085ebfa486
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https://doi.org/10.5285/cee99bc4-15f7-42a0-bbbc-d3085ebfa486
This dataset provides nightly values for activity of two Pipistrelle bat species (Pipistrellus pipistrellus and Pipistrellus pygmaeus) with associated weather and weekly potential food resource data. Bat activity was recorded continually on three ultrasonic acoustic loggers for 185 days (31/04 to 01/11/2014) in an upland pine forest in the Cairngorms National Park, Scotland.
Publication date: 2015-09-25
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Format
Comma-separated values (CSV)
Spatial information
Study area
Spatial representation type
Tabular (text)
Spatial reference system
WGS 84
Temporal information
Temporal extent
2014-04-30 to 2014-11-01
Provenance & quality
Cross-checking accuracy of auto-identification software was crucial, and prior to use a 1000 records were cross-checked, and no mis-identifications of target species found. For continuity Pipistrelle bats left unresolved were assigned to species using 50KHz as the species delimiter. Wind direction cardinals was calculated from degrees using the following equation in Microsoft excel (=CHOOSE(INT(MOD(((WindDir*100) +1125),36000)/4500)+1,"N", "NE", "E", "SE", "S", "SW", "W", "NW"), whilst cloud base categories were established using the following equation (=IF(CloudBase<350,"Fog",IF(CloudBase >650,"High","Low")). Bat activity data was expressed as passes per hour, and was calculated by the total number of passes/hours in night.
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This dataset is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence
Cite this dataset as:
Andrews, C.; Dick, J. (2015). Acoustic bat data, Cairngorms 2014. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/cee99bc4-15f7-42a0-bbbc-d3085ebfa486
© UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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Andrews, C.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Bush Estate
EH26 0QB Penicuik
Midlothian
UNITED KINGDOM
enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
EH26 0QB Penicuik
Midlothian
UNITED KINGDOM
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NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
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21 March 2025 09:24