Andrews, C.; Dick, J.

Acoustic bat data, Cairngorms 2014

Name: Acoustic bat data, Cairngorms 2014
Published: 2015-09-25
License: https://eidc.ceh.ac.uk/licences/OGL/plain

https://doi.org/10.5285/cee99bc4-15f7-42a0-bbbc-d3085ebfa486 Cite this dataset

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

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.

Correspondence/contact details

Andrews, C.

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Bush Estate
EH26 0QB Penicuik
Midlothian
UNITED KINGDOM

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

Authors

Andrews, C.

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2428-272X

Dick, J.