Summary of 2015 Acoustic Bat Population Monitoring Data for Select Great Lakes Inventory and Monitoring Network Parks (WEST consulting)
WEST, Inc.. 2019. Summary of 2015 Acoustic Bat Population Monitoring Data for Select Great Lakes Inventory and Monitoring Network Parks (WEST consulting)
The GLKN has requested that Western EcoSystems Technology, Inc. (WEST) manually review, identify and summarize bat calls recorded within the Parks in 2015. This document is intended to meet the following objectives: 1) manually review and identify to species (when possible) all bat call recordings; 2) summarize acoustic recording metadata (number of survey nights, number of recordings, etc.); 3) summarize species presence and relative activity, and; 4) provide individual Park summaries. This is the second revision of the report. This revision was conducted to correct internal inconsistencies within the call identification dataset, correct misidentifications of tri-colored bat calls, include missing identifications, remove duplicate identifications and accurately reflect identifications of call files that contain multiple call sequences.