ChiroVox: a public library of bat calls

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Tamás Görföl¹  Joe Chun-Chia Huang³  Gábor Csorba¹  Dorottya Győrössy¹  Péter Estók⁷  Tigga Kingston⁵  Kriszta Lilla Szabadi¹  Ellen McArthur⁵  Juliana Senawi⁴  Neil M. Furey⁵  Vuong Tan Tu^1,12  Vu Dinh Thong⁵  Faisal Ali Anwarali Khan⁹  Emy Ritta Jinggong⁹  Melissa Donnelly^1,14  Jayaraj Vijaya Kumaran⁵  Jian-Nan Liu^1,17  Shiang-Fan Chen⁵  Mao-Ning Tuanmu³  Ying-Yi Ho³  Heng-Chia Chang^1,19  Nurul-Ain Elias⁵  Nur-Izzati Abdullah^2,20  Lee-Sim Lim⁵  C Daniel Squire⁵  Sándor Zsebők^2,23 

[1] Department of Zoology;National Laboratory of Virology, Szentágothai Research Centre, University of Pécs;Biodiversity Research Center;Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia;Southeast Asian Bat Conservation Research Unit;Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences;Department of Zoology, Eszterházy Károly Catholic University;Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University;Faculty of Resource Science and Technology, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak;Harrison Institute;Fauna & Flora International;Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology;Graduate University of Science and Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology;Operation Wallacea Ltd., Lincolnshire;Proyecto CUBABAT;Global Entrepreneurship Research & Innovation Center, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan;Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, National Chiayi University;Center for General Education, National Taipei University;Formosan Golden Bat’s Home;School of Biological Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia;School of Distance Education, Universiti Sains Malaysia;Department of Educational Psychology & Leadership, Texas Tech University;Department of Systematic Zoology and Ecology, Eötvös Loránd University;Institute of Ecology and Botany, Centre for Ecological Research

关键词: Bats;    Chiroptera;    Database;    Call library;    Echolocation;    Acoustics;    Survey;    Monitoring;   

DOI  :  10.7717/peerj.12445

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Inra

【 摘 要 】

Recordings of bat echolocation and social calls are used for many research purposes from ecological studies to taxonomy. Effective use of these relies on identification of species from the recordings, but comparative recordings or detailed call descriptions to support identification are often lacking for areas with high biodiversity. The ChiroVox website (https://www.chirovox.org) was created to facilitate the sharing of bat sound recordings together with their metadata, including biodiversity data and recording circumstances. To date, more than 30 researchers have contributed over 3,900 recordings of nearly 200 species, making ChiroVox the largest open-access bat call library currently available. Each recording has a unique identifier that can be cited in publications; hence the acoustic analyses are repeatable. Most of the recordings available through the website are from bats whose species identities are confirmed, so they can be used to determine species in recordings where the bats were not captured or could not be identified. We hope that with the help of the bat researcher community, the website will grow rapidly and will serve as a solid source for bat acoustic research and monitoring.

【 授权许可】

CC BY