Bats and solar farms

Have you ever thought about the ecological effects of the solar panels? Here are two studies published in which we used passive bioacoustics methods to assess the diversity of bats in solar farms and in their neighbourhood. Szabadi, K. L., Kurali, A., Rahman, N. A. A., Froidevaux, J. S. P., Tinsley, E., Jones, G., Görföl, …

ChiroVox: a public library of bat calls

NEW PAPER in PeerJ! 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 …

Help for the Ficedula Toolbox

I’m planning to regularly update the toolbox and provide information about the usage.   On Github, you can find the package: https://github.com/zsebok/Ficedula and the manual: https://github.com/zsebok/Ficedula/blob/master/manual_2018_08_24.pdf   In case of any trouble, don’t hesitate to write me on zsebok.s@gmail.com !    

Ficedula Toolbox is Published

“Ficedula”: an open-source MATLAB toolbox for cutting, segmenting and computer-aided clustering of bird song   Qualitative and quantitative assessments of bird song repertoires are important in studies related to song learning, sexual selection and cultural evolution. Despite methods for automatic analysis, it is still necessary to engage in manual cutting, segmenting and clustering of bird …