干旱区生态环境知识资源中心(Arid): Audible bats provide opportunities for citizen scientists

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DOI	10.1111/csp2.435
	Audible bats provide opportunities for citizen scientists
	Rodhouse, Thomas J.; Rose, Sara; Hawkins, Trent; Rodriguez, Rogelio M.
通讯作者	Rodhouse, TJ (corresponding author), Oregon State Univ Cascades, Natl Pk Serv, HERS Lab, 1500 SW Chandler Ave, Bend, OR 97702 USA.
来源期刊	CONSERVATION SCIENCE AND PRACTICE
EISSN	2578-4854
出版年	2021
卷号	3 期号:7
英文摘要	Bat conservation has been impeded by a lack of basic information about species' distributions and abundances. Public participation in closing this gap via citizen (community) science has been limited, but bat species that produce low-frequency calls audible to the unaided human ear provide an overlooked opportunity for collaborative citizen science surveys. Audible bats are rare in regional faunas but occur globally and can be under-surveyed by traditional methods. During 2019-2020, we were joined by community members to conduct aural surveys and expand our knowledge of rare audible desert bats in western North America through a structured survey design broadly adaptable for practitioners across the globe where audible bats occur. Our study was integrated into a statistically robust but flexible master sample in use by the North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat), ensuring representativeness of data contributions. We used survey results to update a Bayesian species distribution model for the rare spotted bat, Euderma maculatum, accounting for imperfect detection and including land cover occupancy predictors. Detection probability was estimated similar to 0.7 +/- 0.1. Informative priors from a previous attempt to model E. maculatum were leveraged with the new citizen science data to support spatial predictions of occurrence previously impeded by data sparsity and which reinforced the biogeographic importance of arid cliffs and canyons. Our results are preliminary but encouraging, and future surveys can scale up through the NABat design structure and Bayesian modeling framework. We encourage future surveys to use recording devices to obtain voucher calls and double-observer methods to address false-positive detection errors that arise with inexperienced volunteers. Our design and model supported approach to integrating citizen science surveys into bat conservation programs can strengthen both the scientific understanding of rare species and public engagement in conservation practices.
英文关键词	aural surveys Bayesian hierarchical model citizen science echolocation North American bat monitoring program (NABat) observation error occupancy model species distribution modeling
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	DOAJ Gold
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000646538500001
WOS关键词	EUDERMA-MACULATUM ; SPOTTED BAT ; ECHOLOCATION CALLS ; SPECIES OCCURRENCE ; SCIENCE ; BIODIVERSITY ; POPULATIONS ; CHIROPTERA ; PATTERNS ; MODELS
WOS类目	Biodiversity Conservation
WOS研究方向	Biodiversity & Conservation
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/349891
作者单位	[Rodhouse, Thomas J.] Oregon State Univ Cascades, Natl Pk Serv, Bend, OR USA; [Rodhouse, Thomas J.] Oregon State Univ Cascades, Human & Ecosyst Resiliency & Sustainabil Lab, Bend, OR USA; [Rose, Sara; Hawkins, Trent; Rodriguez, Rogelio M.] Oregon State Univ Cascades, Human & Ecosyst Resiliency & Sustainabil Lab, Northwestern Bat Hub, Bend, OR USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Rodhouse, Thomas J.,Rose, Sara,Hawkins, Trent,et al. Audible bats provide opportunities for citizen scientists[J],2021,3(7).
APA	Rodhouse, Thomas J.,Rose, Sara,Hawkins, Trent,&Rodriguez, Rogelio M..(2021).Audible bats provide opportunities for citizen scientists.CONSERVATION SCIENCE AND PRACTICE,3(7).
MLA	Rodhouse, Thomas J.,et al."Audible bats provide opportunities for citizen scientists".CONSERVATION SCIENCE AND PRACTICE 3.7(2021).