Australian Bat Acoustic Data Collection
A collection of high-frequency echolocation calls of Australian bats.<br><br>
It contains calls from previously available collections such as Pennay et al. (2004), Bat Calls of NSW and Milne (2002), Key to the bat calls of the top end of the Northern Territory, calls collected by members of the Australasian Bat Society during conferences and Bat Blitz's held in Tasmania, Queensland, Northern Territory and South Australia as well as those donated by individual bat researchers.<br><br>
The collection also includes long-term monitoring (funded by TERN) at a number of Queensland sites: Cape Hillsborough National Park, Kings Plains, Fanning River, Fletcherview Research Station, Carnarvon Station Reserve and Bunya Mountains / Dalby.<br><br>
This collection includes zc, wav, identified and unidentified calls, with call meta data such as location (GPS), call collector, call identifier (where relevant), how a call was identified etc noted in the metadata associated with each sound file.<br><br>
Perhaps most significantly, this collection includes over 100,000 calls recorded by Chris Corben, many of which are identified to species. We thank him for his incredible generosity and contribution to bat work internationally. The earliest calls date to 1989, prior to Titley's involvement, and probably involved Chris with his laptop and an ultrasonic microphone plugged into it!
Simple
Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 1989-10-15
- Date (Publication)
- 2024-11-24
- Date (Revision)
- 2024-11-25
- Edition
- 1
Publisher
Author
Author
- Website
- https://www.tern.org.au/
- Purpose
- The Australian Bat Acoustic Data Collection has two goals: to demonstrate the feasibility and value of long-term acoustic monitoring of echolocating bats, and to develop an open-access online repository of bat calls and analytical techniques that captures the within and between-species diversity in call structure across Australia, in order to improve our capacity to identify all species of Australian bats based on their echolocation calls.
- Credit
- We at TERN acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians throughout Australia, New Zealand and all nations. We honour their profound connections to land, water, biodiversity and culture and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.
- Credit
- <p><p>This work was jointly funded by the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), an Australian Government National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) project, New South Wales Government Department of Environment and Conservation, and Parks and Wildlife Commission of the Northern Territory.
- Status
- On going
Point of contact
Point of contact
- Topic category
-
- Biota
Extent
- Description
- Australia
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 1989-10-15
- Title
- Pennay, Michael & Law, Bradley & Reinhold, Linda & New South Wales. National Parks and Wildlife Service & State Forests of New South Wales & New South Wales. Department of Environment and Conservation. (2004). Bat calls of New South Wales : region based guide to the echolocation of microchiropteran bats / Michael Pennay, Brad Law & Linda Reinhold. Hurstville NSW : Dept. of Environment and Conservation
- Title
- Milne, Damian J & Parks and Wildlife Commission of the Northern Territory. (2002). Key to the bat calls of the top end of the Northern Territory / Damian J. Milne. [Palmerston, N. T.] : Parks and Wildlife Commission of the Northern Territory
- Website
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Milne, Damian J & Parks and Wildlife Commission of the Northern Territory. (2002). Key to the bat calls of the top end of the Northern Territory / Damian J. Milne. [Palmerston, N. T.] : Parks and Wildlife Commission of the Northern Territory
Related documentation
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- GCMD Science Keywords
- ANZSRC Fields of Research
- TERN Instrument Vocabulary
- TERN Parameter Vocabulary
- QUDT Units of Measure
- GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
- GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
- Australian Faunal Directory
- Keywords (Discipline)
-
- ultrasound
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- The Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license allows others to copy, distribute, display, and create derivative works provided that they credit the original source and any other nominated parties. Details are provided at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- File name
- 88x31.png
- File description
- CCBy Logo from creativecommons.org
- File type
- png
- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
- Alternate title
- CC-BY
- Edition
- 4.0
- Access constraints
- License
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- TERN services are provided on an "as-is" and "as available" basis. Users use any TERN services at their discretion and risk. They will be solely responsible for any damage or loss whatsoever that results from such use including use of any data obtained through TERN and any analysis performed using the TERN infrastructure. <br />Web links to and from external, third party websites should not be construed as implying any relationships with and/or endorsement of the external site or its content by TERN. <br /><br />Please advise any work or publications that use this data via the online form at https://www.tern.org.au/research-publications/#reporting
- Other constraints
- Please cite this dataset as {Author} ({PublicationYear}). {Title}. {Version, as appropriate}. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. Dataset. {Identifier}.
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
-
- wav, csv
Distributor
Distributor
- OnLine resource
- Bat Acoustic Data
- OnLine resource
- ro-crate-metadata.json
Data quality info
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Other
- Data Quality has been assessed by Simon Robson.
Resource lineage
- Statement
- Bat calls are recorded using ultrasonic recorders developed by Titley Scientific.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/EPSG:4326
- Reference system type
- Geodetic Geographic 2D
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
-
urn:uuid/9c47fe65-86c0-4cbd-bb28-73d30c3fd6c1
- Title
- TERN GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
-
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/9c47fe65-86c0-4cbd-bb28-73d30c3fd6c1
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2024-11-20T00:00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2024-11-25T00:00:00
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-1:2014/AMD 1:2018 Geographic information - Metadata - Fundamentals
- Edition
- 1
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO/TS 19115-3:2016
- Edition
- 1.0
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO/TS 19157-2:2016
- Edition
- 1.0
- Title
- Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-3:2016 and ISO 19157-2:2016
- Date (published)
- 2021
- Edition
- 1.0