Bat activity in riparian reserves in forest and oil palm plantations

Description:

Number of bat calls recorded by an Echometer-3 recorder during 10-minute point counts. Counts are classified within 5 acoustic call types, and several Rhinolophoid species where possible.

Project: This dataset was collected as part of the following SAFE research project: Investigating the importance of riparian reserves for insectivorous bat species in oil palm and forest estates in Sabah, Malaysia

Funding: These data were collected as part of research funded by:

• UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) (Human Modified Tropical Forests programme & a PhD scholarship jointly funded by University of Kent & NERC & EnvEast DTP scholarship, NE/K016407/1 & NE/L002582/1)

This dataset is released under the CC-BY 4.0 licence, requiring that you cite the dataset in any outputs, but has the additional condition that you acknowledge the contribution of these funders in any outputs.

Permits: These data were collected under permit from the following authorities:

• Sabah Biodiversity Council (Research licence JKM/MBS.1000-2/2(374))

XML metadata: GEMINI compliant metadata for this dataset is available here

Files: This consists of 1 file: SAFE_data_archive_Bat_Riparian_Acoustic_Struebig_Mullin_Yoh_final.xlsx

SAFE_data_archive_Bat_Riparian_Acoustic_Struebig_Mullin_Yoh_final.xlsx

This file contains dataset metadata and 1 data tables:

1. All data (described in worksheet MasterData)

   Description: All bat passes and their metadata inc frequencies & species identification for a subset of recordings when possible

   Number of fields: 19

   Number of data rows: 5696

   Fields:

   • Location: where data was collected (Field type: location)
   • Type: Habitat type (Field type: categorical)
   • Visit: Visit number (Field type: numeric)
   • Date: Date surveyed (Field type: date)
   • Sunset: Sun set time (Field type: time)
   • Time: Time data collected (Field type: time)
   • Mins_after_sunset: Minutes after sunset (Field type: numeric)
   • Call_type: Taxa (Field type: categorical)
   • Species_ID: Species ID (Field type: taxa)
   • Buzz: Presence of feeding buzz (Field type: numeric)
   • Av_High_freq_(kHz): Bat frequency (Field type: numeric)
   • Av_Low_freq_(kHz): Bat frequency (Field type: numeric)
   • Average_of_CallDuration_(ms): Bat frequency (Field type: numeric)
   • Rip_res_width: Riparian reserve width (Field type: numeric)
   • Canopy_gap: Canopy gap within 50m radius buffer (Field type: numeric)
   • Avg_CH_50mR: Average canopy height within 50m radius buffer (Field type: numeric)
   • Avg_Biomass_50mR: Average biomass within 50m radius buffer (Field type: numeric)
   • Prop_Fcover_1km: Proportion forest cover within 1km buffer (Field type: numeric)
   • Avg_Rug_50mR: Average ruggedness within 50m radius buffer (Field type: numeric)

Date range: 2014-04-28 to 2018-11-15

Latitudinal extent: 4.5000 to 5.0700

Longitudinal extent: 116.7500 to 117.8200

Taxonomic coverage:
All taxon names are validated against the GBIF backbone taxonomy. If a dataset uses a synonym, the accepted usage is shown followed by the dataset usage in brackets. Taxa that cannot be validated, including new species and other unknown taxa, morphospecies, functional groups and taxonomic levels not used in the GBIF backbone are shown in square brackets.