{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Hermans C"],"funding":["Dutch Research Council (NWO)","Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Toegepaste en Technische wetenschappen (NWO-TTW)"],"pagination":["25"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC10131301"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["11(1)"],"pubmed_abstract":["<h4>Background</h4>Habitat structure strongly influences niche differentiation, facilitates predator avoidance, and drives species-specific foraging strategies of bats. Vegetation structure is also a strong driver of echolocation call characteristics. The fine-scale assessment of how bats utilise such structures in their natural habitat is instrumental in understanding how habitat composition shapes flight- and acoustic behaviour. However, it is notoriously difficult to study their species-habitat relationship in situ.<h4>Methods</h4>Here, we describe a methodology combining Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) to characterise three-dimensional vegetation structure and acoustic tracking to map bat behaviour. This makes it possible to study fine-scale use of habitat by bats, which is essenti"],"journal":["Movement ecology"],"pubmed_title":["Combining acoustic tracking and LiDAR to study bat flight behaviour in three-dimensional space."],"pmcid":["PMC10131301"],"funding_grant_id":["17077"],"pubmed_authors":["Bartholomeus H","Koblitz JC","Spoelstra K","Hermans C","Stilz P","Visser ME"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Combining acoustic tracking and LiDAR to study bat flight behaviour in three-dimensional space.","description":"<h4>Background</h4>Habitat structure strongly influences niche differentiation, facilitates predator avoidance, and drives species-specific foraging strategies of bats. Vegetation structure is also a strong driver of echolocation call characteristics. The fine-scale assessment of how bats utilise such structures in their natural habitat is instrumental in understanding how habitat composition shapes flight- and acoustic behaviour. However, it is notoriously difficult to study their species-habitat relationship in situ.<h4>Methods</h4>Here, we describe a methodology combining Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) to characterise three-dimensional vegetation structure and acoustic tracking to map bat behaviour. This makes it possible to study fine-scale use of habitat by bats, which is essenti","dates":{"release":"2023-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2023 Apr","modification":"2025-04-22T13:05:33.499Z","creation":"2025-04-06T00:33:20.819Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC10131301","cross_references":{"pubmed":["37101233"],"doi":["10.1186/s40462-023-00387-0"]}}