ChiroVox: A public library of bat calls

Tamás Görföl; Joe Chun Chia Huang; Gábor Csorba; Dorottya Gyorössy; Péter Estók; Tigga Kingston; Kriszta Lilla Szabadi; Ellen McArthur; Juliana Senawi; Neil M. Furey; Vuong Tan Tu1; Vu Dinh Thong; Faisal Ali Anwarali Khan; Emy Ritta Jinggong; Melissa Donnelly; Jayaraj Vijaya Kumaran; Jian Nan Liu; Shiang Fan Chen; Mao Ning Tuanmu; Ying Yi Ho; Heng Chia Chang; Nurul Ain Elias; Nur Izzati Abdullah; Lee Sim Lim; C. Daniel Squire; Sándor Zsebok

doi:10.7717/peerj.12445

ChiroVox: A public library of bat calls

Tamás Görföl^*, Joe Chun Chia Huang, Gábor Csorba, Dorottya Gyorössy, Péter Estók, Tigga Kingston, Kriszta Lilla Szabadi, Ellen McArthur, Juliana Senawi, Neil M. Furey, Vuong Tan Tu1, Vu Dinh Thong, Faisal Ali Anwarali Khan, Emy Ritta Jinggong, Melissa Donnelly, Jayaraj Vijaya Kumaran, Jian Nan Liu, Shiang Fan Chen, Mao Ning Tuanmu, Ying Yi HoHeng Chia Chang, Nurul Ain Elias, Nur Izzati Abdullah, Lee Sim Lim, C. Daniel Squire, Sándor Zsebok

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Abstract

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 (www.chirovox.org) was created to facilitate the sharing of bat sound recordings together with their metadata, including biodiversity data and recording circumstances. To date, more than 30 researchers have contributed over 3,900 recordings of nearly 200 species, making ChiroVox the largest open-access bat call library currently available. Each recording has a unique identifier that can be cited in publications; hence the acoustic analyses are repeatable. Most of the recordings available through the website are from bats whose species identities are confirmed, so they can be used to determine species in recordings where the bats were not captured or could not be identified. We hope that with the help of the bat researcher community, the website will grow rapidly and will serve as a solid source for bat acoustic research and monitoring.

Original language	English
Article number	e12445
Journal	PeerJ
Volume	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12445
Publication status	Published - 2022 Jan
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Acoustics
Bats
Call library
Chiroptera
Database
Echolocation
Monitoring
Survey

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Neuroscience
General Biochemistry,Genetics and Molecular Biology
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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Görföl, T., Huang, J. C. C., Csorba, G., Gyorössy, D., Estók, P., Kingston, T., Szabadi, K. L., McArthur, E., Senawi, J., Furey, N. M., Tu1, V. T., Thong, V. D., Khan, F. A. A., Jinggong, E. R., Donnelly, M., Kumaran, J. V., Liu, J. N., Chen, S. F., Tuanmu, M. N., ... Zsebok, S. (2022). ChiroVox: A public library of bat calls. PeerJ, 10, Article e12445. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12445

Görföl, T, Huang, JCC, Csorba, G, Gyorössy, D, Estók, P, Kingston, T, Szabadi, KL, McArthur, E, Senawi, J, Furey, NM, Tu1, VT, Thong, VD, Khan, FAA, Jinggong, ER, Donnelly, M, Kumaran, JV, Liu, JN, Chen, SF, Tuanmu, MN, Ho, YY, Chang, HC, Elias, NA, Abdullah, NI, Lim, LS, Squire, CD & Zsebok, S 2022, 'ChiroVox: A public library of bat calls', PeerJ, vol. 10, e12445. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12445

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