TY  - JOUR
AU  - López-Baucells, Adrià
AU  - Revilla-Martín, Natalia
AU  - Mas, Maria
AU  - Alonso-Alonso, Pedro
AU  - Budinski, Ivana
AU  - Fraixedas, Sara
AU  - Fernández-Llamazares, Álvaro
PY  - 2023
UR  - http://radar.ibiss.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/5767
AB  - The media is a valuable pathway for transforming people’s attitudes towards conservation issues. Understanding how bats are framed in the media is hence essential for bat conservation, particularly considering the recent fearmongering and misinformation about the risks posed by bats. We reviewed bat-related articles published online no later than 2019 (before the recent COVID19 pandemic), in 15 newspapers from the five most populated countries in Western Europe. We examined the extent to which bats were presented as a threat to human health and the assumed general attitudes towards bats that such articles supported. We quantified press coverage on bat conservation values and evaluated whether the country and political stance had any information bias. Finally, we assessed their terminology and, for the first time, modelled the active response from the readership based on the number of online comments. Out of 1095 articles sampled, 17% focused on bats and diseases, 53% on a range of ecological and conservation topics, and 30% only mention bats anecdotally. While most of the ecological articles did not present bats as a threat (97%), most articles focusing on diseases did so (80%). Ecosystem services were mentioned on very few occasions in both types (< 30%), and references to the economic benefits they provide were meagre (< 4%). Disease-related concepts were recurrent, and those articles that framed bats as a threat were the ones that garnered the highest number of comments. Therefore, we encourage the media to play a more proactive role in reinforcing positive conservation messaging by presenting the myriad ways in which bats contribute to safeguarding human well-being and ecosystem functioning.
PB  - Springer Nature
T2  - EcoHealth
T1  - Newspaper Coverage and Framing of Bats, and Their Impact on Readership Engagement
DO  - 10.1007/s10393-023-01634-x
ER  - 

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year = "2023",
abstract = "The media is a valuable pathway for transforming people’s attitudes towards conservation issues. Understanding how bats are framed in the media is hence essential for bat conservation, particularly considering the recent fearmongering and misinformation about the risks posed by bats. We reviewed bat-related articles published online no later than 2019 (before the recent COVID19 pandemic), in 15 newspapers from the five most populated countries in Western Europe. We examined the extent to which bats were presented as a threat to human health and the assumed general attitudes towards bats that such articles supported. We quantified press coverage on bat conservation values and evaluated whether the country and political stance had any information bias. Finally, we assessed their terminology and, for the first time, modelled the active response from the readership based on the number of online comments. Out of 1095 articles sampled, 17% focused on bats and diseases, 53% on a range of ecological and conservation topics, and 30% only mention bats anecdotally. While most of the ecological articles did not present bats as a threat (97%), most articles focusing on diseases did so (80%). Ecosystem services were mentioned on very few occasions in both types (< 30%), and references to the economic benefits they provide were meagre (< 4%). Disease-related concepts were recurrent, and those articles that framed bats as a threat were the ones that garnered the highest number of comments. Therefore, we encourage the media to play a more proactive role in reinforcing positive conservation messaging by presenting the myriad ways in which bats contribute to safeguarding human well-being and ecosystem functioning.",
publisher = "Springer Nature",
journal = "EcoHealth",
title = "Newspaper Coverage and Framing of Bats, and Their Impact on Readership Engagement",
doi = "10.1007/s10393-023-01634-x"
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López-Baucells, A., Revilla-Martín, N., Mas, M., Alonso-Alonso, P., Budinski, I., Fraixedas, S.,& Fernández-Llamazares, Á.. (2023). Newspaper Coverage and Framing of Bats, and Their Impact on Readership Engagement. in EcoHealth
Springer Nature..
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-023-01634-x

López-Baucells A, Revilla-Martín N, Mas M, Alonso-Alonso P, Budinski I, Fraixedas S, Fernández-Llamazares Á. Newspaper Coverage and Framing of Bats, and Their Impact on Readership Engagement. in EcoHealth. 2023;.
doi:10.1007/s10393-023-01634-x .

López-Baucells, Adrià, Revilla-Martín, Natalia, Mas, Maria, Alonso-Alonso, Pedro, Budinski, Ivana, Fraixedas, Sara, Fernández-Llamazares, Álvaro, "Newspaper Coverage and Framing of Bats, and Their Impact on Readership Engagement" in EcoHealth (2023),
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-023-01634-x . .

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Revilla-Martín, Natalia
AU  - Budinski, Ivana
AU  - Puig-Montserrat, Xavier
AU  - Flaquer, Carles
AU  - López-Baucells, Adrià
PY  - 2020
UR  - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09524622.2020.1816492
UR  - https://radar.ibiss.bg.ac.rs/123456789/3889
AB  - Monitoring programmes provide extremely helpful information to understand population dynamics and make effective management decisions, but they are usually constrained by methodological and economical limitations. Advances in bioacoustic technologies offer new opportunities for bat monitoring. In this study, we present a method to monitor small and medium-sized cave-dwelling bat colonies using low-cost AudioMoth passive acoustic recorders. We develop a method to convert bat passes, a measure of acoustic activity, to an estimated number of bats in the roost. To do so, we took audio-visual recordings of five Miniopterus schreibersii colonies emerging from their roosts over 25 nights. We compared the accuracy of the estimates when using site-specific acoustic data against a combined global dataset and examined the influence of the detector position on the estimates. Site-specific acoustic datasets recorded at the cave entrance showed to be adequate to estimate roost bat numbers. In addition, we acoustically monitored one cave during three months of continuous sampling to test our protocol and compared the resulting data with historical datasets of roost occupancy. This method provides a low-cost, non-invasive and simple approach to monitor seasonal and inter-year roost dynamics that can easily be implemented in long-term monitoring programmes and citizen science projects.
PB  - Taylor and Francis Ltd.
T2  - Bioacoustics
T1  - Monitoring cave-dwelling bats using remote passive acoustic detectors: a new approach for cave monitoring
DO  - 10.1080/09524622.2020.1816492
ER  - 

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year = "2020",
abstract = "Monitoring programmes provide extremely helpful information to understand population dynamics and make effective management decisions, but they are usually constrained by methodological and economical limitations. Advances in bioacoustic technologies offer new opportunities for bat monitoring. In this study, we present a method to monitor small and medium-sized cave-dwelling bat colonies using low-cost AudioMoth passive acoustic recorders. We develop a method to convert bat passes, a measure of acoustic activity, to an estimated number of bats in the roost. To do so, we took audio-visual recordings of five Miniopterus schreibersii colonies emerging from their roosts over 25 nights. We compared the accuracy of the estimates when using site-specific acoustic data against a combined global dataset and examined the influence of the detector position on the estimates. Site-specific acoustic datasets recorded at the cave entrance showed to be adequate to estimate roost bat numbers. In addition, we acoustically monitored one cave during three months of continuous sampling to test our protocol and compared the resulting data with historical datasets of roost occupancy. This method provides a low-cost, non-invasive and simple approach to monitor seasonal and inter-year roost dynamics that can easily be implemented in long-term monitoring programmes and citizen science projects.",
publisher = "Taylor and Francis Ltd.",
journal = "Bioacoustics",
title = "Monitoring cave-dwelling bats using remote passive acoustic detectors: a new approach for cave monitoring",
doi = "10.1080/09524622.2020.1816492"
}

Revilla-Martín, N., Budinski, I., Puig-Montserrat, X., Flaquer, C.,& López-Baucells, A.. (2020). Monitoring cave-dwelling bats using remote passive acoustic detectors: a new approach for cave monitoring. in Bioacoustics
Taylor and Francis Ltd...
https://doi.org/10.1080/09524622.2020.1816492

Revilla-Martín N, Budinski I, Puig-Montserrat X, Flaquer C, López-Baucells A. Monitoring cave-dwelling bats using remote passive acoustic detectors: a new approach for cave monitoring. in Bioacoustics. 2020;.
doi:10.1080/09524622.2020.1816492 .

Revilla-Martín, Natalia, Budinski, Ivana, Puig-Montserrat, Xavier, Flaquer, Carles, López-Baucells, Adrià, "Monitoring cave-dwelling bats using remote passive acoustic detectors: a new approach for cave monitoring" in Bioacoustics (2020),
https://doi.org/10.1080/09524622.2020.1816492 . .