1. Terrestrial Ultra-soundscape
Joe Chun-Chia Huang and Mao-Ning Tuanmu

2. Research goals and questions
Establish long-term monitoring on ultra- soundscape, mainly on echolocating bats
Example Research Question
How do climate and its variability affect the activity patterns of bat colonies emerging from caves and their ecosystem services?

3. Methods(1/2)
We target large cave roosts and surrounding landscapes as the model ecosystem in Vietnam and Malaysia(Borneo).
In Vietnam, a cave site in agriculture landscape will be selected. Detectors will be deployed at the cave entrance and 4 locations in agriculture lands.
In Malaysia, a cave site in forest landscape will be selected. Detectors will be deployed at the cave entrance and one forest location (integrate with terrestrial team?).

4. Methods(2/2)
Bat diversity and abundance will be estimated by direct observations at each roost monthly
A climate data logger will be set up with each detector

5. Expected outputs
Setting up 2 long-term ultrasound monitoring sites in Vietnam and Malaysia
Developing acoustic indices that can effectively reflect activity patterns and diversity of bat colonies
Establishing correlations between climatic conditions and bat activity patterns
Developing ultrasound analyzing tools,
Call identifier and classifier
Source separation tool (w/ Harry)
Acoustic diversity calculator (w/ Harry)

6. 1st year working plan (2017.5~8)
2017.5~6
Consult with local collaborators for site selection and permit application
Equipment purchase
2017.6~8
Training workshop of equipment set-up, data collection (coordinated with audible soundscape team)
Form research teams and recording equipment set-up

7. 2nd year working plan (2017.9~2018.12)
2017.9~12
Data collection and analyses and tool development
2018.1~8
Continue data collection and train machines/scripts
Finish ultrasound analyzer tools
Training workshop of soundscape analysis
2018.9~12
Implement the ultrasound analyzer tools to the online platform (depending on the IT schedule)
Examine the patterns of ultrasonic soundscape and its relationship with climates
Draft the project report

8. Workshop
1st year
Combine Borneo and peninsula groups into one workshop
Host with terrestrial soundscape team? Where?
2nd year
May join with SEA bat conference in the Philippine
or ATBC (Asian Tropical Biology and Conservation) annual international meeting in Kuchin, Sarawak, Malaysia
Or combined with the symposium?

9. Resources required
7 (+7)? SM4 FS bat detectors, replaced mic, and SD cards
7 Hobo data logger U23-001
Travels to Malaysia and Vietnam (4 trips for two years)
Conference attendance
One full-time assistantship? (for coding call classifiers and index calculator)

10. Resources required for fieldwork
1st year
Two part-time assistantships for totally 21 person- days in Vietnam & Malaysia (for 3 months)
Logistics for fieldwork in SE for 3 (6) person-trips in Vietnam & Malaysia
2nd year
Two part-time assistantships for 42 person-days in Vietnam & Malaysia (for 6 months)
Logistics for fieldwork for 6 (12) person-trips in Vietnam & Malaysia

11. Others
May need to cover travel cost for participants to workshop and conference (Thus, combined workshop could leave more space in the budget to support the participants)