Bats of Penang Island, Malaysia

Nur Izzati Abdullah1, Lee Sim Lim2, Nurul-Ain Elias3, Joe Chun Chia Huang4, Joe Chun-Chia Huang5, Tigga Kingston6, Gábor Csorba7

1 School of Distance Education, Universiti Sains Malaysia, ; 2 School of Distance Education, Universiti Sains Malaysia, , Malaysia; 3 School of Biological Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, ; 4 School of Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, ; 5 School of Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, ; 6 Southeast Asian Bat Conservation and Research Unit, ; 7 Hungarian Natural History Museum, 

Corresponding author(s): Nur Izzati Abdullah (nurizzatiabdullah15@gmail.com)Lee Sim Lim (leesim.lim@usm.my)Nurul-Ain Elias (nurulain.elias@usm.my), Joe Chun Chia Huang (ecojoe.huang@gmail.com)

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Resource Citation

Abdullah N I, Lim L S, Elias N (2020): Bats of Penang Island, Malaysia. v1.3. Southeast Asian Bat Conservation Research Unit. Dataset/Occurrence. https://cloud.gbif.org/bifa/resource?r=bifa04-24-05&v=1.3

Abstract

Bat fauna on Penang Island, Malaysia

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation

Project details

Project title: Implementation of acoustics to fill the gaps of bat biodiversity information for Southeast Asia
Personnel: Joe Chun Chia Huang
Funding: GBIF-BIFA
Study area descriptions/descriptor: This data set is one of data assembled through the BIFA04_24 Project, which covered primarily SE Asia and nearby countries, e.g. Taiwan. This particular data is focused on the Penang Island in Malaysia

Data published through GBIF: https://cloud.gbif.org/bifa/resource?r=bifa04-24-05

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: All bats were identified to species. 15 species belonging to 8 genera of 5 families of bats (Mammalia: order Chiroptera) are reported.

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Penang Island, Penang State, Malaysia
Coordinates: 5°18'32.4''N and 5°27'46.8''N Latitude; 100°12'32.4''E and 100°20'27.6''E Longitude 

Formation period: 2014-2016

Methods

Method step description: Species data were either extracted from sound files recorded from captured animals or/and capture records in the field note.
Study extent description: This data set is one of data assembled through the BIFA04-24 Project, which covered primarily SE Asia and nearby countries, e.g. Taiwan. This particular data is focused on the Penang Island in Malaysia
Sampling description: Bats were captured, identified, and, then, released after reference calls were taken using a digital audio recorder.
Quality control description: The data were first assembled in a standard form designed for the Asian Bat Call Database (ABCD).The contributor(s) has been trained via a workshop fund by a GBIF-BIFA grant to use controlled language for data entry. The contents and format have been reviewed by the BIFA04-24 project investigator, Dr. Joe Chun-Chia Huang, and the ABCD manager, Dr. Tamas Golfol, under the supervision of Dr. Gabor Csorba from Hungarian Natural History Museum and Dr. Tigga Kingston from Southeast Asian Bat Conservation and Research Unit. The taxonomy of the species records has been carefully reviewed by Dr. Gabor Csorba which is very experienced of bat taxonomy in Asia. After all reviews and data cleaning, the data is migrated and reformatted using Darwin Core with support from the help desk (Miss Melissa Liu) of Taibif.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Bats of Penang Island, Malaysia
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://cloud.gbif.org/bifa/archive.do?r=bifa04-24-05
Publication date of data: 2020-06-25
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2020-03-25
Hierarchy level: Dataset

References
Nur-Izzati, A. (2018). Echolocation and community structure of bats from different landscapes on Penang Island. (Master's thesis), Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia.
Huang, J.C.C., Nur, I.A., Nurul-Ain, E., Shahrul, A.M.S., & Lim, L.S. (2019). The first record of Coelops frithii (Blyth, 1848) to Penang, Malaysia, with a note of the potential acoustic plasticity of the species. Journal of Bat Research & Conservation, 12. doi:10.14709/BarbJ.12.1.2019.03