About the Authors

Sébastien J. Puechmaille

Contributed equally to this work with: Sébastien J. Puechmaille, Gudrun Wibbelt

s.puechmaille@gmail.com

Affiliations School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, Dublin, Ireland

Gudrun Wibbelt

Contributed equally to this work with: Sébastien J. Puechmaille, Gudrun Wibbelt

Affiliation Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany

Vanessa Korn

Affiliation Office for Faunistic and Landscape Ecology, Schöneberg, Germany

Hubert Fuller

Affiliation School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Frédéric Forget

Affiliation Plecotus Working Group, Association Natagora, Brussels, Belgium

Kristin Mühldorfer

Affiliation Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany

Andreas Kurth

Affiliation Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Wieslaw Bogdanowicz

Affiliation Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland

Christophe Borel

Affiliation Commission de Protection des Eaux, du Patrimoine, de l'Environnement, du Sous-sol et des Chiroptères – Lorraine, Velaine-en-Haye, France

Thijs Bosch

Affiliation Dutch Bat Workers Group, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Thomas Cherezy

Affiliation Coordination Mammalogique du Nord de la France, Béthune, France

Mikhail Drebet

Affiliation Podilski Tovtry National Nature Park, Kamenets-Podilsky, Ukraine

Tamás Görföl

Affiliation Nature Conservation Foundation of Tolna County, Szekszárd, Hungary

Anne-Jifke Haarsma

Affiliation Centre for Ecosystem Studies, Alterra and Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Frank Herhaus

Affiliation Biology Station Oberberg, Nümbrecht, Germany

Guénael Hallart

Affiliation Société d'Etude et de Protection de la Nature en Thiérache, Le Chaudron, Origny-en-Thiérache, France

Matthias Hammer

Affiliation Department of Biology, Center for Bat Conservation in Northern Bavaria, Erlangen University, Erlangen, Germany

Christian Jungmann

Affiliation Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Rhineland-Palatine, Birkenfeld, Germany

Yann Le Bris

Affiliation Bretagne Vivante SEPNB, Roussimel, Glénac, France

Lauri Lutsar

Affiliation Estonian Fund for Nature, Tartu, Estonia

Matti Masing

Affiliation Sicista Development Centre, Tartu, Estonia

Bart Mulkens

Affiliation Bat Working Group, Natuurpunt VZW, Belgium

Karsten Passior

Affiliation Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Southern Lower-Saxony, Nordstemmen, Germany

Martin Starrach

Affiliation Biotope Mapping Cooperation, Herford, Germany

Andrzej Wojtaszewski

Affiliation Institute of Natural Fibres and Medicinal Plants, Poznan, Poland

Ulrich Zöphel

Affiliation Saxonian State Office for Environment Agriculture and Geology, Dresden-Pillnitz, Germany

Emma C. Teeling

Affiliations School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, Dublin, Ireland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SJP GW VK ECT. Performed the experiments: SJP GW HF VK KM AK. Analyzed the data: SJP GW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SJP GW VK HF KM AK FF WB CB TB TC MD TG AJH FH GH MH CJ YLB LL MM BM KP MS AW UZ ECT. Wrote the paper: SJP GW.