Dr Mel Findlay's Outputs (2)

’Bots on the Ground vs Boots on the Ground: The Future of Robots in Terrestrial Ecological Surveying (2025)
Journal Article
White, P., Le Goff, L., Emery, L., Abrahams, C., Findlay, M., Cook, J., Macleod, K., Deacon, L., Reason, P., Stanhope, K., Wale, M., Hart, E., & Diele, K. (2025). ’Bots on the Ground vs Boots on the Ground: The Future of Robots in Terrestrial Ecological Surveying. In Practice (CIEEM), 27, 47-52

At the 2023 CIEEM Modernising Ecology conference, a robot greeted the attendees as they arrived. Was it a glimpse into the future? As with other technologies, robots have the potential to revolutionise ecological surveying, yet this comes with both o... Read More about ’Bots on the Ground vs Boots on the Ground: The Future of Robots in Terrestrial Ecological Surveying.

Relative Performance and Practicality of Night Vision Aids and Naked Eye Counts for Emerging Bats (2025)
Journal Article
Mitchell, L., Findlay, M., Ingledew, R., & White, P. (2025). Relative Performance and Practicality of Night Vision Aids and Naked Eye Counts for Emerging Bats. In Practice (CIEEM), 127, 41-46

The Bat Conservation Trust’s Good Practice Guidelines now require the use of night vision aids for bat emergence surveys. In light of this, we compared the efficacy and efficiency of three bat emergence roost count methods: naked eye counts, infrared... Read More about Relative Performance and Practicality of Night Vision Aids and Naked Eye Counts for Emerging Bats.