Acknowledgments

There are a number of people without who's help the project would never have happened, so I'd like to give a special thank you to the following:

• Donna and Graham Street at the IOW Bat Hospital for putting up with constant emails for help in identifying bats and getting them to look out for specific species...

• Paul and Mary Bradley of Crockers Farm for permission to survey their fields on the forest edge

• Graham and John Ward of Stagwell Farm for their permission to survey their fields on the forest edge

• Roger and Jill Broomfield of Broomfield Farm for their permission to survey their fields on the forest edge

• Colin Pope & Jon Flanders for their help in the early definition stages of the project

  • Nida Al Fulaij at the People's Trust for Endangered Species for access to Ian Davidson-Watts IW Woodland Bat Report

  • Stefan Ineichen and the all the team at Elekon AG for promptly fixing a number of bugs in the Bat-Explorer software that would have otherwise made progress in call identification and analysis very difficult

  • The authors of MAXENT for making their software available free of charge for this research

  • All the people on the Google MAXENT discussion group for the indirect help given from all the postings...

  • All the team who put Quantum GIS (QGIS) together and then make it available free of charge... An incredible resource for researchers or students on a budget!

  • All the contributors to "The R Project", especially the spatstat package that made the initial activity modelling so straightforward.