About the Authors

Kieran D. O’Malley

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Evolution Behaviour and Environment, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

William E. Kunin

Roles Supervision

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Matthew Town

Roles Resources, Supervision

Affiliation African Bat Conservation, Lilongwe, Malawi

William O. Mgoola

Roles Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of National Parks and Wildlife Malawi, Lilongwe, Malawi

Emma Louise Stone

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

emma4.stone@uwe.ac.uk

Affiliations African Bat Conservation, Lilongwe, Malawi, Bat Conservation Research Lab, Department of Applied Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.