Maximum likelihood estimators are ineffective for acoustic detection of rare bat species

• Bradley H. Hopp ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bhopp@contractor.epri.com

  Affiliation Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0009-0006-7539-5133

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• Donald I. Solick,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, California, United States of America, Vesper Bat Echolocation Specialists, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America,

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• John Chenger,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Bat Conservation and Management, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Christian M. Newman

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

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