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Kloepper, L.N. and Young, V.K.H. 2021. Foundations of form and function: A synthesis-based curriculum for introductory-level organismal biology. Ecology and Evolution, 11, 15458-15467.

Brighton, C.H., Zusi, L., McGowan, K.A., Kinniry. M., Kloepper, L.N. and Taylor, G.K. 2021. Aerial attack strategies of hawks hunting bats, and the adaptive benefits of swarming. Behavioral Ecology, 32, 464-476.

McGowan, K.A. and Kloepper, L.N. 2020. Different as night and day: wild bats modify echolocation in complex environments when visual cues are present. Animal Behaviour, 168, 1-6.

Izadi, R. M., Stevenson, R., and Kloepper, L.N. 2020. Separation of overlapping sources in bioacoustic mixtures. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 147, 1688-1696. 

Kloepper, L.N. 2020. Data, dinners and diapers: traveling with a baby to a scientific conference. Acoustics Today, 16, 85-86.

Kloepper, L.N., Simmons, A.M., and Simmons, J.A. 2019. Echolocation while drinking: pulse-timing strategies by high- and low-frequency FM bats. PLoS ONE 14: e0226114.

Kloepper, L.N. 2019. It is our responsibility to teach science communication to students. Acoustics Today, 15, 51-52.

Kloepper, L.N. and Branstetter, B.K. 2019. The effect of jamming stimuli on the echolocation behavior of the bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 145, 1341-1352.

Kampfer, P., Bizet, C., Clermont, D., Criscuolo, A., Kloepper, L.N., Duncan, M.B., McInroy, J.A., Kloepper, J.W., Schumann, P., and Glaeser, S.P. 2019. Filibacter tadaridae sp. nov., isolated from within a guano pile from a colony of Mexican free-tailed bats Tadarida brasiliensis. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 69, 1438-1442.

Kloepper, L.N. and Kinniry, M. 2018. Recording animal vocalizations from a UAV: bat echolocation during roost re-entry. Scientific Reports. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-26122-z

Newman, M.M., Kloepper, L.N., Duncan, M., McInroy, J.A., and Kloepper, J.W. 2018. Variation in bat guano bacterial community composition with depth. Frontiers in Microbiology Extreme Microbiology. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00914

Fu, Y., Kinniry, M., and Kloepper, L.N. 2018. The Chirocopter: a UAV for recording sound and video of bats at altitude. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.12992

Fu, Y. and Kloepper, L.N. 2018. A systematic methodology for isolating, tracking and discriminating time-frequency components of bat echolocation calls. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 143, 716-726.

Kloepper, L.N., Buck, J.R., Liu, Y., and Nachtigall, P.E. 2018. Off-axis targets maximize bearing Fisher Information in broadband active sonar. JASA-EL, 10.1121/1.5021709.

Kloepper, L.N. and Bentley, I. 2017. Stereotypy of group flight in Brazilian free-tailed bats. Animal Behaviour, 131, 123-130.

Kloepper, L.N., Linnenschmidt, M., Blowers, Z., Branstetter, B., Ralston, J., and Simmons, J.A.2016. Estimating colony sizes of emerging bats using acoustic recordings. Royal Society Open Science 3(3), 160022.

Smith, A., Kloepper, L.N., Yang, W-C., Huang, W-H., Jen, I-F., Rideout, B., and Nachtigall, P.E. 2016. Transmission beam pattern characteristics of a Risso’s dolphin (Grampus griseus). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 139, 53-62

Kloepper, L.N., Buck. J.R., Smith, A.B., Supin, A.Ya., Gaudette, J.E., and Nachtigall, P.E. 2015. Support for the beam focusing hypothesis in the false killer whale. The Journal of Experimental Biology, 218: 2455-2462.

Miller, J.H., Kloepper, L.N., Potty, G.R., Spivack, A.J., D'Hondt, S.L., Turner, C., and Simmons, A.M. 2015. The effects of pH on acoustic transmission loss in an estuary. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics 22, 005001. 

Kloepper, L.N., and Simmons, A.M. 2014. Bioacoustic monitoring contributes to an understanding of climate change. Acoustics Today, 10: 8-15. 

Kloepper, L.N., Gaudette, J.E., Simmons, J.A., and Buck, J.R. 2014. Mouth gape angle has little effect on the transmitted signals of big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 136: 1964-1971 

Kloepper, L.N., Smith, A.B., Nachtigall, P.E., Buck, J.R., Simmons, J.A., and Pacini, A.F. 2014. Cognitive adaptation of sonar gain control in the bottlenose dolphin. PLoS ONE, 9(8): e105938. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0105938

Kloepper, L.N. and Gaudette, J.E. 2014. Exploring the dynamics of mammalian vocal-motor processes with emerging advanced technology. Journal of PostDoctoral Research 2(5): 16-23.

Simmons, J.A., Houser, D.S., and Kloepper, L.N. 2014. Localization and classification of targets by echolocating bats and dolphins. In: Biosonar (eds. Surlykke, A., Nachtigall, P.E., Fay, R.R., and Popper, A.N.), 169-193.

Gaudette, J.E., Kloepper, L.N., Warnecke, M., and Simmons, J.A. 2013. High resolution acoustic measurement system and beam pattern reconstruction method for bat echolocation emissions. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 135: 513-520

Kloepper, L.N. 2013. Using array technology to understand dynamics of echolocation in bats and toothed whales. Journal of PostDoctoral Research, 1(4): 1- 8.

Simmons, J.A., Gaudette, J.E., and Kloepper, L.N. 2013. Object selection by head aim and acoustic gaze in the big brown bat. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics 19, 010036

Kloepper, L.N., Nachtigall, P.E., Donahue, M.J. and Breese, M. 2012. Active echolocation beam focusing in the false killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens). The Journal of Experimental Biology, 215: 1306-1312.

Kloepper, L.N., Nachtigall, P.E. and Breese, M. 2012. What you see is not what you hear: the relationship between odontocete hearing and echolocation click production.  Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 730: 155-156.

Kloepper. L.N., Nachtigall, P.E., Quintos, C. and Vlachos, S. 2012. Single-lobed frequency dependent beam shape in an echolocating false killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens).  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 131: 577-581.

Ibsen, S., Nachtigall, P., Krause-Nehring, J., Kloepper, L., and Breese, M. 2012. Spatial orientation of different frequencies within the echolocation beam of a Tursiops truncatus and Pseudorca crassidens. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 132: 1213-1221.

Linnenschmidt, M., Kloepper, L.N., Wahlberg, M., and Nachtigall, P.E. 2012. Stereotypical rapid source level regulation in the harbour porpoise biosonar. Naturwissenschaften, 99: 767-771.

Pacini, A.F., Nachtigall, P.E., and Kloepper, L.N. 2012. Portable auditory evoked potential system to assess odontocete hearing. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 730: 225-227.

Lemonds, D.W., Kloepper, L.N., Nachtigall, P.E., Au, W.W.L., and Vlachos, S.A. 2011. A re-evaluation of auditory filter shape in delphinid odontocetes: Evidence of constant-bandwidth filters. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 130: 3107-3114.

Kloepper, L.N., Nachtigall, P.E., Gisiner, R. and Breese, M. 2010. Decreased echolocation performance following hearing loss in a false killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens).  Journal of Experimental Biology, 213: 3717-3722.

Kloepper, L.N., Nachtigall, P.E. and Breese, M. 2010. Change in echolocation signals with hearing loss in a false killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 128: 2233-2237.

Pacini, A.F., Nachtigall, P.E., Kloepper, L.N., Linnenschmidt, M., Sogorb, A., and Matias, S. 2010. Audiogram of a formerly stranded long-finned pilot whale (Globicephala melas): measured using auditory evoked potentials.  Journal of Experimental Biology. 213: 3138-3143.