In Press

Hughes, M., Roper, M., Van Caenegem, W., Poyner, S., Jongerius, E., Van der Wijden, B., Csorba, G., Antal, T., Middleton, N., Vance, K., Langmuir, N., Williams, A., Jelic, D., & Martin., T. E. (Accepted). Efficacy of lure spinners for improving the catch rate of bats in a systematic trial in Krka National Park, Croatia . Acta Chiropterologica.   

Hughes, M., Mironova, P., Blažević, M., Cantero Sanchez, V., Fox, S., Goeter, A., Haelewaters, D., Jones, D., Krajnović, M., Kurali, A., Langmuir, N., Murray, J., Poyner, S., Roper, M., Soria, C., Suvoroga, A., Vance, K., Van Caenegen, W., Jelić, D., & Martin, T. E. (Submitted) An annotated checklist of bats (Chiroptera) of Krka National Park, Croatia. Journal of Bat Research and Conservation. 

Hughes, M., Betteridge, E., Collinson, M., Hopwood, P., Dolan, M., & Dolan, B. (Submitted) Predicting the sex of wintering Jack Snipe Lymnocryptes minimus using morphometric measurements: a UK Case Study. Ringing and Migration.  

Hughes, M., Brown, S. K., Redfern, T., Perry, R., Maddock, S., & Young, C.H. (Accepted) Crossing point surveys show urban common pipistrelles are at greater risk of direct mortality from roads than Daubenton’s bats. British Island Bats.

Journal Manuscripts

Hughes, M., Brown, S. K., Redfern, T., Perry, R., Maddock, S., & Young, C. H. (2026). Using Multi-Point Activity Surveys for identifying Daubenton's bat (Myotis daubentonii, Kuhl, 1817) commuting routes and selecting candidate dark corridors: A case study from the West Midlands, UK. Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 7(4), e70331. https://doi.org/10.1002/2688-8319.70331

Hughes, M., Gilbert, E., Day, J., Napaul, S., Harvey, C. E., Thomas, O., Phangurha, J., Goshen, J., O’Brien, A. R., Atanasova, I., Abdullah, A., Šimić, T., Blažević, M., Murray, J., Martin, T. E., & Jelić, D. (2026). An annotated checklist of the herpetofauna of Krka National Park, Croatia. Acta Herpetologica. https://doi.org/10.36253/a_h-20183

Hughes, M., Jelić, D., & Martin, T. E. (2026). Unusual roost site selection in the first recorded maternity colony of Bechstein’s bat Myotis bechsteinii (Kuhl, 1817) in Croatia. Mammal Communications, 11, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.59922/mc-26x01pa

Hughes, M., Laux, M. (2026). Temporal, species-specific variation in activity patterns of bats (Chiroptera) along a boreal river basin in Västerbotten, Sweden. Wildlife Biology, e01612. https://doi.org/10.1002/wlb3.01612

Haelewaters, D., Hughes, M., Barão-Nóbrega, J. A. L., Slater, K. Y., & Martin, T. E. (2024). Standard deviation: Standardized bat monitoring techniques work better in some ecosystems. PLoS ONE, 19(12), e0311553. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0311553

Hughes, M., Brown, S. K., Martin, R., Young, C. H., & Maddock, S. (2024). Successful DNA amplification from non-destructive buccal swabbing in vespertilionid and rhinolophid bats. Conservation Genetics Resources, 16, 199–202. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12686-024-01352-8

Hughes, M., Murray, J., Graves, V., Byford, M., Dias, J., Bazeley, E., Bailey, J., Bajić, P., Jelić, D., & Martin, T. E. (2024). Updated checklist of the terrestrial mammals of Krka National Park, Croatia (Mammalia). Lynx, new series, 55(1), 157–172. https://doi.org/10.37520/lynx.2024.006

Hughes, M., Brown, S. K., Foster-Plume, D., Lee, D., Redfern, T., Maddock, S., & Young, C. H. (2023). Big city bats: Species-specific effects of the urban matrix on forearm length and fat stores of bats in the West Midlands, United Kingdom (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Lynx, new series, 54(1), 75–82. https://doi.org/10.37520/lynx.2023.005

Hughes, M., Brown, S. K., Redfern, T., Perry, R., Maddock, S. T., & Young, C. H. (2023). Multi-Point Activity Surveys: A novel technique for the analysis of the movements of Daubenton’s bat Myotis daubentonii (Kuhl, 1817) on waterways. British Islands Bats, 4, 5–11.

Hughes, M., Cross, C., & Brown, S. K. (2023). Interspecific cohabitation of maternity colonies of Nyctalus noctula and Myotis daubentonii (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in a single roost feature in the West Midlands, UK. Journal of Bat Research & Conservation, 16(1). https://doi.org/10.14709/BarbJ.16.1.2023.02

Hughes, M., Hopwood, P., Dolan, M., & Dolan, B. (2022). Using wing length for sexing Eurasian Skylark Alauda arvensis: Examples from a British population. Ringing & Migration, 37(1–2), 58–62. https://doi.org/10.1080/03078698.2023.2242052

Hughes, M., Hopwood, P., Dolan, M., & Dolan, B. (2022). Applications of thermal imaging for bird surveys: Examples from the field. Ringing & Migration, 36(2), 78–81. https://doi.org/10.1080/03078698.2022.2123026

Hughes, M., Thomas, O., Suvorova, A., Saunders, T., Krajnović, M., Jelić, D., Martin, T. E., & Haelewaters, D. (2021). The skynet, a new method to capture bats over water. Journal of Bat Research & Conservation, 14(1), 215–221. https://doi.org/10.14709/BarbJ.14.1.2021.18

Hughes, M., Brown, S. K., Maddock, S. T., & Young, C. H. (2021). Changing the maps of urban bat distribution. British Islands Bats, 2, 34–43.

Hughes, M., Brown, S. K., Kaburu, S. S. K., Maddock, S. T., & Young, C. H. (2020). Advanced survey effort required to obtain bat assemblage data in temperate woodlands (Chiroptera). Lynx, new series, 51(1), 41–48. https://doi.org/10.37520/lynx.2020.004

Hughes, M., Brown, S. K., Besenyei, L., & Maddock, S. T. (2020). Baseline bat (Chiroptera) assemblages of Santa Lucia Cloud Forest Reserve, Pichincha, Ecuador. Proceedings of the Birmingham Natural History Society, 30(2), 64–79.

Other Published Outputs

Hughes, M., & Brown, S. (2022). A provisional atlas of bats of Birmingham and the Black Country. Birmingham and Black Country Bat Group. ISBN 978-1-3999-3247-9.

Hughes, M., & Brown, S. K. (2021). Badger dung pits as a seasonal food resource for mammals and birds: Implications for urban surveys. In Practice, 114.

Hughes, M. (2021). An interim atlas of the bats of Birmingham and the Black Country. The Birmingham and Black Country Bat Group. DOI:10.13140/RG.2.2.24844.64644

Hughes, M. (Ed.). (2005). A provisional atlas of reptiles and amphibians in Birmingham and the Black Country. The Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country. ISBN: 9780955213205