| applying network analysis to the conservation of habitat trees in urban environments: a case study from brisbane, australia. | in australia more than 300 vertebrates, including 43 insectivorous bat species, depend on hollows in habitat trees for shelter with many species using a network of multiple trees as roosts. we used roost-switching data on white-striped freetail bats (tadarida australis; microchiroptera: molossidae) to construct a network representation of day roosts in suburban brisbane, australia. bats were caught from a communal roost tree with a roosting group of several hundred individuals and released with ... | 2006 | 16909578 |
| sensory ecology of predator-prey interactions: responses of the an2 interneuron in the field cricket, teleogryllus oceanicus to the echolocation calls of sympatric bats. | we observed the responses of the an2 interneuron in the pacific field cricket, teleogryllus oceanicus, a cell implicated in eliciting avoidance flight away from bats, to acoustic stimuli representing the echolocation calls of bats as well as field recordings of search and gleaning attack calls of six species of insectivorous sympatric bats (west australia, australia: tadarida australis, chalinolobus goudii, nyctophilus geoffroyi; queensland, australia: vespadelus pumilus, myotis adversus; kaua'i ... | 2005 | 15886992 |
| urban bat communities are affected by wetland size, quality, and pollution levels. | wetlands support unique biota and provide important ecosystem services. these services are highly threatened due to the rate of loss and relative rarity of wetlands in most landscapes, an issue that is exacerbated in highly modified urban environments. despite this, critical ecological knowledge is currently lacking for many wetland-dependent taxa, such as insectivorous bats, which can persist in urban areas if their habitats are managed appropriately. here, we use a novel paired landscape appro ... | 2016 | 27547311 |