| the importance of distance to resources in the spatial modelling of bat foraging habitat. | many bats are threatened by habitat loss, but opportunities to manage their habitats are now increasing. success of management depends greatly on the capacity to determine where and how interventions should take place, so models predicting how animals use landscapes are important to plan them. bats are quite distinctive in the way they use space for foraging because (i) most are colonial central-place foragers and (ii) exploit scattered and distant resources, although this increases flying costs ... | 2011 | 21547076 |
| karyotypic evolution and phylogenetic relationships in the order chiroptera as revealed by g-banding comparison and chromosome painting. | bats are a unique but enigmatic group of mammals and have a world-wide distribution. the phylogenetic relationships of extant bats are far from being resolved. here, we investigated the karyotypic relationships of representative species from four families of the order chiroptera by comparative chromosome painting and banding. a complete set of painting probes derived from flow-sorted chromosomes of myotis myotis (family vespertilionidae) were hybridized onto metaphases of cynopterus sphinx (2n = ... | 2007 | 17310301 |
| assessing niche partitioning of co-occurring sibling bat species by dna metabarcoding. | niche partitioning through foraging is a mechanism likely involved in facilitating the coexistence of ecologically similar and co-occurring animal species by separating their use of resources. yet, this mechanism is not well understood in flying insectivorous animals. this is particularly true of bats, where many ecologically similar or cryptic species coexist. the detailed analysis of the foraging niche in sympatric, cryptic sibling species provides an excellent framework to disentangle the rol ... | 2018 | 29411450 |
| what mechanism of niche segregation allows the coexistence of sympatric sibling rhinolophid bats? | | 2012 | 23148596 |
| female mate choice can drive the evolution of high frequency echolocation in bats: a case study with rhinolophus mehelyi. | animals employ an array of signals (i.e. visual, acoustic, olfactory) for communication. natural selection favours signals, receptors, and signalling behaviour that optimise the received signal relative to background noise. when the signal is used for more than one function, antagonisms amongst the different signalling functions may constrain the optimisation of the signal for any one function. sexual selection through mate choice can strongly modify the effects of natural selection on signallin ... | 2014 | 25075972 |
| variation in ectoparasite load in the mehely's horseshoe bat, rhinolophus mehelyi (chiroptera: rhinolophidae) in a nursery colony in western iran. | we studied variation of ectoparasite load in a free ranging populations of mehely's horseshoe bat (rhinolophus mehelyi) on five successive occasions in a nursery roost in western iran. in total, 87 rhinolophus mehelyi were captured. the patterns of abundance differed greatly among parasite species but total parasite load was markedly higher in pregnant females in spring and early summer and lower in solitary males. on average, 90% of bats were infested by eyndhovenia sp. with a mean intensity of ... | 2013 | 23666653 |