From spatial orientation to food acquisition in echolocating bats

HU Schnitzler, CF Moss, A Denzinger - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2003 - cell.com
Field research on echolocation behavior in bats has emphasized studies of food acquisition,
and the adaptive value of sonar signal design as been considered largely in the context of …

A comparative analysis of brain size in relation to foraging ecology and phylogeny in the Chiroptera

JM Hutcheon, JAW Kirsch, T Garland Jr - Brain, behavior and evolution, 2002 - karger.com
Variations in total brain mass and in the mass of three brain regions (main olfactory bulb,
hippocampus, auditory nuclei) were examined using a data set for 63 species of bats …

The use of automated identification of bat echolocation calls in acoustic monitoring: A cautionary note for a sound analysis

D Russo, CC Voigt - Ecological Indicators, 2016 - Elsevier
Bats are a species-rich order of mammals providing key ecosystem services. Because bats
are threatened by human action and also serve as important bioindicators, monitoring their …

[图书][B] Bats of southern and central Africa: a biogeographic and taxonomic synthesis

A Monadjem, PJ Taylor, MC Schoeman - 2020 - books.google.com
This revised edition of a book first published in 2010 supplements the original account of the
116 bat species then known to be found in Southern and Central Africa with an additional …

Assessing the completeness of bat biodiversity inventories using species accumulation curves

CE Moreno, G Halffter - Journal of Applied ecology, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
In this study we used species accumulation models to solve one of the most serious
problems encountered when comparing species richness between different communities …

Primitive Early Eocene bat from Wyoming and the evolution of flight and echolocation

NB Simmons, KL Seymour, J Habersetzer, GF Gunnell - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
Bats (Chiroptera) represent one of the largest and most diverse radiations of mammals,
accounting for one-fifth of extant species. Although recent studies unambiguously support …

Biological correlates of extinction risk in bats

KE Jones, A Purvis, JL Gittleman - The American Naturalist, 2003 - journals.uchicago.edu
We investigated patterns and processes of extinction and threat in bats using a multivariate
phylogenetic comparative approach. Of nearly 1,000 species worldwide, 239 are considered …

Bat mobility and roosts in a fragmented landscape in central Amazonia, Brazil

E Bernard, MB Fenton - Biotropica, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
In spite of the important role played by bats in tropical ecosystems, little is known about how
they are affected by habitat fragmentation. By using a mark/recapture protocol and …

[图书][B] Ecological and environmental physiology of mammals

PC Withers, CE Cooper, SK Maloney, F Bozinovic… - 2016 - books.google.com
Mammals are the so-called" pinnacle" group of vertebrates, successfully colonising virtually
all terrestrial environments as well as the air (bats) and sea (especially pinnipeds and …

A nuclear DNA phylogenetic perspective on the evolution of echolocation and historical biogeography of extant bats (Chiroptera)

GN Eick, DS Jacobs, CA Matthee - Molecular Biology and …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Bats (Order Chiroptera), the only mammals capable of powered flight and
sophisticated laryngeal echolocation, represent one of the most species-rich and ubiquitous …