Do predators influence the behaviour of bats?

SL Lima, JM O'Keefe - Biological Reviews, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Many aspects of animal behaviour are affected by real‐time changes in the risk of predation.
This conclusion holds for virtually all taxa and ecological systems studied, but does it hold …

Auditory opportunity and visual constraint enabled the evolution of echolocation in bats

J Thiagavel, C Cechetto, SE Santana… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Substantial evidence now supports the hypothesis that the common ancestor of bats was
nocturnal and capable of both powered flight and laryngeal echolocation. This scenario …

Adverse effects of artificial illumination on bat drinking activity

D Russo, L Cistrone, N Libralato, C Korine… - Animal …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Artificial illumination at night (ALAN) alters many aspects of animal behaviour. Commuting
and foraging bats have been found to be affected by ALAN, but no study has yet addressed …

Artificial light at night drives diel activity patterns of synanthropic pipistrelle bats and their prey

C Hermans, I Litovska, M de Pastors, ME Visser… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
The use of artificial light at night (ALAN) has increased drastically worldwide over the last
decades. ALAN can have major effects on nocturnal communities, including insects and …

Patterns in the use of rainforest vertical space by Neotropical aerial insectivorous bats: all the action is up in the canopy

JT Marques, MJ Ramos Pereira, JM Palmeirim - Ecography, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In tropical rainforests environmental conditions vary dramatically from the ground to the
canopy, resulting in a marked stratification in the way vertical space is used by organisms …

The bat–bird–bug battle: Daily flight activity of insects and their predators over a rice field revealed by high-resolution scheimpflug lidar

E Malmqvist, S Jansson, S Zhu, W Li… - Royal Society …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We present the results of, to our knowledge, the first Lidar study applied to continuous and
simultaneous monitoring of aerial insects, bats and birds. It illustrates how common patterns …

Protecting one, protecting both? Scale‐dependent ecological differences in two species using dead trees, the rosalia longicorn beetle and the barbastelle bat

D Russo, M Di Febbraro, L Cistrone, G Jones… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Organisms sharing the same habitats may differ in small‐scale microhabitat requirements or
benefit from different management. In this study, set in I taly, we focused on two species of …

Scientific statement on the coverage of bats by the current pesticide risk assessment for birds and mammals

EFSA Panel on Plant Protection Products and … - EFSA …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Bats are an important group of mammals, frequently foraging in farmland and potentially
exposed to pesticides. This statement considers whether the current risk assessment …

Diurnal activity of a trawling insectivorous bat species, Myotis horsfieldii, in Gunung Mulu National Park, Malaysian Borneo

E Mc Arthur, JCC Huang, A López-Baucells… - Journal of Natural …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Bats are typically nocturnal. However, daylight activity (ie between one hour after sunrise
and one hour before sunset) is known for a small subset of species, often associated with …

Out of the dark: Diurnal activity in the bat Hipposideros ruber on São Tomé island (West Africa)

D Russo, G Maglio, A Rainho, CFJ Meyer… - Mammalian …, 2011 - Springer
Geographical areas historically characterized by a lower risk of diurnal avian predation
should in theory allow bats to be active in daytime too, especially to forage. Oceanic islands …