Ecosystem services provided by bats

TH Kunz, E Braun de Torrez, D Bauer… - Annals of the New …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Ecosystem services are the benefits obtained from the environment that increase human
well‐being. Economic valuation is conducted by measuring the human welfare gains or …

Roads and bats: a meta‐analysis and review of the evidence on vehicle collisions and barrier effects

AG Fensome, F Mathews - Mammal Review, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Roads are a potential threat to bat conservation. In addition to the direct risk of collision of
bats with vehicles, roads could pose a threat to bat populations as a result of habitat loss …

Relationships between external morphology and foraging behaviour: bats in the genus Myotis

MB Fenton, W Bogdanowicz - Canadian Journal of Zoology, 2002 - cdnsciencepub.com
A morphometric study of 41 species of Myotis revealed significant associations between
morphological features and foraging styles, namely aerial feeding, gleaning, feeding over …

Effects of Clutter on Echolocation Call Structure of Myotis septentrionalisand M. lucifugus

HG Broders, CS Findlay, L Zheng - Journal of Mammalogy, 2004 - academic.oup.com
The structure of echolocation calls, and the distance over which bats perceive their
environment, varies with the amount of structural clutter through which they are flying. Clutter …

Crossing habitat boundaries: coupling dynamics of ecosystems through complex life cycles

S Schreiber, VHW Rudolf - Ecology letters, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Ecosystems are often indirectly connected through consumers with complex life cycles
(CLC), in which different life stages inhabit different ecosystems. Using a structured …

[PDF][PDF] Synthesis and comparison of baseline avian and bat use, raptor nesting and mortality information from proposed and existing wind developments

W Erickson, G Johnson, D Young, D Strickland… - Report for Bonneville …, 2002 - core.ac.uk
Although generally considered environmentally friendly, wind power has been associated
with the death of birds colliding with turbines and other wind plant structures, especially in …

Resource partitioning through oceanic segregation of foraging juvenile southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina)

IC Field, CJA Bradshaw, HR Burton, MD Sumner… - Oecologia, 2005 - Springer
In highly dynamic and unpredictable environments such as the Southern Ocean, species
that have evolved behaviors that reduce the effects of intra-specific competition may have a …

[PDF][PDF] Ecomorphology of bats: comparative and experimental approaches relating structural design to ecology

SM Swartz, PW Freeman… - Papers in Natural …, 2003 - digitalcommons.unl.edu
The past several decades have seen the beginning of integration of discoveries in the
ecology and morphology of bats into an ecomorphological whole that promises to be greater …

Foraging ecology of bats in forests

MJ Lacki, SK Amelon, MD Baker - … (MJ LACKI, JP HAYES, and A …, 2007 - books.google.com
Bats have a greater diversity of behavior, diet, and morphology than any other mammalian
order. As the primary predators of nocturnal insects, bats play a significant role in all forested …

Phenological mismatch and ontogenetic diet shifts interactively affect offspring condition in a passerine

JM Samplonius, EF Kappers, S Brands… - Journal of Animal …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change may cause phenological asynchrony between trophic levels, which can
lead to mismatched reproduction in animals. Although indirect effects of mismatch on fitness …