Succession: The Next Ones at Bat

Hybridization Hotspots at Bat Swarming Sites

During late summer and early autumn in temperate zones of the Northern Hemisphere, thousands of bats gather at caves, mainly for the purpose of mating. We demonstrated that this swarming behavior most probably leads not only to breeding among bats of the same species but also interbreeding between different species. Using 14 nuclear microsatellites and three different methods (the Bayesian assi...

Information transfer at evening bat colonies

Four lines of evidence indicate that evening bats, Nycticeius humeralis, at nursery colonies in northern Missouri transfer information by following each other to feeding and roosting sites . (1) Daily estimates of insect density from five automated suction traps showed that common prey in evening bat faecal samples, small beetles and flies, occur in rich patches that persist for several days . ...

study of late permian (wuchiapingian) brachiopods of sedimentary succession at the zal section, northwest iran

julfa beds at zal section, northwest iran, with 33 meter thickness, are composed of gray, cream to red limestones, nodular in some parts with intercalations of green, gray to red shales. they are very important because they are very rich in the late permian brachiopod. this research, which is focused on the mentioned fauna from the zal section, is led to identification of 38 species of 21 gener...

Global Climate Change, Habitat Fragmentation, and the Lesser Long-Nosed Bat: What next?

Insectivorous bat activity at cenotes in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

Although insectivorous bats represent nearly 65% of the bat fauna of the Neotropics (Simmons, 2005), information on their abundance, distribution, behaviour and habitat associations is scarce in comparison to species within other ensembles. The majority of insectivorous species are difficult to capture and most free-flying bats cannot easily be identified visually when in flight (Preatoni et al...