Andrea Pereswiet-Soltan

Polish Academy of Sciences | PAN · Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals

Different bat species adapt to urban environments with varying efficiency. Urban watercourses may promote bats' presence in the city but also, because of improper management, may become an impassable barrier. This work evaluated the bats' presence in different urban riverside environments during the vegetation season. Bats' activity was recorded in...

Lloviu cuevavirus (LLOV) was the first identified member of Filoviridae family outside the Ebola and Marburgvirus genera. A massive die-off of Schreibers’s bats (Miniopterus schreibersii) in the Iberian Peninsula in 2002 led to its initial discovery. Recent studies with recombinant and wild-type LLOV isolates confirmed the zoonotic nature of the vi...

The recent developments in palaeoecological reconstruction methods, collagen extraction of small bone samples and ancient DNA analyses led us to test new approaches to enhance the chronological resolution of past climate reconstructions inferred from small mammal assemblages. Grotta della Ferrovia (Fabriano, Ancona, Italy, 40 25 0 36 00 N, 13 0 0 1...

Riassunto Nel seguente lavoro vengono esposti una parte dei risultati ottenuti durante il progetto "Ruolo ecologico-funzionale delle principali cavità dei Lessini Vicentini per la chirotterofauna", finanziato dalla Federazione Speleologica Veneta e svoltosi nel triennio 2009-2011. L'analisi si concentra sulla presenza invernale e sull'attività nott...

Introduzione Durante le esplorazioni e le visite speleologiche, si instaura un'interazione, spesso inconsapevole, tra l'uomo e la fauna sotterranea, sia invertebrata che vertebrata, con conseguente responsabilità da parte dei fruitori degli ambienti sotterranei di tutelare questi organismi. Tra i vertebrati ci sono i Chirotteri che sono gli unici m...

Lloviu cuevavirus (LLOV) was the first identified member of Filoviridae family outside the Ebola and Marburgvirus genera. A massive die-off of Schreibers’ bent-winged bats ( Miniopterus schreibersii ) in the Iberian Peninsula in 2002 led to its discovery. Studies with recombinant and wild-type LLOV isolates confirmed the susceptibility of human-der...

The Early Pleistocene is an epoch where wide environmental changes, driven by climate instabilities, were registered by multiple lines of evidence in different chronostratigraphic records, both continental and marine. Among these records, small mammals are one of the most reliable for understanding how faunal assemblages responded to the climate sh...

The Holocene has always been considered a crucial epoch where the major cultural steps of humankind took place. Understanding past Holocene climatic variability, shifts in vegetation, and faunal communities are among crucial challenges in predicting the upcoming changes of the natural environment. In Central Europe, the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland i...

Municipal greenery can mitigate the negative impact of urbanization on biodiversity, including bats, by providing a migration corridor, food base and roosts. Our study aimed to evaluate the species composition and diversity, test the differences in activity between seasons, and identify the atmospheric conditions influencing the bats’ activity in t...

Municipal greenery can mitigate the negative impact of urbanization on biodiversity, including bats, by providing a migration corridor, food base, and roosts. Our study aimed to evaluate the species composition and diversity, test the differences in activity between seasons, and identify the atmospheric conditions explaining the bats' activity in t...

Among the well-known small mammal assemblages of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, the one from Tunel Wielki Cave is one of the most interesting for the Pleistocene biochronology of Poland. As a new trench was opened in 2018, it was possible to reanalyse the entire sequence. Its complex stratigraphy is divided into two phases: the Holocene–Late Pleist...

The study of past environments, their ecology, and detailed changes through time has become an important task of environmental science. Records of paleoenvironment usually vary between regions owing to different influences of local climate, vegetation, relief, and depositional processes. Therefore, studying local sequences thoroughly allows paleoen...

A cave site Shelter in Smoleń III (southern Poland) contains an approximately 2-m-thick stratified sequence of Upper Pleistocene and Holocene clastic sediments, unique for Central Europe. The sequence contents abundant fossil fauna, including mollusk, rodent and bat remains. The cave sites with long profiles of subfossil fauna present a great value...

There is a widespread belief that the abrupt warming at 14.7 ka had a profound impact on the environment. However, the direct correlation between the global climatic event and changes in local environments is not obvious. We examined faunal succession in an intra-mountain basin of the Western Carpathians to assess the potential influence of the cli...

Most of the studies on the behaviour of bats concern open environments or entrances of underground environments. Rarely there have been studies about the behaviour of bats inside caves. In this study, we focus both on the activity of bats during the year and their use of particular rooms inside the caves. The former part concerns Coal di Campore ca...

Summary. Autumnal activity of Chiroptera in different natural environments in a suburban context (WWF Oasis of Stagni di Casale, Vicenza, NE Italy). The aim of the study was to evaluate the tendency of Chiroptera activity during autumnal period in a natural area situated in a suburban context. The research has been conducted at the WWF Oasis of St...

Riassunto. Data la scarsità di notizie sulla chirotterofauna riguardante il territorio comunale di Belluno, nel quadriennio 2015-2018 si è intrapresa una ricerca condotta su un'area suburbana, prevalentemente collinare e situata immediatamente a ovest del capoluogo. Lo studio è stato svolto principalmente mediante monitoraggio bioacustico attivo e...

The taxonomy of many fossil shrews in Europe is still unclear. The aim of the study was to establish the validity and the taxonomic status of the European fossil shrew, Sorex subaraneus, often compared with or identified as other fossil and recent species: Sorex runtonensis, Sorex tundrensis, Sorex satunini and Sorex araneus. Middle Pleistocene mat...

Studies concerning bat autumn swarming behavior suggest that the main purpose of this phenomenon is mating. However, the process of fat accumulation is crucial for surviving winter, and it seems to be in clear conflict with a need to strive for the opportunity to mate prior to hibernation. Investment in one activity limits the other one creating a...

This chapter is a taxonomic study of the animal remains discovered in trench A in Sarakenos Cave (Greece)

The Ciota Ciara cave is located within the Monte Fenera karst system (Borgosesia, Vercelli, Italy) at 670 m a.s.l. The cave entrance presents a deposit with Mousterian quartz and flint industry. The faunal remains from Stratigraphic Units 13, 14 and 103 are the subject of this work and are presented here as a whole for the first time. The large mam...

Although Dobšina Ice Cave (DIC, Carpathians, Slovakia) is located outside the high-mountain area, it hosts one of the most extensive blocks of perennial subterranean ice, the volume of which is estimated at more than 110,000 m3. Frozen bat remains were found in the lowermost part of the perennial ice block. They belong to Myotis blythii (Tomes) and...

Riassunto. Viste le scarse notizie riguardanti i chirotteri del Veneto, a partire dal 2009 sono state intraprese alcune ricerche riguardanti la distribuzione e l'ecologia di questi mammiferi. Questi studi hanno riguardato varie tipologie di ambiente: termofilo caratterizzato da grandi affioramenti rocciosi nella parte orientale e centrale dei Colli...

Riassunto. Il territorio del Veneto è dotato di una notevole quantità di ambienti ipogei, sia artificiali che naturali. Ciò nonostante le segnalazioni riguardanti la presenza di chirotteri sono scarse, spesso datate e non metodiche. Sono quindi stati intrapresi dei monitoraggi sistematici di cavità sotterranee nei Lessini, nei Colli Berici e nella...

Riassunto. Indagini condotte in provincia di Vicenza a partire dal 2008 hanno permesso di catturare 2 esemplari di Plecotus macrobullaris. Ritenuti inizialmente tali sulla base di caratteri morfologici, gli esemplari sono stati determinati in modo convincente grazie all'analisi genetica del DNA mitocondriale (DNA barcoding) estratto da campioni del...

This article reports on the first record of Eptesicus serotinus (Schreber, 1774) for the Early and Middle Holocene of southern Europe. Fragments of mandibles, maxilla, rostra, humeri, and radii from this species were collected in Mesolithic and Neolithic layers of Sarakenos Cave (Boeotia, Greece). This provides evidence of the presence of the serot...

1 Hanno variamente collaborato alla redazione e alla discussione del presente documento, condividendone i contenuti: Foto: Mara Calvini (copertina, pag. 18), Paolo Debernardi (copertina, pagg. 6 alto e basso dx, 11, 14 alto e basso dx, 23, 25 sn, 30, 35, 44), Gianna Dondini (pag. 28), Carlotta Fassina (pag. 39), Francesco Grazioli (14 basso sn, 24,...

Bat geographic distribution North of the Carpathians Recent bat fauna in the area North of the Carpathians (Poland) consist of 25 species (2 Rhinolophidae and 23 Vespertilionidae). 25 bat species recorded so far from Poland can be divided into three groups: 1. Species limited to the southern Poland, occurred in the Polish Segment of the Carpathians...

From northern Africa to northern Scandinavian Peninsula there are several climatic areas: Mediterranean, temperate, continental, hemiboreal, milder. A certain structure and abundance of the cheiropterological fauna correspond to each of them. Basing on these correlations, the chiropteran species of Europe are divided in three groups: strongly therm...