Friederike Spitzenberger

From May to June 2012, we studied the behaviour of day-roosting reproductive female Geoffroy’s bats in a maternity roost in eastern Burgenland (Austria) which is under surveillance from 2011 till to date. By using a remote-controlled infrared-illuminated video camera, we conducted six weekly sessions of direct observation and instantaneous scan sam...

This paper briefly reviews the taxonomic history of the Plecotus kolombatovici complex, the bat populations which occur in isolated ranges surrounding the Mediterraean Basin, including Maghreb, Tripolitania, Cyrenaica, Anatolia, Balkans, and Italy, plus numerous Mediterranean islands. Since this complex exhibts genetic characters close to Plecotus...

In the years 2012–2017, we studied the annual and diel temporal activity patterns exhibited by female Geoffroy’s bats (Myotis emarginatus) during reproduction by using an infrared light barrier system, videotaping with an infrared camera and sporadic direct counts of juveniles in the roost when the adult bats were not present. We determined the eff...

A complete list of bat records available from Albania was compiled from the literature and from new records, based mainly on field studies and examination of several museum specimens. The record review is complemented with distribution maps, summaries of distributional status of the particular species, notes on field data, and records of arthropod...

Pups of Myotis emarginatus exhibit bold markings in their natal coat. They consist of a neck band, a dorsal middle stripe, and a diamond-shaped spot in the distal part of the back. Furthermore, the posterior side of the ears shows a conspicuous pattern. These markings slowly disappear in the course of lactation. Apparently, such temporary body mark...

Abstract. A complete list of bat records available from Libya was compiled from literature and from new records, based on field studies and examination of museum specimens. The record review is complemented by distribution maps, summaries of distributional status of the particular species, files of field data, findings on feeding ecology, observati...

Abstract Rodents are important reservoirs for a large number of zoonotic pathogens. We examined the occurrence of 11 viral, bacterial, and parasitic agents in rodent populations in Austria, including three different hantaviruses, lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus, orthopox virus, Leptospira spp., Borrelia spp., Rickettsia spp., Bartonella spp., Co...

The populations of bats hibernating in Hermann’s Cave, Lower Austria, have been intensively studied for almost 160 years. Here we present the population trend of Rhinolophus hipposideros during the period 1985–2013. In contrast to wintering populations in nearby caves in Styria/Austria as well as in neighbouring countries (Czech Republic, Slovakia,...

During its postglacial westward expansion, Apodemus agrarius reached Austria in 1996 and until 2013 it colonised an area almost 140 km in length and 56 km in width in this country. Simultaneously, major range expansions were observed in Slovenia, Hungary, Slovakia and Moravia. Oscillations of the western distribution border in Central Europe during...

Contrary to other mammalian orders, bats face a very low risk of predation. Nocturnality and the capacity to reach remote shelters by active flight offer little opportunities for diurnal avian and terrestrial mammalian predators. Here, we report on direct real time observations of a tawny owl attacking Geoffroy’s bats which may help to clarify the...

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Species diversity, population trends and the significance of some macro-ecological parameters for hibernating bats (Mammalla, Chiroptera) in the southern foothills of the Eastern Alps (Styria, Austria). — In the present study population trends ofbats which hibernate in the south eastern foothills ofthe Austnan Mps arc investigated. We analysed coun...

The first maternity colony of Nyctalus noctula in Austria was found in 2006. The possibility of an ongoing expansion of the European nursing area is discussed.

In 2006, two males and one female of Myotis alcathoe were captured by mistnets at two localities in southern Burgenland, Austria. For two individuals the preliminary specific identification based on external measurements was confirmed by sequencing parts of the mitochondrial ND1 gene. Across the sequenced region, the two analysed bats share a 100%...

a b s t r a c t . geographic isolation of small populations in refugia during late pleistocene glaciations resulted in population differentiation that in some cases lead to speciation. We report the karyotype of Microtus bavaricus, an evolutionary young and threatened rodent endemic to the alps. our results show that the karyotype of M. bavaricus i...

The phylogenetic relationships within the genus Plecotus were assessed using molecular as well as morphological methods. With only three species missing, our study is based on an almost comprehensive taxonomic sampling. The genetic analysis comprised 151 individuals from throughout the range. Sequences of two mitochondrial sections, parts of the 16...

Two Apodemus agrarius recently collected in the Austrian part of the drained fen Hansâg are taken as evidence that a dead field mouse which was found in the reed belt of the Neusiedler See / Fertö-to near Illmitz in January 2003 originated from a population existing in northwestern Hungary. Contrary to earlier data (including MITCHELL-JONES et al....

Genetic and morphological analyses of long-eared bats from Northern Ossetia and other Caucasian localities revealed that the sister clade of Plecotus auritus discovered in the Eastern Alps (SPITZENBERGER et al., 2001) and described as a new species by Spitzenberger (SPITZENBERGER et al., 2002) (Plecotus microdontus) and by KIEFER & VEITH (2002) (Pl...

To elucidate the phylogenetic relationships of Alpine voles comprising the Microtus multiplex complex and related species the mitochondrial control region (CR) was employed as a genetic marker. Forty specimens were analysed representing the taxa Microtus liechtensteini, Microtus multiplex, and Microtus bavaricus (samples from 11 geographic regions)...

SPITZENBERGER et al. (2001) reported the existence of more than two different genetic clades within long-eared bats in Austria. A genetic analysis of one specimen from the Dalmatian island of Lastovo (Croatia), close to the locus typicus of Plecotus kolombatovici, and an additional morphological analysis of specimens from some other Dalmatian islan...

The type of Talpa streeti is shown to be cranially very close to and thus probably conspecific with Scaptochirus davidianus, a little known mole described from the border between "Syria and Asia Minor". The pelvis of T. davidiana is of caecoidal type, thus disproving any relationship between this species and Scaptochirus moschatus from China. This...

The type of Talpa streeti is shown to be cranially very close to and thus probably conspecific with Scaptochirus davidianus, a littLe known mole described from the border between "Syria and Asia Minor". The pelvis of T. davidiana is of caecoidal type, thus disproving any relationship between this species and Scaptochirus moschatus from China. This...

Uni- and multivariate analyses of skull measurements of 215 Plecotus specimens (190 from Austria and 25 from the Balkan peninsula) revealed the existence of three morphologically distinct groups: P auritus (from all over Austria and Albania), P. austriacus (from NE and SE Austria, Croatia, Bosnia, Yugoslavia, Greece and Turkish Thrace), and a third...

The M-1-morphology of seven isolated populations of voles displaying a pitymyan rhombus from the Eastern Alps (including the probably extinct Microtus bavaricus) was compared with that of M. multiplex, M. liechtensteini, and M. tatricus as well as among each other, by using discriminant and canonical discriminant analyses. The general morphometry o...

Variation of external and skull measurements, pelage colour and non-metric traits of 15 geographic samples of Austrian bank voles, Clethrionomys glareolus, was studied with univariate and multivariate statistical methods. The results were compared with the results of allozyme analysis of four, and studies of mitochondrial DNA sequences (d-loop and...

The first actual find of the mound building mouse Mus spicilegus in Slovakia, in Bratislava Country south of the Danube, is put on record.

Abstract The recent mammal fauna of Austria comprises 98 wild species. Further, there are roaming domestic cats but no feral populations of any domestic mammal.

Summary The Spiny Mous-population of southern Turkey belongs to the Acomys dimidiatus- group. In colour and relative tail length it is similar to A. minous from Crete and to A. nesiotes from Cyprus, but is separated from these by smaller head and body- and hind foot measurements and very delicate teeth. Differences between this and the most similar...

Distribution maps based on hitherto unpublished (19 of Myotis blythi and 16 of M. myotis) and published records of the two sibling species in Turkey allow in spite of a high degree of sympatricity for the first time a biogeographical interpretation . M. myotis prefers the more humid, M. blythi the more continental regions. In the arid Central Anato...

Mit 2 Abbildungen) Manuskript eingelangt am 2. Dezember 1985 Der vorliegende Band ist Dipl.-Ing. Dr. KURT MAX BAUER zum 60. Geburtstag mit den herzlichsten Glückwünschen für die kommenden Jahre gewidmet. Er soll in der bunten Vielfalt seiner Beiträge die breit gefächerten zoologischen Interessen des Jubilars widerspiegeln und ist Anlaß, seinen Werd...

Im Oktober 1968 führte Reg.-Rat Dr. J. JUNGWIRTH eine anthropologische Untersuchung der in der Melker Stiftskirche beigesetzten Skelette der Baben-berger durch. Es gelang ihm, die stark durchmischten Skeletteile 15 Personen zuzuordnen und deren Identität mit historischen Persönlichkeiten herzu-stellen (JUNGWIRTH, 1971). Bei der Bearbeitung der in e...

Zusammenfassung: Die Brandmaus (Apodemus agrarius) ist in Österreich erstmals 1996 bei Bad Radkersburg in der Südoststeiermark und danach 2003 am Ostufer des Neusiedlersees sowie im Hanság im nördlichen Burgenland unmittelbar an der slowe-nischen bzw. ungarischen Grenze festgestellt worden. Seit 2006 gelangen eine Reihe weiterer Streufunde im Burge...

Zusammenfassung: Ein 1992 in einer Almhütte in der Gemeinde Predlitz-Turrach (1720 m Seehöhe) fotografi ertes Langohr ließ sich anhand der äußeren Merkmale zweifelsfrei als Plecotus macrobullaris bestimmen. Diese Fledermausart wurde erst 2003 in den Alpen entdeckt. Das Foto stellt den ersten und bisher einzigen Nachweis dieser Art in der Steiermark...

Genetic and morphological analyses of long-eared bats from Northern Ossetia and other Caucasian localities revealed that the sister clade of Plecotus auritus discovered in the Eastern Alps (SPITZENBERGER et al., 2001) and described as a new species by Spitzenberger (SPITZENBERGER et al., 2002) (Plecotus microdontus) and by KIEFER & VEITH (2002) (Pl...