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Chiroptera is the only mammalian order that has adapted to active flight, offering a unique platform to study ecomorphological adaptations. While bats exhibit a diverse diet, the focus of this study is on insectivorous bats, specifically four species: Myotis daubentonii, Nyctalus noctula, Plecotus austriacus and Rhinolophus ferrumequinum. It is imp...
Acoustic monitoring is an effective and scalable way to assess the health of important bioindicators like bats in the wild. However, the large amounts of resulting noisy data requires accurate tools for automatically determining the presence of different species of interest. Machine learning-based solutions offer the potential to reliably perform t...
Individuals within both moving and stationary groups arrange themselves in a predictable manner; for example, some individuals are consistently found at the front of the group or in the periphery and others in the center. Each position may be associated with various costs, such as greater exposure to predators, and benefits, such as preferential ac...
It would be impossible for the Bat Conservation Trust, the national charity for bats in the UK, to deliver all that it does in terms of science and conservation outcomes without engaging volunteers and non-bat professionals as active participants in our work. Through consideration of four different projects/work areas, relating to human-bat interac...
When selecting feeding, hiding, or resting areas, animals face multiple decisions with different fitness consequences. To maximize efficiency, individuals can either collect personal information, or use information gathered and transmitted by other individuals (social information). Within group living species, organisms often specialize in either g...
Morphological, functional and behavioural adaptations of bats are among the most diverse within mammals. A strong association between bat skull morphology and feeding behaviour has been suggested previously. However, morphological variation related to other drivers of adaptation, in particular echolocation, remains understudied.
We assessed variati...
Photogrammetry (PH) is relatively cheap, easy to use, flexible and portable but its power and limitations have not been fully explored for studies of small animals. Here we assessed the accuracy of PH for the reconstruction of 3D digital models of bat skulls by evaluating its potential for evolutionary morphology studies at interspecific (19 specie...
El enfoque bioacustico ya hace tiempo resulta un método confiable para explorar la complejidad de la
biodiversidad. Esto es especialmente cier to en los quirópteros donde los sonidos son una parte fundamental
de su mundo de interacciones intra e interespecíficas, así como para la caza y la orientación. Además, la
diferenciación entre los sonidos es...
Tanto la fuerza de mordida como la dieta juegan papeles importantes en la variación morfológica del cráneo
de los murciélagos y en la diversificación interespecifica. Sin embargo, la influencia de la ecolocación sobre la
ecomorfología no está muy claro. Aquí se investigaron las relaciones funcionales entre el tamaño y la forma
del cráneo con la fue...
Bite force and dietary preference seem to play an important role on bat skull morphological variation and species diversification, however the contribution of echolocation to bats ecomorphology remains unclear. In this preliminary study we investigated the functional relationships between skull size and shape and both bite force and echolocation pa...
The mammalian skull is a complex three dimensional structure. Skull morphology of bats appears to be strongly correlated with feeding and behavioural ecology, but many questions about its micro and macroevolution remain unanswered. Linear measurements were traditionally employed to quantify skull morphology. However, recent advancements in digital...
MSc Thesis. BAT BIOACOUSTIC STUDIES IN BUENOS AIRES PROVINCE, ARGENTINA. Italian language.
Poster presentation in XIII EUROPEAN BAT RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM
September 01- 05, 2014 Šibenik, Croatia.
Poster presentation at 4 th International Berlin Bat Meeting: Movement Ecology of Bats, Berlin 2015.
