Year-round monitoring of bat records in an urban area:Kharkiv (NE Ukraine), 2013, as a case study ...

• Main Authors: Kravchenko, Kseniia, Vlaschenko, Anton, Prylutska, Alona, Rodenko, Olena, Hukov, Vitalii, Shuvaev, Volodymyr
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Mammalia; Chiroptera; Chordata; Animalia; bats; bat; Nyctalus noctula; Vespertilio murinus
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13446348; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.13446348

(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) This study presents information about the year-round phenology of bats of temperate zones in a city area for the first time. In total, 967 individuals of 5 bat species (Nyctalus noctula [87.5%], Eptesicus serotinus [10.6%], Pipistrellus kuhlii [0.8%], Vespertilio murinus [0.9%], and Plecotus auritus [0.1%]) were recorded during 2013 in Kharkiv. The population structures of temperate bat species are complex; segregation of sex and age groups varies spatially and seasonally. Most of the bats (88%) were collected during the hibernation period (January–March and November–December) and the autumn invasion (August–mid-September). The breeding period saw a lower number of bats collected, making up 0.5% of records (May–July). The degree of tolerance to urbanization is species-specific. The bats were found indoors (68.6%), between window frames (26.6%), outdoors (2.8%), in basements (1.05%), and on balconies (0.95%). Bats of temperate latitudes inhabit big cities in ...