Quantitative evaluation of individual food intake by insectivorous vespertilionid bats (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) ...
(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Insectivorous bats provide important ecosystem services, especially by suppressing and controlling the insects' biomass. To empirically quantify the number of insects consumed by European vespertilionid bats per night, we estimated their ratio...
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ftdatacite:10.5281/zenodo.13463472 2024-09-15T18:27:24+00:00 Quantitative evaluation of individual food intake by insectivorous vespertilionid bats (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) ... Moiseienko, Marharyta Vlaschenko, Anton 2021 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13463472 https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.13463472 unknown Zenodo hash://md5/5c729f2cb457bbf7746c0bac3763da6c hash://sha256/c7c1d30cb73817b341e7a88835bde42acd8d1b54d8bff074ecf230e8bb0cc20d zotero://select/groups/5435545/items/PGP5KDF5 https://zotero.org/groups/5435545/items/PGP5KDF5 https://linker.bio/cut:hash://md5/fff81046f79520a587c12c41b44da78f!/b238242-240741 hash://md5/26f7ce5dd404e33c6570edd4ba250d20 hash://md5/5c729f2cb457bbf7746c0bac3763da6c hash://sha256/c7c1d30cb73817b341e7a88835bde42acd8d1b54d8bff074ecf230e8bb0cc20d zotero://select/groups/5435545/items/PGP5KDF5 https://zotero.org/groups/5435545/items/PGP5KDF5 https://linker.bio/cut:hash://md5/fff81046f79520a587c12c41b44da78f!/b238242-240741 hash://md5/26f7ce5dd404e33c6570edd4ba250d20 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1410543 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13463473 Biodiversity Mammalia Chiroptera Chordata Animalia bats bat JournalArticle ScholarlyArticle article-journal 2021 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1346347210.5281/zenodo.141054310.5281/zenodo.13463473 2024-09-02T10:15:45Z (Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Insectivorous bats provide important ecosystem services, especially by suppressing and controlling the insects' biomass. To empirically quantify the number of insects consumed by European vespertilionid bats per night, we estimated their ratio of dry mass of feces to mass of consumed insects. This study combines the results of feeding in captivity and the data obtained in field surveys; dry mass of feces was measured in both cases. In captivity, we analyzed the effect of species, age and sex of bats, species of insects consumed and the mass of food portion on the dry mass of feces. Using coefficients of the regression model, we estimated the number of insects consumed by free-ranging bats based on dry mass of their feces. According to our estimates, on average, one individual of one of the largest European bat species, Nyctalus noctula, consumes 2.2 g (ranging from 0.5 to 8.2 g) of insects per one feeding night, while the smallest European bats of genus ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Nyctalus noctula DataCite |
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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Insectivorous bats provide important ecosystem services, especially by suppressing and controlling the insects' biomass. To empirically quantify the number of insects consumed by European vespertilionid bats per night, we estimated their ratio of dry mass of feces to mass of consumed insects. This study combines the results of feeding in captivity and the data obtained in field surveys; dry mass of feces was measured in both cases. In captivity, we analyzed the effect of species, age and sex of bats, species of insects consumed and the mass of food portion on the dry mass of feces. Using coefficients of the regression model, we estimated the number of insects consumed by free-ranging bats based on dry mass of their feces. According to our estimates, on average, one individual of one of the largest European bat species, Nyctalus noctula, consumes 2.2 g (ranging from 0.5 to 8.2 g) of insects per one feeding night, while the smallest European bats of genus ... |
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Quantitative evaluation of individual food intake by insectivorous vespertilionid bats (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) ... |
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Quantitative evaluation of individual food intake by insectivorous vespertilionid bats (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) ... |
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Quantitative evaluation of individual food intake by insectivorous vespertilionid bats (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) ... |
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Quantitative evaluation of individual food intake by insectivorous vespertilionid bats (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) ... |
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Quantitative evaluation of individual food intake by insectivorous vespertilionid bats (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) ... |
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quantitative evaluation of individual food intake by insectivorous vespertilionid bats (chiroptera, vespertilionidae) ... |
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