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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Migratory decisions in birds are closely tied to environmental cues and fat stores, but it remains unknown if the same variables trigger bat migration. To learn more about the rare phenomenon of bat migration, we studied departure decisions of femal...
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ftdatacite:10.5281/zenodo.13463887 2024-09-30T14:40:35+00:00 Determinants of spring migration departure decision in a bat ... Dechmann, Dina K. N. Wikelski, M. Ellis-Soto, D. Safi, K. O'Mara, M. Teague 2017 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13463887 https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.13463887 unknown Zenodo hash://md5/861dd926d86cad1efed87f06d3c32c14 hash://sha256/b2695751968af6ba3c28c84dd1bae8714d5a7f76529d3bb625afeac643de089d zotero://select/groups/5435545/items/3DTHQS7W https://zotero.org/groups/5435545/items/3DTHQS7W https://linker.bio/cut:hash://md5/17fc1f2c4e5393f17deb207f411be6c3!/b83896-86366 hash://md5/26f7ce5dd404e33c6570edd4ba250d20 hash://md5/861dd926d86cad1efed87f06d3c32c14 hash://sha256/b2695751968af6ba3c28c84dd1bae8714d5a7f76529d3bb625afeac643de089d zotero://select/groups/5435545/items/3DTHQS7W https://zotero.org/groups/5435545/items/3DTHQS7W https://linker.bio/cut:hash://md5/17fc1f2c4e5393f17deb207f411be6c3!/b83896-86366 hash://md5/26f7ce5dd404e33c6570edd4ba250d20 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1410543 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13463886 Biodiversity Mammalia Chiroptera Chordata Animalia bats bat JournalArticle ScholarlyArticle article-journal 2017 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1346388710.5281/zenodo.141054310.5281/zenodo.13463886 2024-09-02T10:15:45Z (Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Migratory decisions in birds are closely tied to environmental cues and fat stores, but it remains unknown if the same variables trigger bat migration. To learn more about the rare phenomenon of bat migration, we studied departure decisions of female common noctules ( Nyctalus noctula ) in southern Germany. We did not find the fattening period that modulates departure decisions in birds. Female noctules departed after a regular evening foraging session, uniformly heading northeast. As the day of year increased, migratory decisions were based on the interactions among wind speed, wind direction and air pressure. As the migration season progressed, bats were likely to migrate on nights with higher air pressure and faster tail winds in the direction of travel, and also show high probability of migration on low-pressure nights with slow head winds. Common noctules thus monitor complex environmental conditions to find the optimal migration night. ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Nyctalus noctula DataCite |
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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Migratory decisions in birds are closely tied to environmental cues and fat stores, but it remains unknown if the same variables trigger bat migration. To learn more about the rare phenomenon of bat migration, we studied departure decisions of female common noctules ( Nyctalus noctula ) in southern Germany. We did not find the fattening period that modulates departure decisions in birds. Female noctules departed after a regular evening foraging session, uniformly heading northeast. As the day of year increased, migratory decisions were based on the interactions among wind speed, wind direction and air pressure. As the migration season progressed, bats were likely to migrate on nights with higher air pressure and faster tail winds in the direction of travel, and also show high probability of migration on low-pressure nights with slow head winds. Common noctules thus monitor complex environmental conditions to find the optimal migration night. ... |
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