Diet of the insectivorous bat Pipistrellus nathusii during autumn migration and summer residence ...

(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Migration is widespread among vertebrates, yet bat migration has received little attention and only in the recent decades has a better understanding of it been gained. Migration can cause significant changes in behaviour and physiology, due to incre...

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Main Authors: Krüger, Frauke, Clare, Elizabeth L., Symondson, William O. C., Keišs, Oskars, Pētersons, Gunārs
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Zenodo 2014
Subjects:
bat
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13536552
https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.13536552
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Summary:(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Migration is widespread among vertebrates, yet bat migration has received little attention and only in the recent decades has a better understanding of it been gained. Migration can cause significant changes in behaviour and physiology, due to increasing energy demands and aerodynamic constraints. Dietary shifts, for example, have been shown to occur in birds before onset of migration. For bats, it is not known if a change in diet occurs during migration, although breeding season-related dietary preference has been documented. It is known that a diet rich in fats and the accumulation of fat deposits do increase the flight range of migratory bats. Some bat species can be regarded as long-distance migrants, covering up to 2000 km between summer and winter roosting areas. Pipistrellus nathusii (Vespertilionidae), a European long-distant migrant, travels each year along the Baltic Sea from north-eastern Europe to hibernate in central and southern Europe. This ...