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First Records of Nyctalus Noctula Social Calls in Portugal
Vespertilio 17: 37–44, 2014 ISSN 1213-6123 First records of Nyctalus noctula social calls in Portugal Paulo BARROS, Luís BRAZ, Hélia Marisa vale-Gonçalves & João Alexandre Cabral Laboratory of Applied Ecology, Centre for the Research and Technology of Agro-Environmental and Biological Sciences (CITAB), University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD), Quinta de Prados 5000-801, Vila Real, Portugal; [email protected] Abstract. The common noctule (Nyctalus noctula) is a large and fast flying Palaearctic migratory bat. The range of the species distribution extends in longitude from the Iberian Peninsula to Japan and in latitude from North Africa to the southern part of the Scandinavian countries. However, in the southern part of its distribution range, most of the potential maternity colonies are unknown or found only spo- radically. This note presents the first records of N. noctula social calls in Portugal. In fact, two types of N. noctula socials calls (C1 and D1) were recorded and identified at a site in the Sabor river valley in northern Portugal, which are usually associated with mating roosts. Therefore, these new data may contribute to improve and update the knowledge of the location of potential new mating, swarming and hibernation sites, as well as of the mating season length and behavioural patterns of this migratory species throughout its European range. Nyctalus noctula, social calls, bat swarming, Portugal Introduction The common noctule, Nyctalus noctula (Schreber, 1774), is a large and fast flying Palaearctic bat, with broad rounded ears, rufous-brown fur, which is slightly darker on the dorsum, and has long narrow wings covered with short hair on the underside of the membrane close to the body (Dietz et al. -
Changing Pattern of Spatio-Social Interrelationship of Hunting Community in Upper Dibang Valley
Changing Pattern of Spatio-Social Interrelationship of Hunting Community in Upper Dibang Valley, Arunachal Pradesh A Dissertation submitted To Sikkim University In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Philosophy By MOHAN SHARMA Department of Geography School of Human Sciences February 2020 Date: 07/02/2020 DECLARATION I, Mohan Sharma, hereby declare that the research work embodied in the Dissertation titled “Changing Pattern of Spatio-Social Interrelationship of Hunting Community in Upper Dibang Valley, Arunachal Pradesh” submitted to Sikkim University for the award of the Degree of Master of Philosophy, is my original work. The thesis has not been submitted for any other degree of this University or any other University. (Mohan Sharma) Roll Number: 18MPGP01 Regd. No.: 18MPhil/GOG/01 Name of the Department: Geography Name of the School: Human Sciences Date: 07/02/2020 CERTIFICATE This is to certify that the dissertation titled “Changing Pattern of Spatio-Social Interrelationship of Hunting Community in Upper Dibang Valley, Arunachal Pradesh” submitted to Sikkim University for the partial fulfilment of the degree of Master of Philosophy in the Department of Geography, embodies the result of bonafide research work carried out by Mr. Mohan Sharma under our guidance and supervision. No part of the dissertation has been submitted for any other degree, diploma, associateship and fellowship. All the assistance and help received during the course of the investigation have been duly acknowledged by him. We recommend -
Application for a Licence Bats ‐ Method Statement
36 Chichester Lane Hampton Magna Warwick Warwickshire CV35 8TG Tel: Mob: Email: [email protected] APPLICATION FOR A LICENCE BATS ‐ METHOD STATEMENT Document 1 – Background and Supporting Information Date: January 2013 Client: Site: Ridgeway Ecology has prepared this report in accordance with the instructions of their client, , for their sole and specific use. Any other persons who use any information contained herein do so at their own risk. © Ridgeway Ecology 2013 Ridgeway Ecology 1 Contents A Executive Summary ....................................................................................................................................... 4 B Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 5 B.1 Background to activity/development ................................................................................................... 5 B.2 Full details of proposed works on site that are to be covered by the licence ...................................... 6 C Survey and site assessment .......................................................................................................................... 6 C.1 Pre‐existing information on species at survey site................................................................................ 6 C.2 Status of species (at the local, county and regional levels)................................................................... 6 C.3 Objectives of the survey .......................................................................................................................... -
Controlled Animals
Environment and Sustainable Resource Development Fish and Wildlife Policy Division Controlled Animals Wildlife Regulation, Schedule 5, Part 1-4: Controlled Animals Subject to the Wildlife Act, a person must not be in possession of a wildlife or controlled animal unless authorized by a permit to do so, the animal was lawfully acquired, was lawfully exported from a jurisdiction outside of Alberta and was lawfully imported into Alberta. NOTES: 1 Animals listed in this Schedule, as a general rule, are described in the left hand column by reference to common or descriptive names and in the right hand column by reference to scientific names. But, in the event of any conflict as to the kind of animals that are listed, a scientific name in the right hand column prevails over the corresponding common or descriptive name in the left hand column. 2 Also included in this Schedule is any animal that is the hybrid offspring resulting from the crossing, whether before or after the commencement of this Schedule, of 2 animals at least one of which is or was an animal of a kind that is a controlled animal by virtue of this Schedule. 3 This Schedule excludes all wildlife animals, and therefore if a wildlife animal would, but for this Note, be included in this Schedule, it is hereby excluded from being a controlled animal. Part 1 Mammals (Class Mammalia) 1. AMERICAN OPOSSUMS (Family Didelphidae) Virginia Opossum Didelphis virginiana 2. SHREWS (Family Soricidae) Long-tailed Shrews Genus Sorex Arboreal Brown-toothed Shrew Episoriculus macrurus North American Least Shrew Cryptotis parva Old World Water Shrews Genus Neomys Ussuri White-toothed Shrew Crocidura lasiura Greater White-toothed Shrew Crocidura russula Siberian Shrew Crocidura sibirica Piebald Shrew Diplomesodon pulchellum 3. -
Eared Bat (Corynorhinus Townsendii) in West Texas
MORPHOLOGICAL AND MOLECULAR VARIATION IN TOWNSEND’S BIG- EARED BAT (CORYNORHINUS TOWNSENDII) IN WEST TEXAS A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Angelo State University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF SCIENCE by TERESITA MARIE TIPPS May 2012 Major: Biology MORPHOLOGICAL AND MOLECULAR VARIATION IN TOWNSEND’S BIG- EARED BAT (CORYNORHINUS TOWNSENDII) IN WEST TEXAS by TERESITA MARIE TIPPS APPROVED: Loren K. Ammerman Robert C. Dowler Nicholas J. Negovetich Tom Bankston April 10, 2012 APPROVED: Dr. Brian May Dean of the College of Graduate Studies ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to begin by thanking my advisor Dr. Loren Ammerman, whose countless hours of patience and guidance led me to be the researcher I am today. She first recruited me to work in the molecular lab in 2008, and had it not been for this, I would not be working in the field that I am today. She inspires me to be the best I can be and gives me the confidence to know that I can accomplish anything I put my mind to. Without her advice and help throughout this thesis process, I probably would have gone crazy! I look forward to any future endeavors in which she can be involved. Secondly, I would like to thank all of my lab mates, Candace Frerich, Sarah Bartlett, Pablo Rodriguez-Pacheco, and Wes Brashear. Without their constant support and availability to bounce my ideas off of, I would not have been able to finish this project. I especially appreciate all of the help Dana Lee gave me as an undergraduate and a graduate, even though she did not live in San Angelo! Dana helped me understand various lab techniques and helped me troubleshoot several problems with PCR and sequencing that had me puzzled. -
Corynorhinus Townsendii): a Technical Conservation Assessment
Townsend’s Big-eared Bat (Corynorhinus townsendii): A Technical Conservation Assessment Prepared for the USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Region, Species Conservation Project October 25, 2006 Jeffery C. Gruver1 and Douglas A. Keinath2 with life cycle model by Dave McDonald3 and Takeshi Ise3 1Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2Wyoming Natural Diversity Database, Old Biochemistry Bldg, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82070 3Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, P.O. Box 3166, Laramie, WY 82071 Peer Review Administered by Society for Conservation Biology Gruver, J.C. and D.A. Keinath (2006, October 25). Townsend’s Big-eared Bat (Corynorhinus townsendii): a technical conservation assessment. [Online]. USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Region. Available: http:// www.fs.fed.us/r2/projects/scp/assessments/townsendsbigearedbat.pdf [date of access]. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors would like to acknowledge the modeling expertise of Dr. Dave McDonald and Takeshi Ise, who constructed the life-cycle analysis. Additional thanks are extended to the staff of the Wyoming Natural Diversity Database for technical assistance with GIS and general support. Finally, we extend sincere thanks to Gary Patton for his editorial guidance and patience. AUTHORS’ BIOGRAPHIES Jeff Gruver, formerly with the Wyoming Natural Diversity Database, is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Biological Sciences program at the University of Calgary where he is investigating the physiological ecology of bats in northern arid climates. He has been involved in bat research for over 8 years in the Pacific Northwest, the Rocky Mountains, and the Badlands of southern Alberta. He earned a B.S. in Economics (1993) from Penn State University and an M.S. -
Micromys Minutus)
Acta Theriol (2013) 58:101–104 DOI 10.1007/s13364-012-0102-0 SHORT COMMUNICATION The origin of Swedish and Norwegian populations of the Eurasian harvest mouse (Micromys minutus) Lars Råberg & Jon Loman & Olof Hellgren & Jeroen van der Kooij & Kjell Isaksen & Roar Solheim Received: 7 May 2012 /Accepted: 17 September 2012 /Published online: 29 September 2012 # Mammal Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Białowieża, Poland 2012 Abstract The harvest mouse (Micromys minutus) occurs the Mediterranean, from France to Russia and northwards throughout most of continental Europe. There are also two to central Finland (Mitchell-Jones et al. 1999). Recently, isolated and recently discovered populations on the it has also been found to occur in Sweden and Norway. Scandinavian peninsula, in Sweden and Norway. Here, we In 1985, an isolated population was discovered in the investigate the origin of these populations through analyses province of Dalsland in western Sweden (Loman 1986), of mitochondrial DNA. We found that the two populations and during the last decade, this population has been on the Scandinavian peninsula have different mtDNA found to extend into the surrounding provinces as well haplotypes. A comparison of our haplotypes to published as into Norway. The known distribution in Norway is sequences from most of Europe showed that all Swedish and limited to a relatively small area close to the Swedish Norwegian haplotypes are most closely related to the border, in Eidskog, Hedmark (van der Kooij et al. 2001; haplotypes in harvest mice from Denmark. Hence, the two van der Kooij et al., unpublished data). In 2007, another populations seem to represent independent colonisations but population was discovered in the province of Skåne in originate from the same geographical area. -
7 Meeting of the Parties
Inf.EUROBATS.MoP7.45 7th Meeting of the Parties Brussels, Belgium, 15 – 17 September 2014 Report on Autecological Studies for Priority Species Convenor: Stéphane Aulagnier In accordance with Resolution 4.12, the current work being carried out on autecological studies of the Priority List of species (Rhinolophus euryale, Myotis capaccinii and Miniopterus schreibersii) should be updated by the Advisory Committee and should be made public. References of papers and reports dealing with autecological studies Rhinolophus euryale Barataud M., Jemin J., Grugier Y. & Mazaud S., 2009. Étude sur les territoires de chasse du Rhinolophe euryale, Rhinolophus euryale, en Corrèze, site Natura 2000 des Abîmes de la Fage. Le Naturaliste. Vendéen, 9 : 43-55. The cave of la Fage (Noailles, Département of Corrèze) is a major site for the Mediterranean horseshoe bat, Rhinolophus euryale Blasius 1853. However, contrary to the tendency to increase noted over the last 20 years in various other birth sites in France, numbers at la Fage have shown no change. One of the suspected causes links this to the presence of the A20 motorway, less than a kilometre away, where corpses have been collected. This article presents the results of a radio-tracking study of the space occupied by the colony, during the summers of 2006 and 2007. Voigt C.C., Schuller B.M., Greif S. & Siemers B.M., 2010. Perch-hunting in insectivorous Rhinolophus bats is related to the high energy costs of manoeuvring in flight. Journal of Comparative Physiology Biochemical Systemic and Environmental Physiology, 180(7): 1079-1088 Foraging behaviour of bats is supposedly largely influenced by the high costs of flapping flight. -
Intra- and Interspecific Competition in Western Barbastelle Bats
Intra- and interspecific competition in western barbastelle bats (Bbastell bastellus, SCHREBER 1774): Niche differentiation in a specialised bat species, revealed via radio-tracking. Dissertation zur Erlangung des Grades "Doktor der Naturwissenschaften" am Fachbereich Biologie der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität in Mainz Jessica Hillen geb. am 09.01.1981 in Zell (Mosel) Mainz, 2011 Tag der mündlichen Prüfung: 16.12.2011 Western barbastelle bats in their tree roost. Background: View of the brook valley 'Ahringsbachtal'. Contents Contents. Abstract..............................................................................................................................................5 General introduction. ..........................................................................................................................7 Chapter I. Spatial organisation and foraging site fidelity of a population of female western barbastelle bats...................................................................................................................................................12 Abstract....................................................................................................................................13 1. Introduction. ....................................................................................................................14 2. Materials and methods......................................................................................................16 3. Results. ............................................................................................................................21 -
About the Book the Format Acknowledgments
About the Book For more than ten years I have been working on a book on bryophyte ecology and was joined by Heinjo During, who has been very helpful in critiquing multiple versions of the chapters. But as the book progressed, the field of bryophyte ecology progressed faster. No chapter ever seemed to stay finished, hence the decision to publish online. Furthermore, rather than being a textbook, it is evolving into an encyclopedia that would be at least three volumes. Having reached the age when I could retire whenever I wanted to, I no longer needed be so concerned with the publish or perish paradigm. In keeping with the sharing nature of bryologists, and the need to educate the non-bryologists about the nature and role of bryophytes in the ecosystem, it seemed my personal goals could best be accomplished by publishing online. This has several advantages for me. I can choose the format I want, I can include lots of color images, and I can post chapters or parts of chapters as I complete them and update later if I find it important. Throughout the book I have posed questions. I have even attempt to offer hypotheses for many of these. It is my hope that these questions and hypotheses will inspire students of all ages to attempt to answer these. Some are simple and could even be done by elementary school children. Others are suitable for undergraduate projects. And some will take lifelong work or a large team of researchers around the world. Have fun with them! The Format The decision to publish Bryophyte Ecology as an ebook occurred after I had a publisher, and I am sure I have not thought of all the complexities of publishing as I complete things, rather than in the order of the planned organization. -
3. Family Vespertilionidae
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica Vol. 32, No. 3-4 pp. 207-325; pl. 11-12 Warszawa, 1987 BRONISEAW W. WOLOSZYN PLIOCENE AND PLEISTOCENE BATS OF POLAND WOEOSZYN, B. W. Pliocene and Pleistocene bats of Poland. Acta Palaeont. Polonica, 32, 3-4, 207-325, 194W. The fwil remains of Pliocene and Pleistocene bats from central and southern Poland have been examined, belonging to three families: Rhinolophidae, Miniopte- ridae and Vespertilionidae. In the material examined, 15 species of bats have been found, six of which being new: Rhlnolophus kowalskif Topal, R. wenzensis sp. n., R. cf. macrorhtnus Topal, R. hanakt sp. n. R. cf., Variabilis Topal, R. neglectus Heller, Rhtnolophus sp. (mehelyil) (Rhinolophjdae); Miniopterus approximatus sp. n. (Miniopteridae); Eptesicus kowalskii sp. n., E. mossoczyi sp. n., E. cf. sero- tinus (Schreber), E. nilssont (Keyserling et Blasius), Barbastella cf. schadlert Wettstein-Westersheim, Plecotus rabederi sp. n., P. cf. abeli Wettstein-Westers- heim (Vespertilionidae). The material comes from then localities. The Pliocene faunas showed a high share of thermophilous species of the families Rhinolophidae and Miniopteridae. The deterioration of the climate towards the close of the Pliocene brought about a decfine in thermophilous forms. The faunas of the middle Pleistocene show a conlplete absence of thermophilous species, while the share of forest and boreal species increaser. It has been shown that from the early Pliocene onwards, changes which appear to be evolutionary trends have continued to take place in skull structure. Some of these trends were analysed, and they were found to consist mainly in the reduction of the splanchnocranium: shortening of the palate and of the premolar toothrows (both in the maxilla and the mandible). -
Long-Term Changes in the Numbers of the Barbastelle Barbastella Barbastellus in Poland
Folia Zool. – 54 (4): 351–358 (2005) Long-term changes in the numbers of the barbastelle Barbastella barbastellus in Poland Grzegorz LESIŃSKI1, Elżbieta FUSZARA2, Maciej FUSZARA2, Mirosław JURCZYSZYN3 and Zbigniew URBAŃCZYK4 1 Warsaw Agriculture University, Faculty of Human Nutrition and Consumer Science, 02-787 Warsaw, Poland; e-mail: [email protected] 2 Centre for Ecological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Dziekanów Leśny, 05-092 Łomianki, Poland; e-mail (Elżbieta Fuszara): [email protected]; e-mail (Maciej Fuszara): maciek_fuszara@poczta. onet.pl 3 Department of Systematic Zoology, A. Mickiewicz University, Fredry 10, 61-701 Poznań, Poland; e-mail: [email protected] 4 Os. Sobieskiego 26D/142, 60-241 Poznań, Poland; e-mail: [email protected] Received 29 September 2004; Accepted 24 October 2005 A b s t r a c t . In order to identify population trends in Barbastella barbastellus in Poland we summarised results of long-term winter bat counts conducted between 1985 and 2004 in seven of the most important hibernacula of the species. The results show an upward trend in four of the sites while in the remaining four no trend was found. The numbers of barbastelles in Poland seem stable or even increasing. In Central Europe the species is not threatened as seriously as it is in Western Europe. Key words: Barbastella barbastellus, population trends, hibernation, Poland Introduction The barbastelle Barbastella barbastellus is included in the IUCN European endangered spe- cies list in the VU category (H u t s o n et al. 2001). It is also listed in the II and IV annexes of the European Council Directive on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora.