Research Catalog

Title

Ecology, evolution, and behaviour of bats : the proceedings of a symposium held by the Zoological Society of London and the Mammal Society : London, 26th and 27th November 1993 / edited by Paul A. Racey and Susan M. Swift.

Publication

Oxford : Published for the Zoological Society of London by Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.

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Additional Authors

• Racey, P. A.
• Swift, Susan M.
• Zoological Society of London.
• Mammal Society.

Description

xvii, 421 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Symposia of the Zoological Society of London ; no. 67

Uniform Title

Symposia of the Zoological Society of London ; no. 67.

Subject

• Bats > Congresses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Flying primates: crashed, or crashed through? / John D. Pettigrew -- Bat relationships and the origin of flight / Nancy B. Simmons -- The role of flying foxes (Pteropodidae) in oceanic island ecosystems of the Pacific / William E. Rainey, Elizabeth D. Pierson, Thomas Elmqvist and Paul A. Cox -- Feeding ecology of Philippine fruit bats: patterns of resource use and seed dispersal / Ruth C. B. Utzurrum -- A review of ecological interactions of fruit bats in Australian ecosystems / G. C. Richards -- The use of stable isotopes to study the diets of plant-visiting bats / Theodore H. Fleming -- The energetics of pteropodid bats / Brian K. McNab and Frank J. Bonaccorso -- Maternal investment and post-natal growth in bats / Thomas H. Kunz and April A. Stern -- Lactation in vespertilionid bats / Colin J. Wilde, Marian A. Kerr, Christopher H. Knight and Paul A. Racey -- Synchrony and seasonality of reproduction in tropical bats / Paul D. Heideman --
• The reproductive biology of Australian flying-foxes (genus Pteropus) / L. Martin, J. H. Kennedy, L. Little, H. C. Luckhoff, G. M. O'Brien, C. S. T. Pow, P. A. Towers, A. K. Waldon and D. Y. Wang -- Chiropteran nocturnality / John R. Speakman -- The comparative ecophysiology of water balance in microchiropteran bats / Peter I. Webb -- Dispersal and philopatry in colonial animals: the case of Miniopterus schreibersii / Jorge M. Palmeirim and Luisa Rodrigues -- The physiological ecology of hibernation in vespertilionid bats / Donald W. Thomas -- Does energy or calcium availability constrain reproduction by bats? / Robert M. R. Barclay -- Echolocation signal design, foraging habitats and guild structure in six Neotropical sheath-tailed bats (Emballonuridae) / Elisabeth K. V. Kalko -- Constraint and flexibility - bats at predators, bats as prey / M. Brock Fenton -- Street lamps and the feeding ecology of insectivorous bats / J. Rydell and P. A. Racey --
• Conservation biology of an endangered species: field studies of greater horseshoe bats / Gareth Jones, P. Laurent Duverge and Roger D. Ransome -- Abundance and habitat selection of foraging vespertilionid bats in Britain: a landscape-scale approach / Allyson L. Walsh, Stephen Harris and A. M. Hutson -- Information transfer in bats / Gerald S. Wilkinson -- The trophic niches of sympatric sibling Myotis myotis and M. blythii: do mouse-eared bats select prey? / Raphael Arlettaz and Nicolas Perrin -- Characterization of mitochondrial DNA variability within the microchiropteran genus Pipistrellus: approaches and applications / E. M. Barratt, M. W. Bruford, T. M. Burland, G. Jones, P. A. Racey and R. K. Wayne -- Genetic population structure of the noctule bat Nyctalus noctula: a molecular approach and first results / Frieder Mayer -- Mitochondrial diversity and heteroplasmy in two European populations of the large mouse-eared bat, Myotis myotis / Barbara Petri, Gerhard Neuweiler and Svante Paabo.

ISBN

0198549458 (Hbk)

LCCN

94049722

OCLC

• 31865555
• ocm31865555

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries