The project is intended to compare aspects of roosting ecology and habitat preferences of selected model species of bats in the Mediterrraenan region and Central Europe. A lithophilous form, Hypsugo savii, recently expanding to the Central Europe, is considered as the major model species. The study is essentially based on detailed field investigations icnluding search for roosts and foraging habitats combined with instrumental techniques such as automated ultrasound recording, radio-tracking and recording microclimatic currents of the occupied roosts. Comparisons of the habitat preferences, thermal qualities of particular roosts and foraging grounds between the study areas in the Mediterranean and in the recently colonized lowland areas and urban habitats in southern Moravia should provide data for correlative analyses of the instrincic factors included in the respective shift in habitat preferences and further behavioral and ecological specificities of the species presumed to contribute to current synanthropisation and range expancion in the model species. The project will be further supplemented by comparison of the genetic structures of the respective model populations and comparisons with the other species of the similar chorologic complex (Pipistrellus kuhlii, Myotis blythii etc.).
Preliminary scope of work in English
The project is intended to compare aspects of roosting ecology and habitat preferences of selected model species of bats in the Mediterrraenan region and Central Europe. A lithophilous form, Hypsugo savii, recently expanding to the Central Europe, is considered as the major model species. The study is essentially based on detailed field investigations icnluding search for roosts and foraging habitats combined with instrumental techniques such as automated ultrasound recording, radio-tracking and recording microclimatic currents of the occupied roosts. Comparisons of the habitat preferences, thermal qualities of particular roosts and foraging grounds between the study areas in the Mediterranean and in the recently colonized lowland areas and urban habitats in southern Moravia should provide data for correlative analyses of the instrincic factors included in the respective shift in habitat preferences and further behavioral and ecological specificities of the species presumed to contribute to current synanthropisation and range expancion in the model species. The project will be further supplemented by comparison of the genetic structures of the respective model populations and comparisons with the other species of the similar chorologic complex (Pipistrellus kuhlii, Myotis blythii etc.).
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