Differences in foraging behaviour between Pipistrellus pipistrellus (Schreber, 1774) and Pipistrellus pygmaeus (Leach, 1825)

Journal of Zoology

Volumn 268, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 55-62

  Davidson Watts, I ^a,b   Jones, G ^c  

^a Environmental Support Team   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Conservation; Foraging; Pipistrellus; Radio tracking

Indexed keywords

BAT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; RADIOTELEMETRY;

PIPISTRELLUS; PIPISTRELLUS PIPISTRELLUS; PIPISTRELLUS PYGMAEUS;

EID: 33645458018     PISSN: 09528369     EISSN: 14697998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.2005.00016.x     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Aldridge H.D.J.N. Brigham R.M. 1988 Load carrying and manoeuvrability in an insectivorous bat a test of the 5%'rule' of radio-telemetry. J. Mammal. 69 379 382.
2. Anon 1995 Biodiversity: the UK steering group report 1: meeting the Rio challenge. 2: action plans. London HMSO.
3. Arlettaz R. 1996 Feeding behaviour and foraging strategy of free-living mouse-eared bats, Myotis myotis and Myotis blythii. Anim. Behav. 51 1 11.
4. Avery M.I. 1985 Factors affecting the emergence of pipistrelle bats. J. Zool. (Lond.) 209 293 296.
5. Barlow K.E. 1997 The diets of two phonic types of the bat Pipistrellus pipistrellus in Britain. J. Zool. (Lond.) 243 597 609.
6. Barlow K.E. Jones G. 1999 Roosts, echolocation calls and wing morphology of two phonic types of Pipistrellus pipistrellus. Z. Säugetierkunde 64 257 268.
7. Barratt E.M. Bruford M.W. Burland T.M. Jones G. Racey P.A. Wayne R.K. 1995 Characterisation of mitochondrial DNA variability within the microchiropteran genus Pipistrellus approaches and applications. Symp. Zool. Soc. Lond. 67 377 386.
8. Barratt E.M. Deaville R. Bruford M.W. Burland T.M. Jones G. Racey P.A. Wayne R.K. 1997 DNA answers the call of pipistrelle bat species. Nature 387 138 139.
9. Bontadina F. Schofield H. Naef-Daenzer B. 2002 Radio-tracking reveals that lesser horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus hipposideros) forage in woodland. J. Zool. (Lond.) 258 281 290.
10. Bullock D.J. Combes B.A. Eales L.A. 1987 Analysis of the timing and pattern of emergence of the pipistrelle bat (Pipistrellus pipistrellus). J. Zool. (Lond.) 211 267 274.
11. Catto C.M.C. Hutson A.M. 1996 Foraging behaviour and habitat use of the serotine bats (Eptesicus serotinus) in southern England. J. Zool. (Lond.) 238 623 633.
12. Downs N.C. Beaton V. Guest J. Polanski J. Robinson S.L. Racey P.A. 2003 The effects of illuminating the roost entrance on the emergence behaviour of Pipistrellus pygmaeus. Biol. Conserv. 111 247 252.
13. Duvergé P.L. 1996 Foraging activity, habitat use, development of juveniles and diet of the greater horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum) in southwest England. PhD thesis, University of Bristol.
14. Duvergé P.L. Jones G. 1994 Greater horseshoe bats activity, foraging behaviour and habitat use. Br. Wildlife 6 66 77.
15. Duvergé P.L. Jones G. 2003 Use of farmland habitats by greater horseshoe bats. In Farming and mammals. Conservation and conflict. Occasional publication of the Linnean Society, Vol. 4 64 1. Tattersall F. Manley W. (Eds). Otley Westbury Publishing.
16. Duvergé P.L. Jones G. Rydell J. Ransome R. 2000 Functional significance of emergence times in bats. Ecogr. Copenhagen 23 32 40.
17. Feyerabend F. Simon M. 2000 Use of roosts and roost switching in a summer colony of 45 kHz phonic type pipistrelle bats (Pipistrellus pipistrellus). Myotis 38 51 59.
18. Gerell-Lundberg K. Gerell R. 1994 The mating behaviour of the pipistrelle and Nathusius pipistrelle - a comparison. Folia Zool. 43 315 324.
19. Hutson A.M. 1993 Action plan for the conservation of bats in the United Kingdom. London The Bat Conservation Trust.
20. ICZN 2003 Opinion 2028 (Case 3073). Vespertilio pipistrellus Schreber, 1774 and V. pygmaeus Leach, 1825 (currently Pipistrellus pipistrellus and P. pygmaeus; Mammalia, Chiroptera) neotypes designated. Bull. Zool. Nom. 60 85 87.
21. Jenkins E.V. Laine T. Morgan S.E. Cole K.R. Speakman J.R. 1998 Roost selection in the pipistrelle bat, Pipistrellus pipistrellus, in northeast Scotland. Anim. Behav. 56 909 917.
22. Jones G. Barratt E.M. 1999 Vespertilio pipistrellus Schreber, 1774 and V. pygmaeus Leach, 1825 (currently Pipistrellus pipistrellus and P. pygmaeus; Mammalia, Chiroptera): proposed designation of neotypes. Bull. Zool. Nom. 56 182 186.
23. Jones G. Morton M. 1992 Radio-tracking studies and habitat use by greater horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum). In Wildlife telemetry. Remote monitoring and tracking of animals 521 537. Priede I.G. Swift S.M. (Eds). Chichester Ellis Horwood.
24. Jones G. van Parijs S.M. 1993 Bimodal echocation in pipistrelle bats are cryptic species present? Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 251 119 125.
25. Kronwitter F. 1988 Population structure, habitat use and activity patterns of the noctule bat (Nyctalus noctula) revealed by radio-tracking. Myotis 26 23 85.
26. Kurta A. Bell G.P. Nagy K.A. Kunz T.H. 1989 Energetics of pregnancy and lactation in free ranging little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus). Physiol. Zool. 68 804 818.
27. Lindman H.R. 1974 Analysis of variance in complex experimental designs. San Francisco W.R. Freeman and Co.
28. Longley M. 2003 Greater horseshoe bat project 1998-2003. English Nature Research Reports Number 532. Peterborough English Nature.
29. Maier C. 1992 Activity patterns of pipistrelle bats (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) in Oxfordshire. J. Zool. (Lond.) 228 69 80.
30. Oakeley S.F. Jones G. 1998 Habitat around maternity roosts of the 55kHz phonic type of pipistrelle bats (Pipistrellus pipistrellus). J. Zool. (Lond.) 245 222 228.
31. Park K.J. Altringham J.D. Jones G. 1996 Assortative roosting in two phonic types of Pipistrellus pipistrellus during the mating season. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 263 1495 1499.
32. Racey P.A. 1988 Reproductive assessment in bats. In Ecological and behavioural methods for the study of bats 31 47. Kunz T.H. (Ed.). Washington, DC Smithsonian Institution Press.
33. Racey P.A. Entwistle A.C. 2003 Conservation ecology of bats. In Bat ecology 680 745. Kunz T.H. Fenton M.B. (Eds). Chicago The University of Chicago Press.
34. Racey P.A. Swift S.M. 1985 Feeding ecology of Pipistrellus pipistrellus during pregnancy and lactation; I. Foraging behaviour. J. Anim. Ecol. 54 205 215.
35. Roverud R.C. Chappell M.A. 1991 Energetic and thermoregulatory aspects of clustering behaviour in the Neotropical bat Notilio albiventris. Physiol. Zool. 64 1527 1541.
36. Russ J.M. Montgomery W.I. 2002 Habitat associations of bats in Northern Ireland implications for conservation. Biol. Conserv. 108 48 58.
37. Russo D. Jones G. Migliozzi A. 2002 Habitat selection by the Mediterranean horseshoe bat, Rhinolophus euryale in a rural area of southern Italy and implications for conservation. Biol. Conserv. 107 71 81.
38. Sattler T. 2003 Ecological factors affecting the distribution of the sibling species Pipistrellus pygmaeus and Pipistrellus pipistrellus in Switzerland. Diploma thesis, University of Bern.
39. Speakman J.R. Racey P.A. 1987 The energetics of pregnancy and lactation in brown long-eared bats Plecotus auritus. In Recent advances in the study of bats 367 394. Fenton M.B. Racey P.A. Rayner J.M.V. (Eds). Cambridge Cambridge University Press.
40. Stebbings R.E. 1988 Conservation of European bats. London Christopher Helm.
41. Swift S.M. 1980 Activity patterns of pipistrelle bats (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) in northeast Scotland. J. Zool. (Lond.) 190 285 295.
42. Vaughan N. Jones G. Harris S. 1997 Habitat use by bats (Chiroptera) assessed by means of a broad-band acoustic method. J. Appl. Ecol. 34 716 730.
43. Walsh A.L. Harris S. Hutson A.M. 1995 Abundance and habitat selection of foraging vespertilionid bats in Britain a landscape-scale approach. Symp. Zool. Soc. Lond. 67 325 344.
44. White G.C. Garrott R.A. 1990 Analysis of wildlife radio-tracking data. London Academic Press.
45. Wilkinson G.S. Bradbury J.W. 1988 Radiotelemetry techniques and analysis. In Ecological and behavioural methods for the study of bats 105 124. Kunz T.H. (Ed.). Washington, DC Smithsonian Institution Press.