Bat species richness and activity over an elevation gradient in Mediterranean shrublands of Crete;Ricchezza specifica e attività dei chirotteri lungo un gradiente altitudinale nella macchia mediterranea di Creta

Hystrix

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 43-56

  Georgiakakis, Panagiotis ^a   Vasilakopoulos, Paraskevas ^b   Mylonas, Moysis ^a   Russo, Danilo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b University of Greece   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Activity; Bats; Elevation; Shrublands; Species richness

Indexed keywords

HYPSUGO SAVII; PIPISTRELLUS KUHLI; RHINOLOPHUS HIPPOSIDEROS; TADARIDA TENIOTIS;

EID: 77957590364     PISSN: 03941914     EISSN: 18255272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Altringham J.D. 1996. Bats. Biology and behaviour. Oxford University Press. ix + 264 pp.
2. Barataud M. 2004. Fréquentation des paysages sud-alpins par des chiroptères en activité de chasse. Le Rhinolophe, 17: 11-22.
3. Benda P., Georgiakakis P., Dietz C., Hanák V., Galanaki K., Markantonatou V., Chudárková A. and Hulva P. 2009. Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. Part 7. The bat fauna of Crete, Greece. Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem., 72: 105-190.
4. Blondel J. and Aronson J. 1999. Biology and wildlife of the Mediterranean region. Oxford Univ. Press. xx + 328 pp.
5. Brown J.H. 2001. Mammals on mountainsides: elevational patterns of diversity. Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr., 10: 101-109.
6. Brown J.H. and Gibson, A.C. 1983 Biogeography. Mosby, St. Louis, Missouri. 643 pp.
7. Carmel W. and Safriel U. 1998. Habitat use by bats in a Mediterranean ecosystem in Israel-conservation implications. Biol. Conserv., 84(3): 245-250.
8. Cerveny J. 1998. Bat communities of mountain peat bogs in the Sumava Mts. (southwestern Bohemia, Czech Republic). Lynx (Prague), 29: 11-21.
9. Davy C.M., Russo D. and Fenton M.B. 2007. Use of native woodlands and traditional olive groves by foraging bats on a Mediterranean island: consequences for conservation. J. Zool. Lond., 273(4): 397-405.
10. Fassoulas C., Paragamian K. and Iliopoulos G. 2007. Identification and assessment of Cretan geotopes. Bull. Geol. Soc. Greece., XXXVII: 1780-1795.
11. Grindal S.D., Morissette J.L. and Brigham R.M. 1999. Concentration of bat activity in riparian habitats over an elevational gradient. Can. J. Zool., 77: 972-977.
12. Holzhaider J. and Zahn A. 2001. Bats in the Bavarian Alps: species composition and utilization of higher altitudes in summer. Mamm. Biol., 66: 144-154.
13. Kanǔch P. and Krištín A. 2006. Altitudinal distribution of bats in the Polana Mts area (Central Slovakia). Biologia, 61: 605-610.
14. Lomolino M.V. 2001. Elevational gradients of species-density: historical and prospective views. Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr., 10: 3-13.
15. McCain C.M. 2005. Could temperature and water availability drive elevational species richness patterns? A global case study for bats. Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr., 16: 1-13.
16. McCain C.M. 2007. Area and mammalian elevational diversity. Ecology, 88(1): 76-86.
17. Pandurska R. 1996. Altitudinal distribution of bats in Bulgaria. Myotis, 34: 45-50.
18. Papadatou E, Butlin R.K. and Altringham J.D. 2008. Identification of bat species in Greece from their echolocation calls. Acta Chiropterologica, 10(1): 127-143.
19. Papanastasis V.P. 2004. Traditional vs contemporary management of Mediterranean vegetation: the case of the island of Crete. J. Biol. Research, 1: 39- 46
20. Parsons K.N., Jones G., Davidson-Watts I. and Greenaway F. 2003. Swarming of bats at underground sites in Britain-implications for conservation. Biol. Conserv., 111: 63-70.
21. Patterson B.D., Pacheco V. and Solari S. 1996. Distributions of bats along an elevational gradient in the Andes of southeastern Peru. J. Zool. Lond., 240: 637-658.
22. Patterson B.D., Stotz D.F. Solari S., Fitzpatrick J.W. and Pachero V. 1998. Contrasting patterns of elevational zonation for birds and mammals in the Andes of south-eastern Peru. J. Biogeogr., 25: 593-607.
23. Preatoni D.G., Nodari M., Chirichella R., Tosi G.,Wauters L.A. and Martinoli A. 2005. Identifying bats from Time-Expanded recordings of search calls: comparing classification methods. J. Wildlife Manag., 69(4): 1601-1614.
24. Quinn G.P. and M.J. Keough. 2002. Experimental design and data analysis for biologists.Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 537 pp.
25. Rackham O. and Moody J. 1996. The Making of the Cretan Landscape. Manchester University Press, Manchester, UK. 237 pp.
26. Rahbek C. 1995. The elevational gradient of species richness: a uniform pattern? Ecography, 18: 200-205.
27. Rahbek C. 2005. The role of spatial scale and the perception of large-scale species-richness patterns. Ecology Letters, 8: 224-239.
28. Russo D. 2002. Elevation affects the distribution of the two sexes in Daubenton's bats Myotis daubentonii (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from Italy. Mammalia, 66(4): 543-551
29. Russo D. and Jones G. 2002. Identification of twenty-two bat species (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from Italy by analysis of time-expanded recordings of echolocation calls. J. Zool. Lond., 258: 91-103.
30. Russo D. and Jones G. 2003. Use of foraging habitats by bats in a Mediterranean area determined by acoustic surveys: conservation implications. Ecography, 26: 197-209.
31. Sanchez-Cordero V. 2001. Elevation gradients of diversity for rodents and bats in Oaxaca, Mexico. Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr., 10: 63-76.
32. Schober W. and Grimmberger E. 1997. The bats of Europe and North America.-T.F.H. publications, 239 pp.
33. Skiba R. 2007. Zum vorkommen der fledermause in Krete (Griechenland). Nyctalus, 12(1): 52-60.
34. Taylor L. R. 1963. Analysis of the effects of temperature on insects in flight. J. Anim. Ecol., 32: 99-117.
35. Vaughan N., Jones G. and Harris S. 1997a. Habitat use by bats (Chiroptera) assessed by means of a broad-band acoustic method. J. App. Ecology, 34: 716-730.
36. Vaughan N., Jones G. and Harris S. 1997b. Identification of British bat species by multivariate analysis of echolocation call parameters. Bioacoustics, 7: 189-207.
37. Walsh A.L. and Harris S. 1996a. Factors determining the abundance of vespertilionid bats in Britain: geographical, land class and local habitat relationships. J. Appl. Ecol., 33: 519-529.
38. Walsh A.L. and Harris S. 1996b. Foraging habitat preferences of vespertilionid bats in Britain. J. Appl. Ecol., 33: 508-518.
39. Willig M.R., Patterson B.D. and Stevens R.D. 2003. Pattens of range size, richness and body size in the chiroptera. In: Kunz T.H. and Fenton M.B. (eds), Bat ecology. The University of Chicago press, 779 + xix pp.