Content: Karyotype Evolution in Vespertilionoidea: Centromere Repositioning and Inversions in Molossidae (Chiroptera, Mammalia)Marianne Volleth, Klaus-Gerhard Heller, Christopher Tidemann, Hoi-Sen Yong, Martin Göpfert, Stefan Müllerhttps://doi.org/10.3161/15081109ACC2023.25.1.001KEYWORDS: Cytotaxonomy, chromosomal evolution, bat phylogenetics Karyotype Comparison of Five African Vespertilionini Species with Comments on Phylogenetic
Wind farms in forests: a worrying story from France
With the increase of goals to tackle the climate crisis, the energy industry is logically looking for new areas to install wind farms. Similar to Germany, the energy companies in France are installing more and more wind farms in forests
New download area on the bat observatory page
A new download area has been created on the website of the bat observatory. At the moment you can find video animations and posters that are supposed to help distinguish cryptic bat species of the genera Myotis and Pipistellus .
Conference of the Bat Markers of the Bat Marking Central Dresden (FMZ) from 03. – 05.11.2023 at Mansfeld Castle (Saxony-Anhalt)
The last workshop of bat markers took place in 2016. In the time after that, it was not possible to organize a meeting, among other things due to the Corona pandemic. The event was supported by the AK Fledermäuse Sachsen-Anhalt
BatNet: a deep learning-based tool for automated bat species identification from camera trap images
Automated monitoring technologies can increase the efficiency of ecological data collection and support data-driven conservation. Camera traps coupled with infrared light barriers can be used to monitor temperate-zone bat assemblages at underground hibernacula, where thousands of individuals of multiple species
Arbeitshilfe Fledermäuse und Straßenverkehr: Bestandserfassung – Wirkungsprognose – Vermeidung / Kompensation
Neue Arbeitshilfe zur Fledermäusen und Straßenverkehr eschienen, herausgegeben vom Bundesministerium für Digitales und Verkehr. Im Speziellen geht es um “Bestandserfassung, Wirkungsprognose und Vermeidung / Kompensation”. Das Werk soll dabei helfen, Fledermäuse beim Ausbau des Verkehrsnetzes besser zu schützen bzw. Gefährdungen
International Bat Nights
The International Bat Night (IBN), which is proclaimed by EUROBATS, has been held every year since 1997 on the last full weekend in August in more than 30 countries. On these dates, nature conservation organisations and NGOs from all over
Several associations file a complaint with the European Commission against Germany – the government coalition is pursuing a dismantling of nature and species protection in violation of EU law
(Text: NI): The Nature Conservation Initiative e.V. (NI), the Association for Landscape Management, Species Protection and Biodiversity e.V. (VLAB) and the Society for the Rescue of Dolphins e.V. (GRD) are filing a complaint with the EU Commission against the Republic
The hearing of bats decreases with age
Hearing loss is a hallmark of aging, typically initially affecting the higher frequencies. In echolocating bats, the ability to discern high frequencies is essential. However, nothing is known about age-related hearing loss in bats, and they are often assumed to
Nyctalus Band 20, Heft 1-2 erschienen
Contents Original studies Rupp , H., Rackow , W.: The first description of the Lesser Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus hipposideros ( Bechstein 1800 ) and the resulting misunderstandings Bach , L., Bach , P., Donning , A., Göttsche , M., Göttsche