Year-round monitoring of bat records in an urban area:Kharkiv (NE Ukraine), 2013, as a case study
Description
(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) This study presents information about the year-round phenology of bats of temperate zones in a city area for the first time. In total, 967 individuals of 5 bat species (Nyctalus noctula [87.5%], Eptesicus serotinus [10.6%], Pipistrellus kuhlii [0.8%], Vespertilio murinus [0.9%], and Plecotus auritus [0.1%]) were recorded during 2013 in Kharkiv. The population structures of temperate bat species are complex; segregation of sex and age groups varies spatially and seasonally. Most of the bats (88%) were collected during the hibernation period (January–March and November–December) and the autumn invasion (August–mid-September). The breeding period saw a lower number of bats collected, making up 0.5% of records (May–July). The degree of tolerance to urbanization is species-specific. The bats were found indoors (68.6%), between window frames (26.6%), outdoors (2.8%), in basements (1.05%), and on balconies (0.95%). Bats of temperate latitudes inhabit big cities in significantly increasing numbers in winter, spring, and autumn. They avoid urban areas in both the breeding period and the period of fat-store accumulation before hibernation.
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Identifiers
- URL
- hash://md5/c127d9fab25293da83a973d3a0b6236e
- URN
- urn:lsid:zotero.org:groups:5435545:items:8GG8KC4L
- DOI
- 10.3906/zoo-1602-51
Biodiversity
- Class
- Mammalia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Chiroptera
- Phylum
- Chordata