This review provides the first up-to-date information on distribution and status of bats in
Poland since 1983. The members of southern and northern European bat fauna occur in the …

Because of their role in limiting gene flow, geographical barriers like mountains or seas
often coincide with intraspecific genetic discontinuities. Although the Strait of Gibraltar …

Thirteen nursery colonies of Myotis myotis were sampled in central Europe to investigate the
dispersal behaviour of this bat species. Mitochondrial DNA sequences of 260 bats reveal the …

1. Niche theory predicts that the stable coexistence of species within a guild should be
associated, if resources are limited, with a mechanism of resource partitioning. Using …

Bats are unique among mammals in their use of powered flight and their widespread
capacity for laryngeal echolocation. Understanding how and when these and other abilities …

Analyses of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control region polymorphism and of variation at 10
nuclear microsatellite loci were used to investigate the mechanisms and genetic …

The Valdavara-1 cave, located in the westernmost part of the Iberian Peninsula, is an
archaeological site that has been excavated since 2007. At least two main sedimentary units …

The actual geographic distribution of the two sibling mouse‐eared bat species Myotis myotis
and Myotis blythii, which occur widely sympatrically in the western Palaearctic region …

CONTEXT AND CONTENT. Order Chiroptera, Suborder Microchiroptera, Family
Vespertilionidae, Subfamily Vespertilioninae. As presently understood, the genus …

The barbastelle (Barbastella barbastellus) is a rare forest bat with a wide distribution in
Europe. Here, we combine results from the analysis of two mtDNA fragments with species …