Limitations of acoustic monitoring at wind turbines to evaluate fatality risk of bats

CC Voigt, D Russo, V Runkel, HR Goerlitz - Mammal Review, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Wind turbines (WTs) frequently kill bats worldwide. During environmental impact
assessments, consultant ecologists often use automated ultrasonic detectors (AUDs) to …

Beyond refueling: Investigating the diversity of functions of migratory stopover events

JA Linscott, NR Senner - The Condor, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Stopovers comprise a significant proportion of the time that many birds spend migrating, and
researchers have long relied on these events to define and classify broader migratory …

Efficient movement strategies mitigate the energetic cost of dispersal

JA Klarevas‐Irby, M Wikelski, DR Farine - Ecology Letters, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Dispersal is a critical, but costly, stage of life. During the active phase of dispersal—called
transience—individuals face many costs, from increased mortality to reduced foraging …

Bat activity correlated with migratory insect bioflows in the Pyrenees

WL Hawkes, K Davies, S Weston… - Royal Society …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
High altitude mountain passes in the Pyrenees are known to be important migratory hotspots
for autumn migrating insects originating from large swathes of northern Europe. In the …

[HTML][HTML] Bats use topography and nocturnal updrafts to fly high and fast

MT O'Mara, F Amorim, M Scacco, GF McCracken… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
During the day, flying animals exploit the environmental energy landscape by seeking out
thermal or orographic uplift, or extracting energy from wind gradients. 1–6 However, most of …

Bats surf storm fronts during spring migration

E Hurme, I Lenzi, M Wikelski, TA Wild, DKN Dechmann - Science, 2025 - science.org
Long-distance migration, common in passerine birds, is rare and poorly studied in bats.
Piloting a 1.2-gram IoT (Internet of Things) tag with onboard processing, we tracked the daily …

BATScan: A radar classification tool reveals large‐scale bat migration patterns

Y Werber, H Sextin, Y Yovel… - Methods in Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Bat movement and behaviour are still mostly understudied over large scales. High‐altitude,
nocturnal activity makes visual identification of bats from the ground virtually impossible …

Contrasting torpor use by reproductive male common noctule bats in the laboratory and in the field

L Keicher, JR Shipley, PJ Schaeffer… - Integrative and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Metabolic processes of animals are often studied in controlled laboratory settings. However,
these laboratory settings often do not reflect the animals' natural environment. Thus, results …

Modeling migration and movement of gray bats

C Holliday, JP Wisby, PL Roby… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Managing landscapes for migratory species is challenging when migratory movement
patterns are unknown. Researchers have collected sufficient data to understand summer …

Assessing the evidence for treating developmental plasticity and phenotypic flexibility as different phenomena

M Stager, JP Velotta, ZA Cheviron… - Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Phenotypic plasticity has long played a central role in eco‐evolutionary theory, but it was not
until 20 years ago that it was proposed that the term encompasses two distinct phenomena …