Sex‐biased dispersal is an almost ubiquitous feature of mammalian life history, but the
evolutionary causes behind these patterns still require much clarification. A quarter of a …

A report by the Mammal Society under contract to Natural England, Natural Resources
Wales and Scottish Natural Heritage. We present the first comprehensive review of the …

A fully updated guide to the increasingly prevalent use of molecular data in ecological
studies Molecular ecology is concerned with how molecular biology and population genetics …

Background The scalloped hammerhead shark, Sphyrna lewini, is a large endangered
predator with a circumglobal distribution, observed in the open ocean but linked …

Bats are important ecosystems service providers, make a significant contribution to
biodiversity and can be important pests and disease vectors. In spite of this, information on …

Many temperate insectivorous bats show marked sexual segregation during the summer, but
in spectacular, pre-hibernation swarming, gather at caves to mate. In many species, sexual …

Quantifying distributions, home ranges, and individual movements for wildlife species is
crucial for understanding their ecology and is important for conservation. This has become …

During autumn 'swarming', large numbers of temperate bats chase each other in and around
underground sites. Swarming has been proposed to be a mating event, allowing …

The field of molecular ecology has burgeoned into a large discipline spurred on by technical
innovations that facilitate the rapid acquisition of large amounts of genotypic data, by the …

Many species of temperate bats visit underground sites in autumn, prior to hibernation, and
chase each other in and around the entrances in an event known as autumn swarming. It …