Roost switching, roost sharing and social cohesion: forest-dwelling big brown bats, Eptesicus fuscus, conform to the fission–fusion model

By C. K. R. Willis. 2004

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Subfields: Developmental Biology, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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Long-distance movements of little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus) (2013, background): “Female bats are known to exhibit high levels of long-term fidelity to summer maternity roosts (Lewis 1995; Willis et al. 2003; Willis and Brigham 2004), whereas dispersal is often male biased (e.g., Arnold 2007; Castella et al. 2001; Kerth et al. 2002).”
Spatial and temporal patterns of roost use by tree-dwelling barbastelle bats Barbastella barbastellus (2005, background): “Few studies have directly addressed these hypotheses (but see Lewis 1996, and Willis and Brigham 2004), mostly due to logistic difficulties.”
Reconsidering the importance of harvested forests for the conservation of tree-dwelling bats (2010, background): “Because forest bats often switch roosts (Lewis 1995; Kerth and König 1999; Willis and Brigham 2004; Russo et al. 2005; Popa-Lisseanu et al. 2008), the effectiveness of this mitigation to sustain even small populations depends on retaining a sufficiently large area,”
Emergence time in forest bats: the influence of canopy closure (2007, background): “…on tree-roosting bats (e.g. Lacki and Schwierjohann, 2001; Law and Anderson, 2000; Lumsden et al., 2002; Sedgeley and O’Donnell, 1999a,b; Sedgeley, 2001; Russo et al., 2004, 2005; Willis and Brigham, 2004), emergence behaviour in these species remains little investigated (but see e.g. Jones, 1995).”
Greetings promote cooperation and reinforce social bonds among spotted hyaenas (2011, background): “…(Loxodonta spp.: Wittemyer et al. 2005; Archie et al. 2006b), many cetaceans (e.g. bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops spp.: Connor et al. 2001; Lusseau 2003) and bats (see Kerth & Konig 1999; Willis & Brigham 2004; Metheny et al. 2008), as well as most gregarious carnivores (reviewed by Gittleman 1989).”
Nonrandom association patterns at northern long- eared bat maternity roosts (2007, methodology): “…have been quantitatively investigated in some other free-ranging forest bat species (e.g., big brown bats, Eptesicus fuscus (Beauvois, 1796), Willis and Brigham 2004; New Zealand long-tailed bats, Chalinolobus tuberculatus (Forster, 1844), O’Donnell 2000; Bechstein’s bats, Kerth and Konig…”
Do social networks of female northern long-eared bats vary with reproductive period and age? (2010, background): “Because most of the captured females were reproductive (70%) and reproduction tends to be highly synchronous in temperate bats (O'Donnell 2002; Racey 1982; Racey and Entwistle 2000), we had few pairwise data to compare association patterns between pairs in different reproductive condition as has bee”
PHYSIOLOGICAL AND ECOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF ROOST SELECTION BY REPRODUCTIVE FEMALE HOARY BATS (LASIURUS CINEREUS) (2005, unknown): “Forest-living bats switch roost sites frequently (Kalcounis and Brigham 1998; Kurta et al. 2002; Menzel et al. 1998; Veilleux et al. 2003; Willis and Brigham 2004).”
BENEFITS OF LIVING IN A BUILDING: BIG BROWN BATS (EPTESICUS FUSCUS) IN ROCKS VERSUS BUILDINGS (2006, background): “This fission– fusion type of colony structure (Kerth and König 1999; O’Donnell 2000; Willis and Brigham 2004) requires communication and coordination and may be facilitated in buildings that provide individuals requiring different thermoregulatory regimes with suitable safe roosting…”
Range Extent and Stand Selection for Roosting and Foraging in Forest-Dwelling Northern Long-Eared Bats and Little Brown Bats in the Greater Fundy Ecosystem, New Brunswick (2006, background): “…a critical resource for bats (Kunz and Lumsden 2003) and others have noted the use of specific roosting areas (Ormsbee 1996, Weller and Zabel 2001, Willis and Brigham 2004), we predicted that the bats were central-place foragers, with the MRA center being the central place around which the…”
Social thermoregulation exerts more influence than microclimate on forest roost preferences by a cavity-dwelling bat (2007, methodology): “Sharing of day roosts is strongly influenced by preferences of individuals for each other or active associations (Willis and Brigham 2004).”