Differences in sensory ecology contribute to resource partitioning in the bats Myotis bechsteinii and Myotis nattereri (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae)

By Björn M. Siemers, S. Swift. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2006

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Sensory Basis of Food Detection in Wild Microcebus murinus (2007, background): “Siemers and Schnitzler (2004) and Siemers and Swift (2006) have recently shown that in bats differences in sensory access to food reflect niche differentiation in sympatric, potentially competing species.”
Spatiotemporal variation in activity of bat species differing in hunting tactics: effects of weather, moonlight, food abundance, and structural clutter (2007, background): “2003), foraging at different distances to obstacles (Baagøe 1987; Siemers and Schnitzler 2004), pursuing insects in the air, and gleaning from the water surface or foliage (Fenton and Bogdanowicz 2002; Siemers and Swift 2006).”
Species-specific barrier effects of a motorway on the habitat use of two threatened forest-living bat species (2009, background): “…bats, on the contrary, have small individual home ranges (normally <100 ha; Kerth et al., 2001; Kerth and Morf, 2004) and their rounded wings allow for high manoeuvrability and for gleaning insects from the vegetation (Norberg and Rayner, 1987; Siemers and Swift, 2006; Dietz et al., 2007).”