Functional significance of emergence timing in bats

By P. Duvergé, Gareth J. F. Jones, J. Rydell, R. Ransome. 2000

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Activity patterns and habitat preferences of insectivorous bats in a West African forest–savanna mosaic (2004, background): “…emergence time of bats from their roosts appears to constitute a trade-off between prey availability and predation risk (Jones & Rydell 1994), sometimes compromised by variations in energetic demand (Duvergé et al. 2000) and seasonal fluctuations in insect abundance (Rautenbach et al. 1988).”
Bats and Buildings: The Conservation of Synanthropic Bats (2015, background): “However, clustered emergence of bats from roosts in buildings may point to antipredatory behavior in synanthropic bats in urban environments (Speakman et al. 1995; Duvergé et al. 2008; but see Irwin and Speakman 2003).”
Emergence time in forest bats: the influence of canopy closure (2007, methodology): “During the reproductive season, some species have been found to emerge progressively earlier from pregnancy to late lactation (Shiel and Fairley, 1999; Duvergé et al., 2000).”