Sensory constraints on prey detection performance in an ensemble of vespertilionid understorey rain forest bats

• Main Authors: Hashim, Rosli, Siemers, B.M., Schmieder, D.A., Kingston, T.
• Format: Article
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: QH301 Biology
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/8351/; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2435.2012.02024.x/abstract
• Institution: Universiti Malaya

1. Bats evolved different strategies to find prey close to vegetation. Previous studies on European bats of the genus Myotis (Vespertilionidae) revealed an association between echolocation call bandwidth and the ability to find and capture prey close to vegetation. Here, we investigated whether the...