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Driving factors for the evolution of species-specific echolocation call design in new world free-tailed bats (molossidae) by Jung, Kirsten, Molinari, Jesús, Kalko, Elisabeth K V

“…Phylogeny, ecology, and sensorial constraints are thought to be the most important factors influencing echolocation call design in bats. The Molossidae is a…”
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Environmental Factors Affect Acidobacterial Communities below the Subgroup Level in Grassland and Forest Soils by NAETHER, Astrid, FOESEL, Bärbel U, GOCKEL, Sonja, HEMP, Andreas, KALKO, Elisabeth K. V, EDUARD LINSENMAIR, Karl, PFEIFFER, Simone, RENNER, Swen, SCHÖNING, Ingo, WEISSER, Wolfgang W, WELLS, Konstans, FISCHER, Markus, NAEGELE, Verena, OVERMANN, Jörg, FRIEDRICH, Michael W, WÜST, Pia K, WEINERT, Jan, BONKOWSKI, Michael, ALT, Fabian, OELMANN, Yvonne, POLLE, Andrea, LOHAUS, Gertrud

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Echolocating bats cry out loud to detect their prey by Surlykke, Annemarie, Kalko, Elisabeth K V

“…Echolocating bats have successfully exploited a broad range of habitats and prey. Much research has demonstrated how time-frequency structure of echolocation…”
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Bats Limit Arthropods and Herbivory in a Tropical Forest by Kalka, Margareta B, Smith, Adam R, Kalko, Elisabeth K.V

“…Previous exclosure studies measuring the top-down control of arthropod abundance and herbivory combined the effects of birds and bats. We experimentally…”
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Moving in three dimensions: effects of structural complexity on occurrence and activity of insectivorous bats in managed forest stands by Jung, Kirsten, Kaiser, Sonja, Böhm, Stefan, Nieschulze, Jens, Kalko, Elisabeth K. V.

“…1. Forest management determines to a large degree the three-dimensional arrangement of the vegetation in production forest systems and hence has an essential…”
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Where forest meets urbanization: foraging plasticity of aerial insectivorous bats in an anthropogenically altered environment by Jung, Kirsten, Kalko, Elisabeth K. V.

“…Given worldwide rapid human population growth resulting in degradation or loss of habitats, it is important to understand how anthropogenic factors affect…”
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Frugivorous bats maintain functional habitat connectivity in agricultural landscapes but rely strongly on natural forest fragments by Ripperger, Simon P, Kalko, Elisabeth K V, Rodríguez-Herrera, Bernal, Mayer, Frieder, Tschapka, Marco

“…Anthropogenic changes in land use threaten biodiversity and ecosystem functioning by the conversion of natural habitat into agricultural mosaic landscapes,…”
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Top-down control of herbivory by birds and bats in the canopy of temperate broad-leaved oaks (Quercus robur) by Böhm, Stefan M, Wells, Konstans, Kalko, Elisabeth K V

“…The intensive foraging of insectivorous birds and bats is well known to reduce the density of arboreal herbivorous arthropods but quantification of collateral…”
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Land use history and population dynamics of free-standing figs in a maturing forest by Albrecht, Larissa, Stallard, Robert F, Kalko, Elisabeth K V

“…Figs (Ficus sp.) are often considered as keystone resources which strongly influence tropical forest ecosystems. We used long-term tree-census data to track…”
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Henipavirus RNA in African bats by Drexler, Jan Felix, Corman, Victor Max, Gloza-Rausch, Florian, Seebens, Antje, Annan, Augustina, Ipsen, Anne, Kruppa, Thomas, Müller, Marcel A, Kalko, Elisabeth K V, Adu-Sarkodie, Yaw, Oppong, Samuel, Drosten, Christian

“…Henipaviruses (Hendra and Nipah virus) are highly pathogenic members of the family Paramyxoviridae. Fruit-eating bats of the Pteropus genus have been suggested…”
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How Nectar-Feeding Bats Localize their Food: Echolocation Behavior of Leptonycteris yerbabuenae Approaching Cactus Flowers by Gonzalez-Terrazas, Tania P, Koblitz, Jens C, Fleming, Theodore H, Medellín, Rodrigo A, Kalko, Elisabeth K V, Schnitzler, Hans-Ulrich, Tschapka, Marco

“…Nectar-feeding bats show morphological, physiological, and behavioral adaptations for feeding on nectar. How they find and localize flowers is still poorly…”
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Activity levels of bats and katydids in relation to the lunar cycle by Lang, Alexander B, Kalko, Elisabeth K. V, Römer, Heinrich, Bockholdt, Cecile, Dechmann, Dina K. N

“…Animals are exposed to many conflicting ecological pressures, and the effect of one may often obscure that of another. A likely example of this is the…”
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Biome transitions as centres of diversity: habitat heterogeneity and diversity patterns of West African bat assemblages across spatial scales by Fahr, Jakob, Kalko, Elisabeth K. V.

“…It is widely accepted that species diversity is contingent upon the spatial scale used to analyze patterns and processes. Recent studies using coarse sampling…”
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Climate, habitat, and species interactions at different scales determine the structure of a Neotropical bat community by Estrada-Villegas, Sergio, McGill, Brian J, Kalko, Elisabeth K. V

“…Climate, habitat, and species interactions are factors that control community properties (e.g., species richness, abundance) across various spatial scales…”
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third dimension of bat migration: evidence for elevational movements of Miniopterus natalensis along the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro by Voigt, Christian C, Helbig-Bonitz, Maria, Kramer-Schadt, Stephanie, Kalko, Elisabeth K. V

“…Bats are important ecosystem service providers, and therefore most relevant for both lowland and highland habitats, particularly in the tropics. Yet, it is…”
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Echolocation call intensity and directionality in flying short-tailed fruit bats, Carollia perspicillata (Phyllostomidae) by BRINKLØV, Signe, JAKOBSEN, Lasse, RATCLIFFE, John M, KALKO, Elisabeth K. V, SURLYKKE, Annemarie

“…The directionality of bat echolocation calls defines the width of bats' sonar "view," while call intensity directly influences detection range since adequate…”
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Effects of ingestion by neotropical bats on germination parameters of native free-standing and strangler figs (Ficus sp., Moraceae) by Heer, Katrin, Albrecht, Larissa, Kalko, Elisabeth K. V

“…Fruit-eating animals can influence the germination success of seeds through transportation and handling. We experimentally tested the contribution of ingestion…”
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Type I interferon reaction to viral infection in interferon-competent, immortalized cell lines from the African fruit bat Eidolon helvum by Biesold, Susanne E, Ritz, Daniel, Gloza-Rausch, Florian, Wollny, Robert, Drexler, Jan Felix, Corman, Victor M, Kalko, Elisabeth K V, Oppong, Samuel, Drosten, Christian, Müller, Marcel A

“…Bats harbor several highly pathogenic zoonotic viruses including Rabies, Marburg, and henipaviruses, without overt clinical symptoms in the animals. It has…”
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Sexually selected infanticide in a polygynous bat by Knörnschild, Mirjam, Ueberschaer, Katja, Helbig, Maria, Kalko, Elisabeth K V

“…Adult individuals of many species kill unrelated conspecific infants for several adaptive reasons ranging from predation or resource competition to the…”
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Temporal changes in randomness of bird communities across Central Europe by Renner, Swen C, Gossner, Martin M, Kahl, Tiemo, Kalko, Elisabeth K V, Weisser, Wolfgang W, Fischer, Markus, Allan, Eric

“…Many studies have examined whether communities are structured by random or deterministic processes, and both are likely to play a role, but relatively few…”
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