Home range of Noack's round-leaf bat (Hipposideros aff. ruber) in an agricultural landscape of central Ghana

• Autorzy: Nkrumah E.E. , Vallo P. , Klose S.M. , Ripperger S. , Badu E.K. , Drosten C. , Kalko E.K.V. , Tschapka M. , Oppong S.K.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Thirteen individuals of Noack's round-leaf bat, Hipposideros aff. ruber, were radio-tracked for 38 nights in an agricultural landscape in Kwamang, Ashanti Region, Ghana. Local convex hulls were used to estimate home range sizes of the bats. Based on 1,192 fixes, the mean (± SD) home range size was 36 ha ± 35 ha. Individual home range size ranged from six to 95 ha and frequently overlapped among individuals. The foraging area covered 50% of the home range while the core area formed 2%. The mean maximum foraging distance was 1.1 km, with individual distances up to 2.6 km, suggesting Hipposideros aff. ruber is capable of covering relatively long distances. Male bats returned to the cave more often than females during the night. Although the cave was the main roost, each bat also had individual night roosts on trees.

• Wydawca: -
• Czasopismo: Acta Chiropterologica
• Rocznik: 2016
• Tom: 18
• Numer: 1
• Opis fizyczny: p.239-247,fig.,ref.

Twórcy

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Nkrumah E.E.

• Department of Wildlife and Range Management, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

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Vallo P.

• Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation Genomics, University of Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89069 Ulm, Germany
• Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i., Kvetna 8, 603 65 Brno, Czech Republic

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Klose S.M.

• Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation Genomics, University of Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89069 Ulm, Germany

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Ripperger S.

• Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation Genomics, University of Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89069 Ulm, Germany

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Badu E.K.

• Department of Wildlife and Range Management, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

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Drosten C.

• Institute of Virology, University of Bonn Medical Centre, Bonn 53127, Germany

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Kalko E.K.V.

• Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation Genomics, University of Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89069 Ulm, Germany
• Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama

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Tschapka M.

• Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation Genomics, University of Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89069 Ulm, Germany
• Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama

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Oppong S.K.

• Department of Wildlife and Range Management, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

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DOI

10.3161/15081109ACC2016.18.1.014