Stella & Rose's Books

Front cover

Contents

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Area of Investigation
• 2.1 Landform of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district
• 2.2 Climate
• 2.3 Landuse
• 3 Methods - aims, description and evaluation
• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.2 Balancing of expense of the recording methods
• 4 State of the registration of bat population numbers before and after the project
• 4.1 Common pipistrelle
• 4.2 Serotine bat
• 4.3 The greater mouse eared bat
• 4.4 Natterer's bat
• 4.5 Whiskered bat
• 4.6 Common long-eared bat
• 4.7 Grey long -eared bat
• 4.8 Barbastelle bat
• 4.9 Conservation status of investigated bat species according to Red Lists
• 4.10 Summary
• 5 Requirements of summer roosts for bats
• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 Roost types and categories
• 5.3 Exposition
• 5.4 Roost openings
• 5.5 Location of roosts in town
• 5.6 Age of buildings
• 5.7 Upkeep condition of buildings
• 5.8 Height of buildings
• 5.9 Material of landing area
• 5.10 Roost temperatures
• 5.11 What are the features of a potential roost?
• 5.12 Summary
• 6 How do bats explore their roosts
• 6.1 Introduction
• 6.2 Swarming of the common pipistrelle at the hibernaculum
• 6.3 Spatiofunctional correlation between hibernaculum and summer roost (radio tracking)
• 6.4 Experiments in and at the hibernaculum concerning the roost locating ability of the common pipistrelle
• 6.5 Invasions
• 6.6 Swarming at the summer roost
• 6.7 Summary
• 7 Spatiofunctional relationships
• 7.1 Introduction
• 7.2 Summer roost assemblage (level 1)
• 7.3 Utilisation of foraging sites (level 2)
• 7.4 The summer move to another roost (level 3)
• 7.5 Spatial relationship between summer roost and hibernaculum (level 4)
• 7.6 Consequences for conservation
• 7.7 Summary
• 8 Population Genetics
• 8.1 Introduction
• 8.2 Basics of population genetics
• 8.3 Materials and methods
• 8.4 Results
• 8.5 Discussion
• 8.6 Summary
• 9 Roost destruction
• 9.1 Introduction
• 9.2 Roost destruction in the project area
• 9.3 Summary
• 10 How successful is the creation of new roosting opportunities?
• 10.1 Introduction
• 10.2 Description of roost offer
• 10.3 Control to determine success of newly created potential roosts
• 10.4 Final evaluation of newly created and optimised potential roosts
• 10.5 Summary
• 11 Landscape features and distributions
• 11.1 Introduction
• 11.2 Correlation between occurrence of particular bat species and specific landscape features
• 11,3 Flight routes of different bat species
• 11.4 Summary
• 12 Synopsis
• 12.1 Project goals and hypotheses
• 12.2 Evaluation of danger to bats
• 12.3 Conservation of bats in areas where they have settled
• 12.4 Improvement of database for bat conservation
• 12.5 Demands on federal, state and local government
• 13 Acknowledgements
• 14 References