Bats of Southern and Central Africa: A Biogeographic and Taxonomic Synthesis, Second Edition

ISBN-13: 9781776145829 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 730 str.

Ara Monadjem; Peter John Taylor; Fenton (Woody) Cotterill

Spis treści

• Foreword to the First Edition
• Foreword to the Second Edition
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Geographical scope
• Classification and taxonomy
• Conservation status
• Museum Collectionsand Pioneering Researchers
• Researcher gallery
• The value of specimens
• Chiroptera collections
• Databases and author’s contributions
• Bat Biology
• Overview
• Migration
• Torpor and hibernation
• Reproduction
• Predation
• Foraging ecology and associated ecological services
• Roosting habits
• Foliage-roosting bats
• Hollow-roosting bats
• Crevice-roosting bats
• Specialised roost sites
• Biogeography
• Geology
• Ancient basement rocks
• Sedimentary rocks
• Rift valleys
• Geomorphology
• Escarpments
• Drainage systems
• Climates past and present
• Vegetation
• Grassland
• Savanna
• Forest
• Echolocation
• Echolocation systems
• Types of bat echolocation pulses
• Ecology of bat echolocation and flight
• Recording echolocation calls
• Spectrum analysis
• Bat detectors
• Spectrograms and echolocation
• Species Accounts
• Suborder Pteropodiformes
• Pteropodidae
• Hipposideridae
• Rhinonycteridae
• Rhinolophidae
• Megadermatidae
• Suborder Vespertilioniformes
• Emballonuridae
• Nycteridae
• Molossidae
• Miniopteridae
• Cistugidae
• Vespertilionidae
• Glossary
• List of Specimens
• References