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Social behaviour and acoustic communication in greater mouse-eared bat (Myotis myotis)
Porteš, Michal ; Jahelková, Helena (advisor) ; Bartonička, Tomáš (referee)
Order Chiroptera is characterized by great variability in foraging, roost and social strategies. Greater mouse-eared bat (Myotis myotis, Borkhausen 1797) is a model species of a bat in Europe and his seasonal organisation of population represents typical temperate bat cycle with females aggregated in large maternity colonies and solitery roosting males. Although the M.myotis is a model species, the majority of studies were focused on different aspects of maternity colonies biology and the biology of males is still poorly known. Recently founded aggregations of males of M. myotis in highway bridges allow to study social behaviour and acoustic communication of males on between individual level and discuss these findings with known information. While the bridge in Bernartice was inhabited by aggregation of males in individual roosts, in Voznice bridge we found besides males also a maternity colony of M. myotis. Harems of males were established from august until october. We found different pattern of seasonal roost occupancy in males with males with the highest level of mean occupancy having the highest level of female presence in roost. Vocalisation activity of males increased in august with highest level of activity in september. Males roosting closer to the flight entrance tended to have higher...
Behavioral ecology of reproduction of a bat, Myotis myotis.
Porteš, Michal ; Horáček, Ivan (advisor) ; Benda, Petr (referee)
Order Chiroptera is characterized by great variability in foraging, roost and social strategies. Polygamy is the most common mating system in this order and resource-defence polygyny is a typical strategy used by most of bats. The source which male defends is represented by roost and territory or by females in case of harems. Another strategy is represented by multi-male and multi-female autumn meeting at so-called swarming sites. With relatively non-specialized forms, the genus Myotis is widespread all over the world except arctic regions and is found in great number of biotops including tropical mountain forests and subarid regions. M. myotis and M. blythii/oxygnathus are two cryptic species which can be distinguished in morphological, biogeographical and ecological parameters. In central Europe, M. myotis uses synantropic roosts and recently started to use a highway bridges, mainly in autumn. Seasonal organization of population represents typical temperate cycle. The organization of maternity colonies reacts on different thermal conditions by changing aggregation in order to stay in thermal optimum. There is an intensive communication between females and juveniles in maternity colonies as well as between males and females in mating sites. Although that M.myotis is intensively studied in Europe,...

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