Variability in echolocation call intensity in a community of horseshoe bats: a role for resource partitioning or communication?

Only recently data on bat echolocation call intensities is starting to accumulate. Yet, intensity is an ecologically crucial parameter, as it determines the extent of the bats' perceptual space and, specifically, prey detection distance. Interspecifically, we thus asked whether sympatric, conge...

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Main Authors: Maike Schuchmann, Björn M Siemers
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-09-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2941460?pdf=render