Detailed Information on Publication Record
2008
Bat bugs (Cimicidae, Heteroptera): a possible cause of roost switching by bats
BARTONIČKA, TomášBasic information
Original name
Bat bugs (Cimicidae, Heteroptera): a possible cause of roost switching by bats
Name in Czech
Śtěnice (Cimicidae, Heteroptera): možná příčina střídání úkrytů netopýry
Authors
BARTONIČKA, Tomáš (203 Czech Republic, guarantor)
Edition
Abstract XIth European Bat Research Symposium, 2008
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Konferenční abstrakt
Field of Study
10600 1.6 Biological sciences
Country of publisher
Romania
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14310/08:00024887
Organization unit
Faculty of Science
Keywords in English
bat bugs; pipistrelles
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International impact
Změněno: 1/9/2010 14:34, doc. Mgr. Tomáš Bartonička, Ph.D.
V originále
Previous results have shown frequent movements among different shelters of crevice-dwelling bats. Low roost fidelity of some dwelling bat species reduces the reproductive success of ectoparasites. Up to the present, studies concerning bat ectoparasites have mainly dealt with species which live on their hosts bodies permanently whereas the relations between bat species roosting in crevices and their ectoparasites living in the same shelters but mostly without physical contact with their hosts, are often based only on guesses. Sessions in the volary equipped with two bat boxes were carried out. One of the boxes was loaded with ectoparasites, the other served as a control and new roost for bats which left loaded box. The differences in the level of bat autogrooming, movements inside experimental boxes and leaving the boxes between experiments with bat bugs and controls without bat bugs were significant. Allogrooming was observed only in few cases therefore hypothesis of cooperation among individual bats in defence against bat bugs was rejected. Experiments with artificial parasitation show that leaving a roost of confined space occupied by high number of ectoparasites, i.e. roost switching, is a natural behaviour of crevice-dwelling bat species. The study was supported by grants No. MSM0021622416 and 206/07/P098.
In Czech
Śtěnice (Cimicidae, Heteroptera): možná příčina střídání úkrytů netopýry
Links
| GP206/07/P098, research and development project |
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| MSM0021622416, plan (intention) |
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