Project information
Evolutionary biogeography of a fruit-bat, Rousettus aegyptiacus, in the Mediterranean region
- Project Identification
- IAA601110905
- Project Period
- 1/2009 - 12/2013
- Investor / Pogramme / Project type
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Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
- Grants of distinctly investigative character focused on the sphere of research pursued at present particularly in the ASCR
- MU Faculty or unit
- Faculty of Science
- Keywords
- biogeography; Rousettus; bats; Mediterranean; population biology; phylogeography
- Cooperating Organization
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The Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Charles University
In geographic and genetic structure, the Mediterranean population of fruit bat, Rousettus aegyptiacus, an only offshot of the family Pteropodidae beyond tropes, markedly differs from all other bats of that region. The project is intended to explain the background factors of these specificities, history and life-history traits promoting colonization of the Mediterranean and maintenance of local populations and answer which aspects of the climatic and environmental history of the region affected it essentially. The project combines methods of fine-grain molecular phylogeography and a long-term field study of the biology of the model species in several geographically distant model subpopulations and is expected to provide a complex information on the Mediterranean fruit bat including estimates of its total abundance and a critical reexamination of its biogeographic specificities.
Publications
Total number of publications: 23
2010
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Spatial activity and diet of Rousettus aegyptiacus in Cyprus: Does conservation of the only European fruit bat depend on supporting alien plants?
Year: 2010, type: Conference abstract
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The symparty of Miniopterus schreibersii schreibersii and Miniopterus s. pallidus in three caves: the smoking gun for their elevation to full species status
Year: 2010, type: Conference abstract
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The variability of echolocation and social calls of cryptic pipistrelles across western Palaearctic
Year: 2010, type: Conference abstract