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Author Monadjem, Ara.

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

Publication Info. Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2020.

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Edition 2nd ed.
Description 1 online resource (730 pages)
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Note Description based upon print version of record.
Contents FRONT COVER -- TITLE PAGE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD TO THE FIRST EDITION -- FOREWORD TO THE SECOND EDITION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Geographical scope -- Classification and taxonomy -- Conservation status -- MUSEUM COLLECTIONS AND PIONEERING RESEARCHERS -- Researcher gallery -- The value of specimens -- Chiroptera collections -- Databases and authors' 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 -- INDEX -- BACK COVER
Summary This revised edition supplements the original account of bat species found in Southern and Central Africa with eight newly described species, bringing the total to 124. Updates to information on their evolution, biogeography, ecology and echolocation are based on the latest original research and will be invaluable to students and scientists.
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Subject Bats -- Africa, Southern.
Bats.
Southern Africa.
Bats -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
Congo (Democratic Republic)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Taylor, Peter John.
Cotterill, Fenton (Woody).
Schoeman, M. Corrie.
Other Form: Print version: Monadjem, Ara Bats of Southern and Central Africa : A Biogeographic and Taxonomic Synthesis, Second Edition Johannesburg : Wits University Press,c2020
ISBN 9781776145836
1776145836
9781776145829 hardback