Christian Dietz

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a continental-scale classifier for acoustic identification of bats, which can be used throughout Europe to ensure objective, consistent and comparable species identifications, but the use of acoustic methods at continental scales can be hampered by the lack of standardized and objective methods to identify all species recorded.

TL;DR: Sequencing the mitochondrial protein-coding gene NADH dehydrogenase, subunit 1 (nd1) from 534 bats of the Western Palaearctic region corroborates the promise of DNA barcodes in two major respects and suggests an unexpected high number of undiscovered species.

TL;DR: A detailed study of the phylogeography of the greater horseshoe bat using 1098 bp of the mitochondrial ND2 gene from 45 localities from across its Palaearctic range to infer population history and shows two colonization events in Europe, one before the Last Glacial Maximum and one after it.

TL;DR: There was no correlation between RF and these body size parameters within a sex or age class for any of the species, suggesting that RF is not a reliable honest signal for intraspecific communication that would indicate the quality of a potential mate or competitor.

TL;DR: Together, these results suggest European populations originated from west Asia in the ancient past, and experienced a more recent range expansion since the Last Glacial Maximum.