Dr Christoph Meyer's Outputs (7)

Functional recovery of Amazonian bat assemblages following secondary forest succession (2017)
Journal Article
Farneda, F., Rocha, R., Lopez-Baucells, A., Sampaio, E., Palmeirim, J., Bobrowiec, P., …Meyer, C. (2017). Functional recovery of Amazonian bat assemblages following secondary forest succession. Biological Conservation, 218, 192-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2017.12.036

Regenerating forests occupy large areas in the tropics, mostly as a result of deforestation for livestock and agriculture, followed by land abandonment. Despite the importance of regenerating secondary forests for tropical biodiversity conservation,... Read More about Functional recovery of Amazonian bat assemblages following secondary forest succession.

Molecular, morphological and acoustic identification of Eumops maurus and Eumops hansae (Chiroptera: Molossidae) with new reports from Central Amazonia (2017)
Journal Article
Lopez-Baucells, A., Rocha, R., Tavares, V., Moras, L., Silva, S., Bobrowiec, P., & Meyer, C. (2017). Molecular, morphological and acoustic identification of Eumops maurus and Eumops hansae (Chiroptera: Molossidae) with new reports from Central Amazonia. Tropical Zoology, 31(1), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/03946975.2017.1382284

Eumops maurus and Eumops hansae are rarely captured Neotropical molossid bats for
which information on taxonomy, natural history, and spatial distribution are scarce.
This translates into a poor understanding of their ecology and limits the delimit... Read More about Molecular, morphological and acoustic identification of Eumops maurus and Eumops hansae (Chiroptera: Molossidae) with new reports from Central Amazonia.

Geographical variation in the high-duty cycle echolocation of the cryptic common mustached bat Pteronotus cf. rubiginosus (Mormoopidae) (2017)
Journal Article
Lopez-Baucells, A., Torrent, L., Rocha, R., Pavan, A., Bobrowiec, P., & Meyer, C. (2017). Geographical variation in the high-duty cycle echolocation of the cryptic common mustached bat Pteronotus cf. rubiginosus (Mormoopidae). Bioacoustics, 27(4), 341-357. https://doi.org/10.1080/09524622.2017.1357145

The use of bioacoustics as a tool for bat research is rapidly increasing worldwide. There is substantial evidence that environmental factors such as weather conditions or habitat structure can affect echolocation call structure in bats and thus compr... Read More about Geographical variation in the high-duty cycle echolocation of the cryptic common mustached bat Pteronotus cf. rubiginosus (Mormoopidae).

Design matters : an evaluation of the impact of small man-made forest clearings on tropical bats using a before-after-control-impact design (2017)
Journal Article
Rocha, R., Ovaskainen, O., Lopez-Baucells, A., Farneda, F., Ferreira, D., Bobrowiec, P., …Meyer, C. (2017). Design matters : an evaluation of the impact of small man-made forest clearings on tropical bats using a before-after-control-impact design. Forest Ecology and Management, 401, 8-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2017.06.053

In recent years, large clearings (>1000 ha) accounted for gradually smaller amounts of total annual deforestation
in the Brazilian Amazon, whereas the proportion of small clearings (<50 ha) nowadays represents
more than 80% of annual deforestation....

Does sex matter? Gender-specific responses to forest fragmentation in Neotropical bats (2017)
Journal Article
Rocha, R., Ferreira, D., Lopez-Baucells, A., Farneda, F., Carreiras, J., Palmeirim, J., & Meyer, C. (2017). Does sex matter? Gender-specific responses to forest fragmentation in Neotropical bats. Biotropica, 49(6), 881-890. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.12474

Understanding the consequences of habitat modification on wildlife communities is central to the development of conservation strategies. However, albeit male and female individuals of numerous species are known to exhibit differences in habitat use,... Read More about Does sex matter? Gender-specific responses to forest fragmentation in Neotropical bats.

An Amazonian rainforest and its fragments as a laboratory of global change (2017)
Journal Article
Laurance, W., Camargo, J., Fearnside, P., Lovejoy, T., Williamson, B., Mesquita, R., …Laurance, S. (2017). An Amazonian rainforest and its fragments as a laboratory of global change. Biological Reviews, 93(1), 223-247. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12343

We synthesize findings from one of the world’s largest and longest-running experimental investigations, the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP). Spanning an area of ~1,000 km2 in central Amazonia, the BDFFP was initially designed... Read More about An Amazonian rainforest and its fragments as a laboratory of global change.

Season-modulated responses of Neotropical bats to forest fragmentation (2017)
Journal Article
Ferreira, D., Rocha, R., Lopez-Baucells, A., Farneda, F., Carreiras, J., Palmeirim, J., & Meyer, C. (2017). Season-modulated responses of Neotropical bats to forest fragmentation. Ecology and Evolution, 7(11), 4059-4071. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3005

Seasonality causes fluctuations in resource availability, affecting the presence and abundance of animal species. The impacts of these oscillations on wildlife populations can be exacerbated by habitat fragmentation. We assessed differences in bat sp... Read More about Season-modulated responses of Neotropical bats to forest fragmentation.