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
2011
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GTAG: architecture and design of miniature transmitter with position logging for radio telemetry
PHOTONICS APPLICATIONS IN ASTRONOMY, COMMUNICATIONS, INDUSTRY, AND HIGH-ENERGY PHYSICS EXPERIMENTS 2011, year: 2011
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GTAG: Architecture of Miniature Transmitter for Radio Tracking with Position Logging
Year: 2011, type: Conference abstract
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POPULATION STRUCTURE, SPATIAL PATTERN, AND FORAGING TACTICS OF AN ISOLATED POPULATION OF ROUSETTUS AEGYPTIACUS LIVING AT THE MARGIN OF THE SPECIES’ DISTRIBUTION
Year: 2011, type: Conference abstract
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Rousettus aegyptiacus (Pteropodidae) in the Palaearctic: list of records and revision of the distribution range
Vespertilio, year: 2011, volume: 15, edition: 1
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THE MEDITERRANEAN FRUIT BAT (Rousettus aegyptiacus): POSITION AND DYNAMICS OF RANGE MARGINS
Year: 2011, type: Conference abstract
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Zařízení pro sledování pohybu zvířat opatřených vysílači
Year: 2011
2010
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BAARA Biological AutomAted RAdiotelemetry system: New technology in ecological fiel studies
Year: 2010, type: Conference abstract
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Is the only european population of fruit bats close to extinction?
Year: 2010, type: Conference abstract
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Phylogeography of Pipistrellus pipistrellus species group: radiation and reticulation
Year: 2010, type: Conference abstract
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Rousettus aegyptiacus in the Mediterranean: Distribution, chorology and perspective
Year: 2010, type: Conference abstract