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Dead trees mean life to Italian barbastelle bats
No full textRusso Danilo. Dead trees mean life to Italian barbastelle bats. In: Ecologia mediterranea, tome 29 n°2, 2003. pp. 258-260
Elevation affects the distribution of the two sexes in Daubenton’s bats Myotis daubentonii (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from Italy
No full textThe effects of land abandonment on animal species in Europe: conservation and management implications
No full textLa monografia presenta una disamina critica degli effetti noti o presunti dell'abbandono delle attività agro-silvo-pastorali sulle comunità di vertebrati in Europ
Zoogeography: an ecological perspective
No full textChapter devoted to ecological zoogeography, part of a broader geography volume developed within the EOLSS - UNESCO initiativ
The social calls of Kuhl’s pipistrelles Pipistrellus kuhlii (Kuhl, 1819): structure and variation (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae)
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Individual vs. Non-individual acoustic signalling in African woodland dormice (Graphiurus murinus)
No full textAnimals that live in cohesive groups often use social calls for long-distance communication, particularly in low-visibility habitats, whereas other call types are only used to communicate over short distances. According to the "distance-communication hypothesis" only the former should encode individual information while the latter should not because individuals are in visual or olfactory contact when calls are broadcast. We used the African woodland dormouse Graphiurus murinus, a social rodent whose vocal repertoire is still poorly known, as a model species to test the hypothesis that long-range but not short-range calls will structurally differ across individuals. By conducting controlled video- and audio recordings in captivity, we associated calls to non-vocal behaviours in G. murinus and selected two call types (contact and aggressive calls) that clearly served long- and short-range communication respectively. In agreement with the distance-communication hypothesis, only contact but not aggressive calls differed significantly among subjects. Although we did not test the actual function of such variation, the latter provides a structural basis for the transmission of individual information. This is the first time this hypothesis is tested in a small non-volant mammal. Our study also provides the first description of acoustic behaviour in G. murinus
Machine Learning for complex chemical system optimization: an overview of recent applications of Gaussian Processes surrogates
No full textMachine Learning for complex chemical system optimization: an overview of recent applications of Gaussian Processes surrogate
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