This volume provides comprehensive overviews of each European bat species' biology including palaeontology, physiology, genetics, reproduction and development, ecology, habitat, diet, mortality and age determination. Their economic significance and management, as well as future challenges for research and conservation are also addressed. Each chapter includes a distribution map, a photograph of the animal and key literature. This authoritative volume of the Handbook of the Mammals of Europe is a timely and detailed compilation of all European bats and will appeal to academics, students and professionals in mammal research.

Comprehensive overviews of each European bat species' biology Each species account includes a distribution map, a photograph and key literature For academics, students, & professionals in mammal research, conservation, & management

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Danilo Russo is an animal ecologist mainly working on vertebrates (especially bats and more recently rodents) but also on a flagship long-horned beetle, the Rosalia longicorn (Rosalia alpina). His research interests cover a range of topics, including habitat selection, resource partitioning, sensory ecology, social behaviour, evolutionary biology, biogeography and conservation biology. He is currently leading Wildlife Research Unit at University of Naples Federico II.

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This volume provides comprehensive overviews of each European bat species biology including palaeontology, physiology, genetics, reproduction and development, ecology, habitat, diet, mortality and age determination. Their economic significance and management, as well as future challenges for research and conservation are also addressed. Each chapter includes a distribution map, a photograph of the animal and key literature. This authoritative volume of the Handbook of the Mammals of Europe is a timely and detailed compilation of all European bats and will appeal to academics, students and professionals in mammal research.

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Tadarida teniotis (Rafinesque, 1814) European free-tailed bat.- Rhinolophus ferrumequinum (Schreber, 1774) greater horseshoe bat.- Rhinolophus hipposideros (Bechstein, 1800) lesser horseshoe bat.- Rhinolophus euryale Blasius, 1853 Mediterranean horseshoe bat.- Rhinolophus blasii Peters, 1866 Blasius' horseshoe bat.- Rhinolophus mehelyi Matschie, 1901 Mehely's horseshoe bat.- Barbastella barbastellus (Schreber, 1774) barbastelle.- Eptesicus serotinus (Schreber, 1774) serotine.- Eptesicus nilssonii (Keyserling & Blasius, 1839) northern bat.- Eptesicus bottae (Peters, 1869) Botta's serotine.- Hypsugo savii (Bonaparte, 1837) Savi's pipistrelle.- Miniopterus schreibersii (Kuhl, 1817) Schreiber's bat, bent-winged bat.- Myotis daubentonii (Kuhl, 1817) Daubenton's bat.- Myotis capaccinii (Bonaparte, 1837) long-fingered bat.- Myotis dasycneme (Boie, 1825) pond bat.- Myotis brandtii (Eversmann, 1845) Brandt's bat.- Myotis mystacinus (Kuhl, 1817) whiskered bat.- Myotis aurascens Kusjakin, 1935 steppe whiskered bat, Eastern whiskered bat.- Myotis alcathoe von Helversen & Heller, 2001 Alcathoe's bat, nymph bat.- M yotis emarginatus (Geoffroy, 1806) Geoffroy's bat.- Myotis nattereri (Kuhl, 1817) Natterer's bat.- Myotis bechsteinii (Kuhl, 1817) Bechstein's bat.- Myotis myotis (Borkhausen, 1797) greater mouse-eared bat.- Myotis blythii (Tomes, 1857) lesser mouse-eared bat.- Myotis punicus (Felten, 1977) Maghrebian mouse-eared bat.- Nyctalus azoreum (Thomas, 1901) * Azores noctule.- Nyctalus noctula (Schreber, 1774) noctule.- Nyctalus leisleri (Kuhl, 1817) Leisler's noctule Nyctalus lasiopterus (Schreber, 1780) greater noctule.- Pipistrellus pipistrellus (Schreber, 1774) common pipistrelle, 45 kHz pipistrelle.- Pipistrellus pygmaeus (Leach, 1825) soprano pipistrelle, midge bat, 55 kHz pipistrelle.- Pipistrellus nathusii (Keyserling & Blasius, 1839) Nathusius' pipistrelle.- Pipistrellus kuhlii (Kuhl, 1817) Kuhl's pipistrelle.- Pipistrellus maderensis Dobson, 1878 Madeiran pipistrelle.- Plecotus teneriffae Barrett-Hamiton, 1907 Canary long-eared bat.- Plecotus auritus (Linnaeus, 1758) common long-eared bat, brown long-eared bat.- Plecotus austriacus (Fischer, 1829) grey long-eared bat.- Plecotus macrobullaris (Kusjakin, 1965) Alpine long-eared bat.- Plecotus kolombatovici (Dulic, 1980) Kolombatovic's long-eared bat, Balkan long-eared bat.- Plecotus sardus Mucedda & Kiefer, 2002 Sardinian long-eared bat.- Vespertilio murinus* Linnaeus, 1758 parti-coloured bat.