caa a22 4500 378895567 CHVBK 20180305123505.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20041201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1515/mamm.2004.038 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/mamm.2004.038 Drescher Christian Museum of Nature, South Tyrol, Bindergasse 1, 39100 Bozen (Italy) Radiotracking of Myotis myotis (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) in South Tyrol and implications for its conservation [Elektronische Daten] [Christian Drescher] In Central Europe, greater mouse eared bats (Myotis myotis, Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) are simultaneously reliant on man (for maternity roosts) and adversely affected by him (e.g. landscape destruction). This is a common situation for most of the Central-European bat species. In South Tyrol, however, large maternity colonies of mouse eared bats are often situated amidst zones of intensive apple growing and they usually thrive. A radiotracking study conducted in July 2000 and 2001 shows strong foraging activity in the valley bottom and nearby slopes. The elongation of the home range was 15 km, core areas ranged from 2 to 6 km away from the nursery. The greater mouse eared bats mainly used intensively cultivated orchards and deciduous shrub forests. Mature forests, meadows and pastures were scarcely used. Unfortunately intensification in apple growing; eliminating high trees and covering orchards with hail nets, is an ongoing process. To preserve greater mouse eared bats it is necessary for them to continue using the orchards in the future. So it seems necessary to convince farmers that bats in the orchards are beneficial. Copyright 2004, Walter de Gruyter Myotis myotis nationallicence radiotracking nationallicence foraging nationallicence habitats nationallicence agriculture nationallicence Mammalia Walter de Gruyter 68/4(2004-12-01), 387-395 0025-1461 68:4<387 2004 68 mamm https://doi.org/10.1515/mamm.2004.038 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/mamm.2004.038 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Drescher Christian Museum of Nature, South Tyrol, Bindergasse 1, 39100 Bozen (Italy) NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Mammalia Walter de Gruyter 68/4(2004-12-01), 387-395 0025-1461 68:4<387 2004 68 mamm CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter