Table of Contents
Part I. Physiological Ecology Donald W. Thomas and John R. Speakman
1. Energetics, Thermal Biology, and Torpor in Australian Bats, Fritz Geiser
2. Temperature, Hibernation Energetics, and the Cave and Continental Distributions of Little Brown Bats, Murray M. Humpheries, John R. Speakman, Donald W. Thomas
3. Daily Hetrothermy by Temperate Bats Using Natural Roosts, Craig K.R. Willis
4. Exploring the Evolution of the Basal Metabolic Rate in Bats, Ariovaldo P. Cruz-Neto and Kate E. Jones
Part II. Functional Morphology
5. Quantifying the Relationship Between Form and Function and the Geometry of the Wear Process in Bat Molars, Alistair R. Evans
6. Dynamic Complexity of Wing Form in Bats: Implications for Flight Performance
7. Performance Analysis as a Tool for Understanding the Ecological Morphology of Flower-Visiting Bats, Christopher W. Nicolay and York Winter
8. Quadrupedal Bats: Form, Function, and Phylogeny, William A. Schutt, Jr. and Nancy B. Simmons
9. The Correlated Evolution of Cranial Morphology and Feeding Behavior in New World Fruit Bats, Elizabeth R. Dumont
Part III. Roosting Ecology and Population Biology
10. Social Population Structure in the Brown Long Eared Bat Plecotus Auritus, Tamsin M. Burland, Abigail C. Entwistle, Paul A. Racey
11. Relatedness, Life History and Social Behavior in the Long-Lived Bechstein's Bat Myotis Bechsteini, Gerald Kerth
12. Relatedness, Life History and Social Behavior in the Greater Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus ferrumequinum, Stephen J. Rossiter, Gareth Jones, Roger D. Ransome, Elizabeth M. Barrett
13. Population Genetic Structuring of Very Large Populations: The Brazilian Free-Tailed Bat Tadarida brasiliensis, Amy L. Russell, and Gary F. McCracken
14. Evolutionary Dynamics of the Short-Nosed Fruit Bat Jay F. Storz, Hari R. Bhat, J. Balasingh, P. Thiruchenthil Nathan, and Thomas H. Kunz
15. Conflicts and Strategies in the Harem-Polygynous Mating System of the Sac-winged Bat Saccopteryx bilineata, Christian C. Voight, Gerald Heckel, and Otto von Helversen
16. Flexibility and Specificity in Roosting Ecology of the Lesser Long-Eared Bat Chalinolobus tuberculatus from New Zealand, Colin F.J. O'Donnell and Jane A. Sedgeley