Results of the work of the Kyiv Bat contact-centre in 2012–2015

Godlevska, Lena

doi:10.15407/ptt2015.13.011

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“…Some data were received from calls from the public to the contact center being kept by the author in 2009-2013 (Godlevska 2012). Calls from the public reporting noisy bat colonies, noctule bats on the ground, or bats flying into rooms occasionally led to discovery of winter roosts of the species.…”

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Northward expansion of the winter range of Nyctalus noctula (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in Eastern Europe

Godlevska¹

2015

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Before 1990, mass wintering of the noctule bat (Nyctalus noctula) in Ukraine was known from the Ukrainian Transcarpathia and the south of the country. For the rest of Ukraine, as for other regions of Europe to the north and the northeast, the species was considered a migratory one. Today, the noctule bat is known in winter for 23 (of 25) administrative provinces of Ukraine, and winter colonies have been recorded in most of them. In Ukraine, N. noctula is a seasonal epilithic species, which hibernates mostly in multi-storey buildings serving as cliff-like structures. The retrospective analysis of bat data from Ukraine and adjacent countries shows that new records refer to the expansion of the species' winter range, which occurred during the last decades. The border of the winter range of N. noctula in Eastern Europe now lies at least 500-600 km northward than previously assumed. The analysis of the air temperature datasets demonstrates that warming of winters cannot be the only factor determining this process. Mass appearance of high buildings and roosts associated with them is thought to be an important condition driving the expansion.

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“…People from many Ukrainian cities call the bat contact center to report N. noctula every winter. In 2009-2012, there were more calls about this species than any other (Godlevska 2012).…”

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Northward expansion of the winter range of Nyctalus noctula (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in Eastern Europe

Godlevska¹

2015

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“…Data on bat records were amassed during 2005-2014 and used regularly in studies on the composition and changes of the fauna (e.g., Zagorodniuk, Korobchenko, 2008;Godlevska, 2012;Rebrov, 2014;Godlevska, 2015).…”

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“…Most of the records (about 10) are from Luhansk, mostly from the central part of the city, and two other records from Siverodonetsk. In particular, in Siverodonetsk one migration cluster was discovered in an empty apartment on 11 August 2013 (Zagorodniuk, Rebrov, 2014) and two autumnwinter findings on the ground near four-storey buildings: 1 specimen on 25 February 2011 and 5 specimens on 10 November 2011 (Godlevska, 2012).…”

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A game against natural selection? Hibernation of migratory bat species in their summering range in Eastern Ukraine

Загороднюк¹

2018

Theriol. Ukr.

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A game against natural selection? Hibernation of migratory bat species in their summering range in Eastern Ukraine.-I. Zagorodniuk.-A series of new findings of migratory bat species that in recent years formed wintering groups in the region are described. Bats were found in buildings within human settlements in all cases. Descriptions of new autumn and winter records of Nyctalus noctula in Gorlovka and Rubizhne, Vespertilio murinus in Luhansk, Alchevsk and Donetsk, and Pipistrellus cf. pygmaeus in Mariupol are presented. These findings are considered as further evidence of formation synanthropic bat communities in eastern Ukraine and expand the geographical boundaries of the known wintering range of these migratory species within Ukraine. Similar cases are rare so far, although they indicate new changes that may soon become regular. Cases of wintering are considered as "trial of forces" of a part of the population in the context of trading-off the "cost of migration" for the "cost of hibernation" under conditions of global warming as well as of improving wintering conditions in the region due to various artificial shelters, mainly in cities. K e y w o r d s : bats, Vespertilionini, hibernation, Eastern Ukraine, migration, evolution. Гра проти природного добору? Випадки зимівлі видів-мігрантів кажанів в їхньому ареалі літування на сході України.-І. Загороднюк.-Описано серію нових знахідок видів, що є мігрантами в регіоні, проте останніми роками формують зимівельні групи. В усіх випадках кажанів виявлено в населених пунктах, в житлових приміщеннях. Наведено відомості про нові осінні та зимові знахідки Nyctalus noctula в Горлівці та Рубіжному, Vespertilio murinus в Луганську, Алчевську та Донецьку, Pipistrellus cf. pygmaeus в Маріуполі. Ці знахідки розглядаються як свідчення подальшого процесу формування синантропних угруповань кажанів на сході України і розширюють географічні межі відомого зимового ареалу цих видів-мігрантів в межах України. Поки подібні випадки є поодинокими, проте вони є індикаторами нових змін, які дуже скоро можуть стати закономірними. Такі випадки розглядаються як «проба сил» у частини популяції замінити «ціну міграції» на «ціну зимівлі» в умовах глобального потепління клімату і покращення умов зимівлі на місці за рахунок різноманітних штучних сховищ, зокрема й у містах. К л ю ч ов і слова: кажани, Vespertilionini, зимівля, східна Україна, міграція, еволюція.

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Data on the bat fauna of the Northern Black Sea Region based on results of the work of bat contact centres

Панченко¹,

Godlevska²

2018

Theriol. Ukr.

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Data on the bat fauna of the Northern Black Sea Region based on results of the work of bat contact centres.-P. Panchenko, L. Godlevska.-During 2009-2018, 201 calls were received by the Odesa contact centre, OCC (n = 174, in 143 of them bat species was identified) and the Kyiv contact centre, KCC, from the Northern Black Sea Region (n = 27; 10, with an identified species). The majority of calls (94 %) to the OCC came from Odesa region. The number of calls and its increase in time confirms the demand for bat contact centres, especially regional ones, and their role as an instrument of fauna research and monitoring, in particular in urban landscapes. The majority of calls with identified species obtained from southwestern Ukraine (Odesa, Mykolayiv and Kherson regions) dealt with four species: Pipistrellus kuhlii (34 %), Nyctalus noctula (23 %), Eptesicus serotinus (21 %), and Vespertilio murinus (13 %). In addition, two more species were recorded: Pipistrellus nathusii and Plecotus austriacus (6 and 3 %, respectively). For the first time, in Odesa region P. nathusii was recorded in winter. Repeated winter records of this species are evidence of its wintering in Odesa region. K e y w o r d s : bats, fauna, monitoring, contact centres, Northern Black Sea Region, Ukraine.

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Results of the work of the Kyiv Bat contact-centre in 2012–2015

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Northward expansion of the winter range of Nyctalus noctula (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in Eastern Europe

Northward expansion of the winter range of Nyctalus noctula (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in Eastern Europe

A game against natural selection? Hibernation of migratory bat species in their summering range in Eastern Ukraine

Data on the bat fauna of the Northern Black Sea Region based on results of the work of bat contact centres

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