Deutsches Treffen für

Fledermausforschung 2020

10. bis 12. Januar 2020

Frauenwörth

Bild: Sönke von den Berg

German Bat Meeting 2020

Dear colleagues and guests!

It is our great pleasure to welcome you at the Benedictine Abbey Frauenwörth for the German Bat Meeting 2020.

The organizing committee Research group Acoustic and Functional Ecology Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen Holger Goerlitz Thejasvi Beleyur Nicole Drenkard Léna de Framond-Benard Antoniya Hubancheva Theresa Hügel Neetash Mysuru Chair of Zoology Technical University Munich, Freising Uwe Firzlaff Leonie Baier Stephen Hörpel Jan Pastyrik Department Neurobiology Ludwig Maximilians University, Martinsried Lutz Wiegrebe Ella Lattenkamp Eva Mardus Ravi Umadi

German Bat Meeting 2020

In Erinnerung an

Lutz Wiegrebe

† 29.11.2019

German Bat Meeting 2020

FRIDAY

15:00 – 18:00 ARRIVAL & REGISTRATION

18:00 – 19:00 DINNER

19:00 – 19:05 WELCOME

19:05 – 20:50 SESSION 1: BEHAVIOUR Chair: Mirjam Knörnschild

19:05 – 19:35 Ahana Fernandez (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)

Babbling, an extraordinary vocal practice behavior during ontogeny

19:35 – 19:50 Eva Mardus (LMU Martinsried)

The role of auditory feedback on the vocal development of normal-hearing and hearing-impaired Phyllostomus discolor

19:50 – 20:05 Sabine Schmidt (TiHo Hannover)

Stability of roosting patterns in a laboratory colony of Carollia perspicillata: neighbors matter!

20:05 – 20:20 Julia Weymann (TiHo Hannover)

Formation of social patterns in a newly assembled group of Sowell's Short Tailed Bats (Carollia sowelli)

20:20 – 20:35 Manuel Roeleke (Universität Potsdam)

Landscape structure influences social foraging behaviour in noctule bats

20:35 – 20:50 Shambhavi Chidambaram (HU Berlin)

How do nectar-feeding bats track a changing environment?

TIME TO BE GREGARIOUS

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SATURDAY

8:00 – 9:00 BREAKFAST

9:00 – 10:15 SESSION 2: NEUROBIOLOGY Chair: Uwe Firzlaff

9:00 – 9:30 Francisco García-Rosales (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

Processing of naturalistic acoustic streams in a fronto-auditory cortical circuit of the bat Carollia perspicillata

9:30 – 9:45 Luciana López-Jury (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

Neuroethology meets predictive coding: the bat brain has neural priors that favor echolocation processing

9:45 – 10:00 Eugenia González-Palomares (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

Mutual information and redundancy maps in the bat auditory midbrain in response to natural sound streams

10:00 – 10:15 Stephen Hörpel (TUM Freising)

An analysis of temporal integration in bat vocal communication

10:15 – 10:45 COFFEE BREAK

10:45 – 12:00 SESSION 3: PHYSIOLOGY Chair: Annette Denzinger

10:45 – 11:00 Stephanie Reher (Universität Hamburg)

Roosting outside the comfort zone – torpor at high ambient temperatures in a Malagasy bat

11:00 – 11:15 Nicolas Fasel (UNIL Lausanne)

Insights into tropical torpor used by Carollia perspicillata

11:15 – 11:30 Carolina Kordges (Philipps-Universität Marburg)

Are hibernation patterns of Noctule bats (Nyctalus noctula) in artificial winter roosts driven by ambient temperature?

11:30 – 11:45 Michael Walter (Universität Tübingen)

Energy intake and sugar concentration discrimination in the nectar-feeding bat Leptonycteris yerbabuenae

11:45 – 12:00 Jaap van Schaik (Universität Greifswald)

Bats, flies and haemosporidians: co-phylogeography of a host, a parasite and a pathogen

12:00– 13:30 LUNCH BREAK

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SATURDAY

13:30 – 15:45 SESSION 4: METHODOLOGY Chair: Stefan Greif

13:30 – 14:00 Simon Ripperger (Ohio State University)

New perspectives on bat behavior: highlights from proximity sensing in the wild

14:00 – 14:15 Anja Bergmann (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)

Non-invasive acoustic monitoring of swarming bats

14:15 – 14:30 Moritz Mälzer (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

Towards a radar-assisted bat fatality assessment at wind turbines: numerical and experimental results

14:30 – 14:45 SHORT BREAK

14:45 – 15:00 Klaus Hochradel (UMIT)

Handheld measurements of three-dimensional directivity patterns for playback experiments

15:00 – 15:15 Ravi Umadi

(LMU Martinsried) Receiver directionality in echolocating bats (Phyllostomus discolor): A novel reconstruction technique

15:15 – 15:30 Gebriella Krivek (Universität Greifswald)

Automated bat species identification from images using deep neural networks

15:30 – 15:45 Renate Rabenstein & Dagmar Stiefel (FI Senkenberg, VSW)

Lethal teeth anatomy in Pipistrellus – a single case? Radiological investigations in extant bats

16:00 – 18:00 POSTER SESSION with coffee & Glühwein

16:00– 17:00 Odd poster numbers

17:00 – 18:00 Even poster numbers

18:00 – 19:30 DINNER

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SATURDAY

19:30 MEMORIAL FOR LUTZ WIEGREBE

SHORT BREAK

20:00 – 20:45 SESSION 5: ECHOLOCATION Chair: Holger Goerlitz

20:00 – 20:15 Stefan Greif (Tel Aviv University)

Technological approaches to study sensory aspects of foraging behavior in wild bats

20:15 – 20:30 Laura Stidsholt (Aarhus Universitet)

Spatial and temporal sensory trade-offs in Myotis myotis bats echolocating in the wild

20:30 – 20:45 Léna de Framond (MPI für Ornithologie)

Do bats compensate for weather-induced variations in sound attenuation to maintain detection distance?

20:45 GET BATTY! Host: Ravi Umadi

Antoniya Hubancheva (MPI für Ornithologie)

The mating song of the katydid Ruspolia nitidula may jam bat sonar

Thejasvi Beleyur (MPI für Ornithologie)

Modelling active sensing in groups: (what) do bats hear in the cocktail party nightmare?

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SUNDAY

8:00 – 9:00 BREAKFAST

9:00 – 10:30 SESSION 6: CONSERVATION Chair: Christian Voigt

9:00 – 9:30 Christof Happ, Bruntje Lüdtke, Henrik Reers (UMIT, FrInaT, OekoFor)

Vorstellung des F+E Vorhabens "Umsetzung der Naturschutzforschung am Windtestfeld an Land"

9:30 – 9:45 Daniel Lewanzik (IZW Berlin)

WTimpact – teaming up with citizen scientists to investigate urban habitat use on large scale

9:45 – 10:00 Karl Kugelschafter (ChiroTEC)

Saisonale Aktivitätsverläufe von einheimischen Fledermäusen an ihren Winterquartieren

10:00 – 10:15 Andrea Schewe (Hochschule Anhalt)

New information about the distribution of the Western Barbastelle in Swabia (Bavaria) and findings concerning their behavior according to LED light

10:15 – 10:30 Tanja Straka (IZW Berlin)

A question of trust and beliefs? Understanding emotions and cognitions of interest groups involved in the green-green dilemma in Germany

10:30 – 11:00 COFFEE BREAK

11:00 – 12:00 SESSION 7: ECOLOGY Chair: Marco Tschapka

11:00 – 11:15 Ralph Simon (VU Amsterdam)

Echo-acoustic traits of moths in response to predation pressure by bats

11:15 – 11:30 Gloria Gessinger (Universität Ulm)

Catching aerial prey: the hunting behavior of Lonchorhina aurita (Phyllostomidae)

11:30 – 11:45 Thomas Hiller (Universität Ulm)

Bat – bat fly interactions in Central Panama: a network analysis

11:45 – 12:00 Marco Tschapka (Universität Ulm)

The masked seducers: Lek courtship behaviour in the Wrinkle-faced bat Centurio senex (Phyllostomidae)

12:00 – 13:30 LUNCH & FAREWELL

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POSTERS

(Odd numbers 16-17h, even numbers 17-18h)

Behaviour

#1 Claire Hermans Behavioral response of bats to light intensity variation

#2 Kseniia Kravchenko Migratory behaviour and demographic structure of bats under distribution shift

#3 Daniel Lewanzik Insectivorous bats integrate social information about species identity, conspecific activity and prey abundance to estimate cost–benefit ratio of interactions

#4 Calvin Mehl What changes movement patterns in open-space foraging bats?

#5 Theresa Schabacker Bat in a Maze - an in-situ assay of exploration behavior

Conservation

#6 Marcus Fritze With F.U.N. into the wild - Combining science and citizen’s education

#7 Angelika Meschede Long-term population trends in Bavarian bats – still on the rise?

#8 Christine Reusch Spatial behaviour of common Noctule bats in relation to wind turbines

Echolocation

#9 Leonie Baier Peeking through the foliage - Biosonar range resolution

#10 Johannes Fleischer Comparison of the echolocation behaviour of Rhinolophus pusillus and Hipposideros grandis when foraging for prey

#11 Ilias Foskolos Biosonar adjustments to masking in echolocating Daubenton’s bats

#12 Neetash Mysuru Quantifying changes in echolocation call parameters of free-flying horseshoe bat groups

#13 Pegah Negahdar Unplug my nose! – Nasal and oral call emission in Phyllostomid bats?

#14 Holger Goerlitz Behavioral responses of acuminate horseshoe bats to sexually dimorphic echolocation calls

#15 Diana Schöppler Echolocation and flight behavior of Hipposideros armiger catching fluttering insects

#16 Bernadette Wimmer Ortungsrufe von Myotis-Arten in unterirdischen Quartieren

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Ecology

#17 Rohit Chakravarty Functional Diversity and Community Structure of Bats along an Elevational Gradient in the Himalayas

#18 Patrick Cvecko Tent-roosting Bats and where to find them: Roost site selection of tent-roosting bats across a lowland rainforest island system in Panama

#19 Nicolas Fasel Penis morphology facilitates identification of cryptic African bat species

#20 Rabarison Hajatiana Microhabitat preferences of bats roosting in a multi-species assemblage in a hot cave

#21 Antoniya Hubancheva Bushcrickets may adapt bat predator avoidance behaviour to predator threat levels and age

#22 Theresa Hügel What bats should know to catch a moth

#23 Andrea Koplitz-Weißgerber

Fluctuating activity of Myotis and Pipistrellus bats in stables

#24 Eva Kriner Stables as foraging habitats of bats

#25 Sina Remmers Ready for climate change? The importance of adaptive thermoregulatory flexibility for Malagasy bats

#26 Olga Timofieieva Do differences in ecological strategies influence heavy metals accumulation in two European bat species

Neurobiology

#27 Sophie Holtz & Maria Geesdorf

Mapping vocalization-related immediate early gene expression in the brain of Seba’s short-tailed fruit bat, Carollia perspicillata

#28 Jan Pastyrik Stimulus specific adaptation in bat echolocation

#29 Kristin Weineck (pres. Julio Hechavarria)

Neural oscillations in the fronto-striatal network predict vocal output in bats

#30 Johannes Wetekam Auditory brainstem responses in the bat Carollia perspicillata: Threshold calculation and analysis of responses to amplitude modulated stimuli.

Physiology

#31 Ella Lattenkamp Comparative hearing in eleven neotropical bat species

#32 Janine Mengede Switching off bat genes to study vocal learning

#33 Michael Speidel Drag me UP! Influence of surface tension and viscosity on the feeding performance of the nectar-feeding bat Glossophaga soricina

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PARTICIPANTS

Bach Petra petrabach@bach-freilandforschung.de

Baier Leonie anneleoniebaier@posteo.de

Beleyur Thejasvi tbeleyur@orn.mpg.de

Bergmann Anja anja.bergmann@mfn.berlin

Chakravarty Rohit chakravarty@izw-berlin.de

Chidambaram Shambhavi shambhavic21@gmail.com

Cvecko Patrick Patrick.Cvecko@uni-ulm.de

de Framond Léna lframond@orn.mpg.de

Denzinger Annette annette.denzinger@uni-tuebingen.de

Fasel Nicolas fasel.nicolas@gmail.com

Fernandez Ahana Aurora fernandez.aurora.ahana@gmail.com

Fichera Gaetano gadfichera@gmail.com

Firzlaff Uwe uwe.firzlaff@wzw.tum.de

Fleischer Johannes johannes.fleischer@student.uni-tuebingen.de

Fleischmann Daniela daniela.fleischmann@gmx.net

Foskolos Ilias ilias.foskolos@bios.au.dk

Fritze Marcus marcus_fritze@gmx.de

Frohn Fabian frohn@ecoobs.de

García-Rosales Francisco garciarosales@bio.uni-frankfurt.de

Geesdorf Maria Nadine mgeesdorf@zedat.fu-berlin.de

Gerding Guido g.gerding@buero-echolot.de

Gessinger Gloria gloria.gessinger@uni-ulm.de

Goerlitz Holger R hgoerlitz@orn.mpg.de

Gonzalez-Palomares Eugenia GonzalezPalomares@bio.uni-frankfurt.de

Greif Stefan stefan.greif@gmail.com

Grosche Leo l.grosche@me.com

Hajatiana Rabarison tianarabari26@gmail.com

Happ Christof christof.happ@umit.at

Hechavarria Julio C. hechavarria@bio.uni-frankfurt.de

Heinrich Melina melseven2002@yahoo.de

Hentrich Myriam m.hentrich@buero-echolot.de

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Hermans Claire c.hermans@nioo.knaw.nl

Hiller Thomas thomas.hiller@uni-ulm.de

Hochradel Klaus klaus.hochradel@umit.at

Hoffmann Susanne shoffmann@orn.mpg.de

Holtz Sophie holtz.sophie@googlemail.com

Hörpel Stephen Gareth stephen.hoerpel@tum.de

Hubancheva Antoniya ahubancheva@orn.mpg.de

Hügel Theresa thuegel@orn.mpg.de

Jakobsen Lasse lasse@biology.sdu.dk

Jasper Barbara bjasper@posteo.de

Kalemera Loren Lavious mjuni42@gmail.com

Kaipf Ingrid ingrid.kaipf@uni-tuebingen.de

Knörnschild Mirjam mirjam.knoernschild@gmail.com

Koplitz-Weißgerber Andrea a.koplitz-weissgerber@outlook.com

Kordges Carolina kordges@posteo.de

Kravchenko Kseniia shusha.kravcheneo@gmail.com

Kriner Eva e.kriner@online.de

Krivek Gabriella krivek.g@gmail.com

Krüger Frauke krueger.frauke@hamannundschulte.de

Kugelschafter Karl Kugelschafter@web.de

Kugler Kathi kkugler@mathworks.com

Kuhnert Christine christinekuhnert@aol.de

Lass Joanna joanna_lass@posteo.de

Lattenkamp Ella Zoe ella.lattenkamp@evobio.eu

Lewanzik Daniel daniel.lewanzik@gmx.de

Lopez Jury Luciana Francisca lopezjury@bio.uni-frankfurt.de

Lüdtke Bruntje luedtke@frinat.de

Mälzer Moritz maelzer@physik.uni-frankfurt.de

Mardus Eva Sophie E.Mardus@campus.lmu.de

Mehl Calvin mehl@izw-berlin.de

Meier Sandra s.meier@buero-echolot.de

Meier Frauke f.meier@buero-echolot.de

Meiswinkel Brigitte magnolia1704@gmx.de

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Melber Markus markus.melber@bvfledermaus.de

Mengede Janine janine.mengede@mpi.nl

Meschede Angelika angelika.meschede@gmail.com

Mysuru Neetash nmysuru@orn.mpg.de

Nagy Martina Martina.Nagy@mfn.berlin

Negahdar Pegah pegah.negahdar@uni-ulm.de

Pastyrik Jan jan.pastyrik@tum.de

Paul Ana Ailin aani.paul@hotmail.com

Pick Doreen D.Pick@ifaoe.de

Rabenstein Renate renate.rabenstein@senckenberg.de

Reher Stephanie stephanie.reher@uni-hamburg.de

Remmers Sina sina.remmers@t-online.de

Reusch Christine reusch@izw-berlin.de

Ripperger Simon simon.ripperger@gmail.com

Roeleke Manuel roeleke@uni-potsdam.de

Schabacker Theresa theresa.schabacker@gmail.com

Schewe Andrea andrea.schewe@posteo.de

Schmidt Sabine Elisabeth sabine.schmidt@tiho-hannover.de

Schnitzler Hans-Ulrich hans-ulrich.schnitzler@uni-tuebingen.de

Scholl Julia julia@famscholl.de

Schöppler Diana diana.schoeppler@uni-tuebingen.de

Schörnich Sven schoernich@bio.lmu.de

Seibert Anna-Maria anni_seibert@hotmail.com

Simon Ralph ralph.simon@vu.nl

Speidel Michael michael.speidel@uni-ulm.de

Stephan Sylvia sylviastephan@web.de

Stidsholt Laura laura.stidsholt@bios.au.dk

Stiefel Dagmar d.stiefel@vswffm.de

Straka Tanja tanja.straka@tu-berlin.de

Timofieieva Olga olgatimofeyeva1997@gmail.com

Tschapka Marco marco.tschapka@uni-ulm.de

Uebel Astrid Saermark 201509335@post.au.dk

Umadi Ravi umadi@bio.lmu.de

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van Schaik Jaap jaapvanschaik@gmail.com

Voigt Christian voigt@izw-berlin.de

Voigt-Heucke Silke voigt.heucke@googlemail.com

Walter Michael m.walter@uni-tuebingen.de

Wetekam Johannes johannes.wetekam@web.de

Weymann Julia julia.weymann@gmx.de

Wimmer Bernadette bernadette.wimmer@lra-gap.de