Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

Using bird flight to sense fine-scale complex atmospheric flows

Publications of Jakob Fahr

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Journal Article (52)

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Hurme, E.; Fahr, J.; Eric-Moise, B. F.; Hash, C. T.; O'Mara, M. T.; Richter, H.; Tanshi, I.; Webala, P. W.; Weber, N.; Wikelski, M. et al.; Dechmann, D. K. N.; Eidolon Monitoring Network: Fruit bat migration matches green wave in seasonal landscapes. Functional Ecology 36 (8), pp. 2043 - 2055 (2022)

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Calderon-Capote, M. C.; Dechmann, D. K. N.; Fahr, J.; Wikelski, M.; Kays, R.; O'Mara, M. T.: Foraging movements are density-independent among straw-coloured fruit bats. Royal Society Open Science 7 (5), 200274 (2020)

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Costa, T. D.; Santos, C. D.; Rainho, A.; Abedi-Lartey, M.; Fahr, J.; Wikelski, M.; Dechmann, D. K. N.: Assessing roost disturbance of straw-coloured fruit bats (Eidolon helvum) through tri-axial acceleration. PLoS One 15 (11), e0242662 (2020)

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O'Mara, M. T.; Scharf, A. K.; Fahr, J.; Abedi-Lartey, M.; Wikelski, M.; Dechmann, D. K. N.; Safi, K.: Overall dynamic body acceleration in straw-colored fruit bats increases in headwinds but not with airspeed. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7, 200 (2019)

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van Toor, M. L.; O'Mara, M. T.; Abedi-Lartey, M.; Wikelski, M.; Fahr, J.; Dechmann, D. K. N.: Linking colony size with quantitative estimates of ecosystem services of African fruit bats. Current Biology 29 (7), pp. R225 - R240 (2019)

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Herkt, K. M. B.; Skidmore, A. K.; Fahr, J.: Macroecological conclusions based on IUCN expert maps: A call for caution. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26 (8), pp. 930 - 941 (2017)

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Nowak, K.; Fahr, J.; Weber, N.; Lübke-Becker, A.; Semmler, T.; Weiss, S.; Mombouli, J.-V.; Wieler, L. H.; Guenther, S.; Leendertz, F. H. et al.; Ewers, C.: Highly diverse and antimicrobial susceptible Escherichia coli display a naïve bacterial population in fruit bats from the Republic of Congo. PLoS One 12 (7), e0178146 (2017)

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Abedi-Lartey, M.; Dechmann, D. K. N.; Wikelski, M.; Scharf, A. K.; Fahr, J.: Long-distance seed dispersal by straw-coloured fruit bats varies by season and landscape. Global Ecology and Conservation 7, pp. 12 - 24 (2016)

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Herkt, K. M. B.; Barnikel, G.; Skidmore, A. K.; Fahr, J.: A high-resolution model of bat diversity and endemism for continental Africa. Ecological Modelling 320, pp. 9 - 28 (2016)

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Fahr, J.; Abedi-Lartey, M.; Esch, T.; Machwitz, M.; Suu-Ire, R.; Wikelski, M.; Dechmann, D. K. N.: Pronounced seasonal changes in the movement ecology of a highly gregarious central-place forager, the african straw-coloured fruit bat (Eidolon helvum). PLoS One 10 (10), e0138985 (2015)

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Meyer, C. F. J.; Aguiar, L. M. S.; Aguirre, L. F.; Baumgarten, J.; Clarke, F. M.; Cosson, J.-F.; Villegas, S. E.; Fahr, J.; Faria, D.; Furey, N. et al.; Henry, M.; Jenkins, R. K. B.; Kunz, T. H.; MacSwiney Gonzalez, M. C.; Moya, I.; Pons, J.-M.; Racey, P. A.; Rex, K.; Sampaio, E. M.; Stoner, K. E.; Voigt, C. C.; von Staden, D.; Weise, C. D.; Kalko, E. K. V.: Species undersampling in tropical bat surveys: Effects on emerging biodiversity patterns. Journal of Animal Ecology 84 (1), pp. 113 - 123 (2015)

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Saez, A. M.; Weiss, S.; Nowak, K.; Lapeyre, V.; Zimmermann, F.; Duex, A.; Kuehl, H. S.; Kaba, M.; Regnaut, S.; Merkel, K. et al.; Sachse, A.; Thiesen, U.; Villanyi, L.; Boesch, C.; Dabrowski, P. W.; Radonic, A.; Nitsche, A.; Leendertz, S. A. J.; Petterson, S.; Becker, S.; Kraehling, V.; Couacy-Hymann, E.; Akoua-Koffi, C.; Weber, N.; Schaade, L.; Fahr, J.; Borchert, M.; Gogarten, J. F.; Calvignac-Spencer, S.; Leendertz, F. H.: Investigating the zoonotic origin of the West African Ebola epidemic. Embo Molecular Medicine 7 (1), pp. 17 - 23 (2015)

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Weber, N.; Duengkae, P.; Fahr, J.; Dechmann, D. K. N.; Phengsakul, P.; Khumbucha, W.; Siriaroonrat, B.; Wacharapluesadee, S.; Maneeorn, P.; Wikelski, M. et al.; Newman, S.: High-resolution GPS tracking of Lyle's flying fox between temples and orchards in central Thailand. Journal of Wildlife Management 79 (6), pp. 957 - 968 (2015)

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Sapir, N.; Horvitz, N.; Dechmann, D. K. N.; Fahr, J.; Wikelski, M.: Commuting fruit bats beneficially modulate their flight in relation to wind. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281 (1782), 20140018 (2014)

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Stechert, C.; Kolb, M.; Bahadir, M.; Djossa, B. A.; Fahr, J.: Insecticide residues in bats along a land use-gradient dominated by cotton cultivation in northern Benin, West Africa. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 21 (14), pp. 8812 - 8821 (2014)

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Gembu Tungaluna, G.-C.; Van Cakenberghe, V.; Musaba Akawa, P.; Dudu Akaibe, B.; Verheyen, E.; De Vree, F.; Fahr, J.: Rediscovery of Glauconycteris superba Hayman, 1939 (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) after 40 years at Mbiye Island, Democratic Republic of the Congo. European Journal of Taxonomy (42), pp. 1 - 18 (2013)

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Kerbis Peterhans, J. C.; Fahr, J.; Huhndorf, M. H.; Kaleme, P.; Plumptre, A. J.; Marks, B. D.; Kizungu, R.: Bats (Chiroptera) from the Albertine Rift, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, with the description of two new species of the Rhinolophus maclaudi group. Bonn zoological Bulletin 62 (2), pp. 186 - 202 (2013)

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Schaer, J.; Perkins, S. L.; Decher, J.; Leendertz, F. H.; Fahr, J.; Weber, N.; Matuschewski, K.: High diversity of West African bat malaria parasites and a tight link with rodent Plasmodium taxa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 110 (43), pp. 17415 - 17419 (2013)

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Curran, M.; Kopp, M.; Beck, J.; Fahr, J.: Species diversity of bats along an altitudinal gradient on Mount Mulanje, southern Malawi. Journal of Tropical Ecology 28 (3), pp. 243 - 253 (2012)

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Gschweng, M.; Kalko, E. K. V.; Berthold, P.; Fiedler, W.; Fahr, J.: Multi-temporal distribution modelling with satellite tracking data: Predicting responses of a long-distance migrant to changing environmental conditions. Journal of Applied Ecology 49 (4), pp. 803 - 813 (2012)

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Weiss, S.; Nowak, K.; Fahr, J.; Wibbelt, G.; Mombouli, J.-V.; Parra, H. J.; Wolfe, N. D.; Schneider, B. S.; Leendertz, F. H.: Henipavirus-related sequences in fruit bat bushmeat, Republic of Congo. Emerging Infectious Diseases 18 (9), pp. 1536 - 1537 (2012)

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Weiss, S.; Witkowski, P. T.; Auste, B.; Nowak, K.; Weber, N.; Fahr, J.; Mombouli, J.-V.; Wolfe, N. D.; Drexler, J. F.; Drosten, C. et al.; Klempa, B.; Leenderts, F. H.; Kruger, D. H.: Hantavirus in bat, Sierra Leone. Emerging Infectious Diseases 18 (1), pp. 159 - 161 (2012)

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Wood, J. L. N.; Leach, M.; Waldman, L.; MacGregor, H.; Fooks, A. R.; Jones, K. E.; Restif, O.; Dechmann, D. K. N.; Hayman, D. T. S.; Baker, K. S. et al.; Peel, A. J.; Kamins, A. O.; Fahr, J.; Ntiamoa-Baidu, Y.; Suu-Ire, R.; Breiman, R. F.; Epstein, J. H.; Field, H. E.; Cunningham, A. A.: A framework for the study of zoonotic disease emergence and its drivers: Spillover of bat pathogens as a case study. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 367 (1604), pp. 2881 - 2892 (2012)

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Fahr, J.; Kalko, E. K. V.: Biome transitions as centres of diversity: Habitat heterogeneity and diversity patterns of West African bat assemblages across spatial scales. Ecography 34 (2), pp. 177 - 195 (2011)

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Meyer, C. F. J.; Aguiar, L. M. S.; Aguirre, L. F.; Baumgarten, J.; Clarke, F. M.; Cosson, J.-F.; Villegas, S. E.; Fahr, J.; Faria, D.; Furey, N. et al.; Henry, M.; Hodgkison, R.; Jenkins, R. K. B.; Jung, K. G.; Kingston, T.; Kunz, T. H.; MacSwiney, M. C.; Moya, I.; Patterson, B. D.; Pons, J.-M.; Racey, P. A.; Rex, K.; Sampaio, E. M.; Solari, S.; Stoner, K. E.; Voigt, C. C.; von Staden, D.; Weise, C. D.; Kalko, E. K. V.: Accounting for detectability improves estimates of species richness in tropical bat surveys. Journal of Applied Ecology 48 (3), pp. 777 - 787 (2011)

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Decher, J.; Norris, R. W.; Fahr, J.: Small mammal survey in the upper Seli River valley, Sierra Leone. Mammalia 74 (2), pp. 163 - 176 (2010)

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Meyer, C. F. J.; Aguiar, L. M. S.; Aguirre, L. F.; Baumgarten, J.; Clarke, F. M.; Cosson, J.-F.; Villegas, S. E.; Fahr, J.; Faria, D.; Furey, N. et al.; Henry, M.; Hodgkison, R.; Jenkins, R. K. B.; Jung, K. G.; Kingston, T.; Kunz, T. H.; Cristina MacSwiney G, M.; Moya, I.; Pons, J.-M.; Racey, P. A.; Rex, K.; Sampaio, E. M.; Stoner, K. E.; Voigt, C. C.; von Staden, D.; Weise, C. D.; Kalko, E. K. V.: Long-term monitoring of tropical bats for anthropogenic impact assessment: Gauging the statistical power to detect population change. Biological Conservation 143 (11), pp. 2797 - 2807 (2010)

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Weber, N.; Kalko, E. K. V.; Fahr, J.: A first assessment of home range and foraging behaviour of the African long-tongued bat Megaloglossus woermanni (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) in a heterogeneous landscape within the Lama Forest Reserve, Benin. Acta Chiropterologica 11 (2), pp. 317 - 329 (2009)

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Djossa, B. A.; Fahr, J.; Kalko, E. K. V.; Sinsin, B. A.: Fruit selection and effects of seed handling by flying foxes on germination rates of shea trees, a key resource in northern Benin, West Africa. Ecotropica (Bonn) 14 (1), pp. 37 - 48 (2008)

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Djossa, B. A.; Fahr, J.; Wiegand, T.; Ayihouenou, B. E.; Kalko, E. K. V.; Sinsin, B. A.: Land use impact on Vitellaria paradoxa C. F. Gaerten. stand structure and distribution patterns: A comparison of Biosphere Reserve of Pendjari in Atacora district in Benin. Agroforestry Systems 72 (3), pp. 205 - 220 (2008)

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Djossa, B. A.; Sinsin, B. A.; Kalko, E. K. V.; Fahr, J.: Inventory of bat species of Niaouli Forest, Benin, and its bearing on the significance of the Dahomey Gap as a zoogeographic barrier. African Bat Conservation News 15, pp. 4 - 6 (2008)

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Lamb, J. M.; Ralph, T. M. C.; Goodman, S. M.; Bogdanowicz, W.; Fahr, J.; Gajewska, M.; Bates, P. J. J.; Eger, J.; Benda, P.; Taylor, P. J.: Phylogeography and predicted distribution of African-Arabian and Malagasy populations of giant mastiff bats, Otomops spp. (Chiroptera: Molossidae). Acta Chiropterologica 10 (1), pp. 21 - 40 (2008)

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Decher, J.; Fahr, J.: A conservation assessment of bats (Chiroptera) of Draw River, Boi-Tano, and Krokosua Hills Forest Reserves in the Western Region of Ghana [for 2005]. Myotis 43, pp. 5 - 30 (2007)

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Fahr, J.: Revised checklist of bat species recorded from Liberia (modified from Koopman et al. 1995). RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment 44, pp. 103 - 105 (2007)

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Fahr, J.: Additional bat species previously recorded from localities near RAP survey sites. RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment 44, p. 106 (2007)

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Goodman, S. M.; Ryan, K. E.; Maminirina, C. P.; Fahr, J.; Christidis, L.; Appleton, B.: Specific status of populations on Madagascar referred to Miniopterus fraterculus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae), with description of a new species. Journal of Mammalogy 88 (5), pp. 1216 - 1229 (2007)

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Monadjem, A.; Fahr, J.: Gazetteer of localities for small mammal surveys. RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment 44, p. 101 (2007)

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Monadjem, A.; Fahr, J.: Shrews and rodents collected during the RAP survey and deposited in the collections of the Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Bonn (ZFMK). RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment 44, p. 102 (2007)

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Monadjem, A.; Taylor, P.; Cotteri, F. P. D. W.; Kityo, R.; Fahr, J.: Conservation status of bats in sub-Saharan Africa. Bat Research News 48 (4), p. 267 (2007)

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Volleth, M.; Heller, K.-G.; Fahr, J.: Phylogenetic relationships of three "Nycticeiini" genera (Vespertilionidae, Chiroptera, Mammalia) as revealed by karyological analysis. Mammalian Biology 71 (1), pp. 1 - 12 (2006)

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Decher, J.; Fahr, J.: Hipposideros cyclops. Mammalian Species (763), pp. 1 - 7 (2005)

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Decher, J.; Fahr, J.: A conservation assessment of bats (Chiroptera) of Draw River, Boi-Tano, and Krokosua Hills Forest Reserves in the Western Region of Ghana. Myotis 43, pp. 5 - 30 (2005)

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Meyer, C. F. J.; Schwarz, C. J.; Fahr, J.: Activity patterns and habitat preferences of insectivorous bats in a West African forest-savanna mosaic. Journal of Tropical Ecology 20, pp. 397 - 407 (2004)

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Beaucournu, J.-C.; Fahr, J.: Notes sur les Ischnopsyllinae du Continent Africain. IV: Quelques Lagaropsylla Jordan & Rothschild 1921 de Côte d’Ivoire; description de L. senckenbergiana n. sp. (Insecta: Siphonaptera: Ischnopsyllidae). Senckenbergina Biologica 82 (1-2), pp. 157 - 162 (2003)

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Fahr, J.; Ebigbo, N. M.: A conservation assessment of the bats of the Simandou Range, Guinea, with the first record of Myotis welwitschii (Gray, 1866) from West Africa. Acta Chiropterologica 5 (1), pp. 125 - 141 (2003)

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Fahr, J.; Vierhaus, H.; Hutterer, R.; Kock, D.: A revision of the Rhinolophus maclaudi species group with the description of a new species from West Africa (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae). Myotis 40, pp. 95 - 126 (2002)

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Kock, D.; Barnett, L.; Fahr, J.; Emms, C.: On a collection of bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from The Gambia. Acta Chiropterologica 4 (1), pp. 77 - 97 (2002)

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Fahr, J.: A fresh look at Afrotropical bat assemblages: Combining different sampling techniques and spatial scales. Bat Research News 42 (3), p. 98 (2001)

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Rödel, M.-O.; Ernst, R.; Leistner, G.; Fahr, J.: Zum Totstellverhalten einiger westafrikanischer Frösche. Salamandra 36 (2), pp. 125 - 130 (2000)

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Fahr, J.: Die Sandlaufkäfer (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) des Comoé-Nationalparks, Elfenbeinküste: Faunistik, Zoogeographie und Ökologie. Bonner zoologische Beiträge 47 (3-4), pp. 321 - 343 (1998)

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