Publications of Dina K. N. Dechmann

Dechmann, D. K. N.; Wikelski, M.; Varga, K.; Yohannes, E.; Fiedler, W.; Safi, K.; Burkhard, W.-D.; O'Mara, M. T.: Tracking post-hibernation behavior and early migration does not reveal the expected sex-differences in a "female-migrating'' bat. PLoS One 9 (12), e114810 (2014)

O'Mara, M. T.; Dechmann, D. K. N.; Page, R. A.: Frugivorous bats evaluate the quality of social information when choosing novel foods. Behavioral Ecology 25 (5), pp. 1233 - 1239 (2014)

Santos, C. D.; Neupert, S.; Lipp, H.-P.; Wikelski, M.; Dechmann, D. K. N.: Temporal and contextual consistency of leadership in homing pigeon flocks. PLoS One 9 (7), e102771 (2014)

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)

O'Mara, M. T.; Wikelski, M.; Dechmann, D. K. N.: 50 years of bat tracking: Device attachment and future directions. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 5 (4), pp. 311 - 319 (2014)

De Jong, C.; Field, H.; Tagtag, A.; Hughes, T.; Dechmann, D. K. N.; Jayme, S.; Epstein, J. H.; Smith, C.; Santos, I.; Catbagan, D. et al.; Lim, M.; Benigno, C.; Daszak, P.; Newman, S.: Foraging behaviour and landscape utilisation by the endangered Golden-Crowned Flying Fox (Acerodon jubatus), the Philippines. PLoS One 8 (11), e79665 (2013)

Dechmann, D. K. N.; Wikelski, M.; van Noordwijk, H. J.; Voigt, C. C.; Voigt-Heucke, S. L.: Metabolic costs of echolocation in a non-foraging context support a role for echolocation. Frontiers in Integrative Physiology 4, 66 (2013)

Fornoff, F.; Dechmann, D. K. N.; Wikelski, M.: Observation of movement and activity via radio-telemetry reveals diurnal behavior of the neotropical katydid philophyllia ingens (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Ecotropica 18 (1), pp. 27 - 34 (2012)

Schad, J.; Dechmann, D. K. N.; Voigt, C. C.; Sommer, S.: Evidence for the "Good Genes" Model: Association of MHC class II DRB alleles with ectoparasitism and reproductive state in the neotropical lesser bulldog bat, Noctilio albiventris. PLoS One 7 (5), e37101 (2012)

Schad, J.; Voigt, C. C.; Greiner, S.; Dechmann, D. K. N.; Sommer, S.: Independent evolution of functional MHC class II DRB genes in New World bat species. Immunogenetics 64 (7), pp. 535 - 547 (2012)

Smaers, J. B.; Dechmann, D. K. N.; Goswami, A.; Soligo, C.; Safi, K.: Comparative analyses of evolutionary rates reveal different pathways to encephalization in bats, carnivorans, and primates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109 (44), pp. 18006 - 18011 (2012)

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)

Dechmann, D. K. N.; Ehret, S.; Gaub, A.; Kranstauber, B.; Wikelski, M.: Low metabolism in a tropical bat from lowland Panama measured using heart rate telemetry: An unexpected life in the slow lane. The Journal of Experimental Biology 214 (21), pp. 3605 - 3612 (2011)

Schad, J.; Dechmann, D. K. N.; Voigt, C. C.; Sommer, S.: MHC class II DRB diversity, selection pattern and population structure in a neotropical bat species, Noctilio albiventris. Heredity 107 (2), pp. 115 - 126 (2011)

Dechmann, D. K. N.; Kranstauber, B.; Gibbs, D.; Wikelski, M.: Group hunting - A reason for sociality in molossid bats? PLoS One 5 (2), e9012 (2010)

Voigt, C. C.; Soergel , K.; Dechmann, D. K. N.: Refueling while flying: Foraging bats combust food rapidly and directly to power flight. Ecology 91 (10), pp. 2908 - 2917 (2010)

Voigt-Heucke, S. L.; Taborsky, M.; Dechmann, D. K. N.: A dual function of echolocation: Bats use echolocation calls to identify familiar and unfamiliar individuals. Animal Behaviour 80 (1), pp. 59 - 67 (2010)

Dechmann, D. K. N.; Heucke, S. L.; Giuggioli, L.; Safi, K.; Voigt, C. C.; Wikelski, M.: Experimental evidence for group hunting via eavesdropping in echolocating bats. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 276 (1668), pp. 2721 - 2728 (2009)

Dechmann, D. K. N.; John, L.; Noventa, T.; Voigt, C. C.: Polymorphic microsatellites for the lesser bulldog bat (Noctilio albiventris) cross-amplify with close and distant relatives. Conservation Genetics Resources 1, pp. 167 - 170 (2009)

Dechmann, D. K. N.; Safi, K.: Comparative studies of brain evolution: A critical insight from the Chiroptera. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 84 (1), pp. 161 - 172 (2009)