Flying high-assessing the use of the aerosphere by bats

Abstract

We would like to thank the symposium organizers, Tom Kunz and Nickolay Hristov, for the invitation to participate in the SICB Symposium ``Aeroecology: Probing and Modeling the Aerosphere-The Next Frontier''. We further thank Brock Fenton and an anonymous reviewer for helpful comments on an earlier version of the manuscript and the many people who have contributed to the studies of bats at STRI, in particular Larissa Albrecht, Kirsten Jung, and Moritz Weinbeer. Financial support from several funding agencies is acknowledged, in particular from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and Smithsonian Trust Funds to EKV Kalko and the DAAD to Christoph Meyer and Kirsten Jung.