Tracking Results
Open-access tracking data
Explore our tracking data on movebank.org and click on Data > Map.
These studies range from high-resolution data on foraging behavior to long-term tracking of migration.
Please contact us if you intend to use these data for publication.
Publications
Calderón-Capote, M. C., Dechmann, D. K., Fahr, J., Wikelski, M., Kays, R., & O'Mara, M. T. (2020). Foraging movements are density-independent among straw-coloured fruit bats. Royal Society Open Science, 7(5), 200274.
O'Mara, M. T., Scharf, A. K., Fahr, J., Abedi-Lartey, M., Wikelski, M., Dechmann, D. K. N., & Safi, K. (2019). Overall dynamic body acceleration in straw-coloured fruit bats increases in headwinds but not with airspeed. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7, 200.
van Toor, M. L., O’Mara, M. T., Abedi-Lartey, M., Wikelski, M., Fahr, J., & Dechmann, D. K. (2019). Linking colony size with quantitative estimates of ecosystem services of African fruit bats. Current Biology, 29(7), R237-R238.
Abedi-Lartey, M., Dechmann, D. K., Wikelski, M., Scharf, A. K., & Fahr, J. (2016). Long-distance seed dispersal by straw-coloured fruit bats varies by season and landscape. Global Ecology and Conservation, 7, 12-24.
Fahr, J., Abedi-Lartey, M., Esch, T., Machwitz, M., Suu-Ire, R., Wikelski, M., & Dechmann, D. K. (2015). 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.
Sapir, N., Horvitz, N., Dechmann, D. K., Fahr, J., & Wikelski, M. (2014). Commuting fruit bats beneficially modulate their flight in relation to wind. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 281(1782), 20140018.