Academic Publications by Topic

Birds

Bats

  • Dechmann, D. K., Safi, K., & Vonhof, M. J. (2006). Matching morphology and diet in the disc-winged bat Thyroptera tricolor (Chiroptera). Journal of Mammalogy, 87(5), 1013-1019.

  • Cholewa, E.,Vonhof, M., Bouchard, S., Peterson, C., & Fenton, B. (2001) The pathways of water movement in leaves modified into tents by bats. Biological Journal of The Linnean Society. 72(2), 179-191.

  • Fenton, M. B., Rydell, J., Vonhof, M. J., Eklöf, J., & Lancaster, W. C. (2000). Constant-frequency and frequency-modulated components in the echolocation calls of three species of small bats (Emballonuridae, Thyropteridae, and Vespertilionidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology, 77(12), 1891-1900.

  • Lim, B. K., Pedro, W. A., & Passos, F. C. (2003). Differentiation and species status of the Neotropical yellow-eared bats Vampyressa pusilla and V. thyone (Phyllostomidae) with a molecular phylogeny and review of the genus. Acta Chiropterologica, 5(1), 15-29. *

  • Pape, T., Dechmann, D., & Vonhof, M. J. (2002). A new species of Sarcofahrtiopsis Hall (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) living in roosts of Spix's disk-winged bat Thyroptera tricolor Spix (Chiroptera) in Costa Rica. Journal of Natural History, 36(8), 991-998. *

  • Riskin, D. K., & Fenton, M. B. (2001). Sticking ability in Spix's disk-winged bat, Thyroptera tricolor (Microchiroptera: Thyropteridae). Canadian Journal of Zoology, 79(12), 2261-2267.

  • Woodman, N. (2003). New record of the rare emballonurid bat Centronycteris centralis (Thomas, 1912) in Costa Rica, with notes on feeding habits. Caribbean Journal of Science, 39(3), 399-402.

  • Vonhof, M. J., & Fenton, M. B. (2004). Roost availability and population size of Thyroptera tricolor, a leaf-roosting bat, in north-eastern Costa Rica. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 291-305. *

  • Vonhof, M. J., Whitehead, H., & Fenton, M. B. (2004). Analysis of Spix's disc-winged bat association patterns and roosting home ranges reveal a novel social structure among bats. Animal behaviour, 68(3), 507-521. *

  • Vonhof, M., Davis, C. S., Strobeck, C., & Fenton, M. B. (2005). Characterization of microsatellite loci in Spix's disk-winged bats (Thyroptera tricolor). Molecular Ecology Resources. 1(1-2) 73-75.*

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Climate Change

  • Wolfe, J. D., & Ralph, C. J. (2009). Correlations between El Niño—Southern Oscillation and Changes in Nearctic—Neotropic Migrant Condition in Central America. The Auk, 126(4), 809-814. *

Anthropology

  • Burton, F.D. (1994). In the footsteps of Heraclitus. Strength in Diversity: A Reader in Physical Anthropology. 77-102.

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