David Jacobs
University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. The allometry of echolocation call frequencies of insectivorous bats: why do some species deviate from the pattern?
    Oecologia, vol. 152, no. 3, pp. 583–594, 2007
  2. A Family Matter: Conclusive Resolution of the Taxonomic Position of the Long-Fingered Bats, Miniopterus
    Molecular Biology and Evolution, vol. 24, no. 7, pp. 1553–1561, 2007
  3. Ignoring the irrelevant: auditory tolerance of audible but innocuous sounds in the bat-detecting ears of moths
    Naturwissenschaften, vol. 95, no. 3, pp. 241–245, 2007
  4. Deliberate insectivory by the fruit bat Rousettus aegyptiacus
    Acta Chiropterologica, vol. 8, no. 2, p. 549, 2006
  5. CRYPTIC SPECIES IN AN INSECTIVOROUS BAT, SCOTOPHILUS DINGANII
    Journal of Mammalogy, vol. 87, no. 1, p. 161, 2006
  6. Foraging and roosting ecology of a rare insectivorous bat species, Laephotis wintoni (Thomas, 1901), Vespertilionidae
    Acta Chiropterologica, vol. 7, no. 1, p. 101, 2005
  7. A Nuclear DNA Phylogenetic Perspective on the Evolution of Echolocation and Historical Biogeography of Extant Bats (Chiroptera)
    Molecular Biology and Evolution, vol. 22, no. 9, pp. 1869–1886, 2005
  8. GENETIC AND PHENOTYPIC DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SOUTH AFRICAN LONG-FINGERED BATS, WITH A GLOBAL MINIOPTERINE PHYLOGENY
    Journal of Mammalogy, vol. 86, no. 6, p. 1121, 2005
  9. The influence of wing morphology and echolocation on the gleaning ability of the insectivorous bat Myotis tricolor
    Canadian Journal of Zoology, vol. 82, no. 12, pp. 1854–1863, 2004
  10. Strong population substructure is correlated with morphology and ecology in a migratory bat
    Nature, vol. 424, no. 6945, Article ID nature01742, 4 pages, 2003
  11. Auditory encoding during the last moment of a moth's life
    Journal of Experimental Biology, vol. 206, no. 2, pp. 281–294, 2003
  12. Support for the allotonic frequency hypothesis in an insectivorous bat community
    Oecologia, vol. 134, no. 1, pp. 154–162, 2003
  13. Some considerations about Dirac–Fock calculations
    Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM, vol. 539, no. 1-3, pp. 11–15, 2001
  14. Individual signatures in the frequency-modulated sweep calls of African large-eared, free-tailed bats Otomops martiensseni (Chiroptera: Molossidae)
    Journal of Zoology, vol. 262, no. 1, pp. 11–19, 1999
  15. Variation in the echolocation calls of the hoary bat (Lasiurus cinereus): influence of body size, habitat structure, and geographic location
    Canadian Journal of Zoology, vol. 77, no. 4, pp. 530–534, 1999
  16. The diet of the insectivorous Hawaiian hoary bat (Lasiurus cinereus semotus) in an open and a cluttered habitat
    Canadian Journal of Zoology, vol. 77, no. 10, pp. 1603–1608, 1999
  17. Morphological Divergence in an Insular Bat, Lasiurus cinereus semotus
    Functional Ecology, vol. 10, no. 5, p. 622, 1996
  18. No evidence for the work-conflict hypothesis in the eusocial naked mole-rat ( Heterocephalus glaber  )
    Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, vol. 39, no. 6, pp. 401–409, 1996