| Anotácia | Altogether 20 bat species were recorded in the Nízke Tatry National Park (Nízke Tatry Mts., Lower Tatra Mts.), including the buffer zone and adjacent areas in 1996–2010. The results include 621 bat records from the winter period and 129 records from the summer period. In total, 399 localities with bat occurrence were recorded: 123 new or unpublished, 218 published and 58 osteological sites. The main method of research (85% of the records) was winter census in hibernacula (caves, old mines, house basement, etc.). Additional methods included bat detecting, census in summer roosts and netting. The following species were found: Rhinolophus ferrumequinum, R. hipposideros, Myotis bechsteinii, M. blythii, M. myotis, M. brandtii, M. mystacinus, M. daubentonii, M. dasycneme, M. emarginatus, M. nattereri, Pipistrellus pipistrellus, Nyctalus noctula, Eptesicus nilssonii, E. serotinus, Vespertilio murinus, Barbastella barbastellus, Plecotus auritus, and P. austriacus. They make up 71.1% of the bat fauna of Slovakia. Altitudinal distribution of the sites was between 375 and 1510 m a. s. l. (range 1135 m). The dominant species were Myotis myotis (65.7%), Rhinolophus hipposideros (15.1%) and bats of the Myotis mystacinus complex (7.8%). Myotis myotis showed also the highest frequency of observations (22.7%), followed by Rhinolophus hipposideros with 22.3%, and Eptesicus nilssonii with 10.0 %. In the study area, we confirmed nursery colonies (mostly in the loft spaces) of the following species: Rhinolophus hipposideros, Myotis myotis, M. blythii, M. emarginatus, and Vespertilio murinus. The northern part of the Nízke Tatry Mts. (mainly the Demänovské jaskyne Cave System) is an important hibernation area of Eptesicus nilssonii and bats of the Myotis mystacinus complex in Slovakia. A complete bibliography of the literature on bats of the Nízke Tatry Mts. is added: altogether 101 published and 20 unpublished papers were gathered
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| Kategória ohlasu | PIKSA, Krzysztof - NOWAK, Jakub. The bat fauna hibernating in the caves of the Polish Tatra Mountains, and its long-term changes. In Central European journal of biology. ISSN 1895-104X, 2013, vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 448-460.
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