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M. May Dixon

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · The Ohio State University

OpenAlex ORCID
Mid career · publishing since 2014
Bat Biology and Ecology StudiesMarine animal studies overviewAnimal Vocal Communication and BehaviorAnimal Behavior and ReproductionSpecies Distribution and Climate Change

Publications

17

Citations

236

Est. group size

~1

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

11

Publishing since 2014

Research summary
AI-generated

M. May Dixon studies the sensory ecology and cognition of bats, focusing on how species like the frog-eating bat (Trachops cirrhosus) use hearing, smell, and spatial memory to find food and learn about their environment. This research combines behavioral experiments, acoustic analysis, and molecular methods (like DNA metabarcoding) to understand how different bat species differentiate their ecological niches. Prospective students would be looking at work that bridges animal behavior, neuroscience-adjacent cognition studies, and ecology.

Bat sensory ecology and hearingLearning and long-term memory in animalsForaging behavior and niche differentiationPredatory and frugivorous bat comparisonsChemical and acoustic cues in animal behavior

Publication output was minimal before 2019 but increased steadily through 2022, followed by a slight slowdown in the most recent years.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 1.6/year recently
17182019: 1 publication192020: 2 publications202021: 3 publications212022: 5 publications5222023: 1 publication232024: 2 publications242526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Behavioral Ecology×2
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)×2
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)×2
  • Figshare×2
  • Biotropica×1
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.

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