Fig. 2.

Phenospace of different species of Microchiroptera. The dominant food habit of each species, and thereby the ability to procure this food source, is linked to the morphology of the animals, e.g. a higher Wing Aspect Ratio corresponds with the greater aerodynamic efficiency needed to chase high flying insects. Archetypes are extreme types, optimized to perform a single task. Proximity of a species to an archetype quantifies the level of adaptation this species has undergone with respect to the optimization objective or task. Reprinted from Shoval et al. (2012) with permission