Taxonomie and Biogeography of African Fruit Bats (Mammalia, Megachiroptera)

Integrating biodiversity, ecosystem services and socio-economic data to identify priority areas and landowners for conservation actions at the national scale

Communication in the Chiroptera, M. Brock Fenton. Indiana University Press, Bloomington (1985), ix, +161. Price $35.00

With their nocturnal and often secret habits, bats may be one of the most misunderstood groups of animals, yet worldwide they comprise over 1100 species (Simmons 2005), some 20% of all mammals. Their rich taxonomic and ecological diversity is attributed to their ability to fly and echolocate, enabling them to exploit most nocturnal niches. Because bats are relatively inaccessible to people who do not study them scientifically, very few guides to their identification, distribution and biology exist: however, here we have a book that will appeal to both students of bats and the general public alike.

Bats of southern and central Africa : a biogeographic and taxonomic synthesis, Ara Monadjem, Peter J. Taylor, F.P.D. (Woody) Cotterill & M. Corrie Schoeman : book review

Tropical forest conversion to rubber plantation in southwest China results in lower fungal beta diversity and reduced network complexity

Synergistic effects of climate and land-use change on representation of African bats in priority conservation areas

S1 Table. List of bat species, families and foraging groups recorded from manual identifications
of a random subset of four sites (two nights each) per village, and the codes given
to species-groups defined for subsequent automated identification with minimal overlap
in call parameters using scans and filters in Analook v. 4.1t, 2015 (Titley Electronics, www.
hoarybat.com). Single asterisk denotes species which were identified very rarely using manual
identification but not detected from automated scans. Double asterisk denotes one species
which was not manually detected in the sub-sampled sites but detected unequivocally with the automated scans.

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Alain Smith

Papers

Synergistic effects of climate and land-use change on representation of African bats in priority conservation areas

Animal taxa contrast in their scale-dependent responses to land use change in rural Africa