Bats in the Anthropocene: Conservation of Bats in a Changing World

This book focuses on central themes related to the conservation of bats. It details their response to land-use change and management practices, intensified urbanization and roost disturbance and loss. Increasing interactions between humans and bats as a result of hunting, disease relationships, occu...

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Weitere Verfasser: Voigt, Christian C. (Herausgegeben von), Kingston, Tigga (Herausgegeben von)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Ausgabe:1st ed. 2016.
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Online-Zugang:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25220-9
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Bats in the Anthropocene
  • Urbanisation and its effects on bats – a global meta-analysis
  • Bats and roads
  • Responses of tropical bats to habitat fragmentation, logging, and deforestation
  • Insectivorous bats and silviculture: balancing timber production and bat conservation
  • Bats in the anthropogenic matrix: Challenges and opportunities for the conservation of Chiroptera and their ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes
  • Dark matters: the effects of artificial lighting on bats
  • Bats and water: anthropogenic alterations threaten global bat populations
  • White-nose syndrome in bats
  • Zoonotic viruses and conservation of bats
  • Impacts of Wind Energy Development on Bats: a Global Perspective
  • Exploitation of Bats for Bushmeat and Medicine
  • The conflict between pteropodid bats and fruit growers: species, legislation and mitigation
  • Bats and buildings: The conservation of synanthropic bats
  • Conservation ecology of cave bats
  • The roles of taxonomy and systematics in bat conservation
  • Networking networks for global bat conservation
  • Cute, Creepy, or Crispy – how values, attitudes and norms shape human behavior toward bats. .