A5057880509- Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Marine animal studies overview
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Viral Infections and Vectors
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Plant and animal studies
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Rabies epidemiology and control
- Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology
- Gut microbiota and health
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
Texas Tech University
2015-2024
International Union for Conservation of Nature
2023-2024
Bat Conservation International
2014-2022
Lubbock Christian University
2015
Boston University
1995-2006
Oxford Research Group
1977
New College
1971
Comprehensive, global information on species' occurrences is an essential biodiversity variable and central to a range of applications in ecology, evolution, biogeography conservation. Expert maps often represent only available distributional play increasing role conservation assessments macroecology. We provide for the native ranges all extant mammal species harmonised taxonomy Mammal Diversity Database (MDD) mobilised from two sources, Handbook Mammals World (HMW) Illustrated Checklist...
COVID-19 has spread around the globe, with massive impacts on global human health, national economies and conservation activities. In timely editorial about in maelstrom of COVID-19, Evans et al. (2020) urged community to collaborate other relevant sectors society search for solutions challenges posed by current pandemic, as well future zoonotic outbreaks. Considering association bats (Zhou al., 2020), bat conservationists will undoubtedly be key actors this dialogue, thus an action plan how...
Estimates of insectivorous bat diversity in the Palaeotropics have largely been hampered by lack long-term studies employing appropriate capture techniques. Using a variety trapping methods, 45 species were captured approximately 3 km 2 primary dipterocarp rain forest Malaysia over 8 y. The cumulative site list for Kuala Lompat Research Station, Krau Wildlife Reserve, now stands at 51 species. Although this is likely still not complete list, it already one most species-rich world. We...
The intermediate leaf-nosed bat (Hipposideros larvatus) is a medium-sized distributed throughout the Indo-Malay region. In north-east India, bats identified as H. larvatus captured at single cave emitted echolocation calls with bimodal distribution of peak frequencies, around either 85 kHz or 98 kHz. Individuals echolocating had larger ears and longer forearms than those kHz, although no differences were detected in wing morphology diet, suggesting limited resource partitioning. A comparison...
1. Species richness is a state variable of some interest in monitoring programmes but raw species counts are often biased due to imperfect detectability. Therefore, should quantify detectability for target taxa assess whether it varies over temporal or spatial scales. We assessed the potential tropical bat reliably estimate trends richness. 2. Using data from 25 assemblages Old and New World tropics, we estimated all an assemblage (mean proportion detected per sampling plot) individual...
With 70 named species and multiple morphologically cryptic lineages, the genus Hipposideros is a diverse taxonomically contentious group of insectivorous bats in Old World tropics. Half most diversity are concentrated bicolor group. Here we resolve taxonomic status (Temminck, 1834), group's namesake. Two but acoustically genetically distinct lineages H. co-occur peninsular Malaysia Thailand. Pending revision, these were according to average frequency maximum energy echolocation calls...
We present evidence that a relatively widespread and common bat from South East Asia comprises two morphologically cryptic but acoustically divergent species. A population of the bicoloured leaf–nosed (Hipposideros bicolor) Peninsular Malaysia exhibits bimodal distribution echolocation call frequencies, with peaks in frequency maximum energy at ca. 131 142 kHz. The phonic types are genetically distinct, cytochrome b sequence divergence just under 7%. consider mechanisms by which acoustic...
Host-associated microbiomes are integral components of host health, but microbiome community structure varies among and within hosts. Reconciling variability with the apparent dependence hosts on function, characterizing how functional divergence proceeds across niches, remains challenging. Here, through study gut diets three insectivorous bat species we characterize is shaped by predicted properties members. We found that while diet composition do not significantly relate to each other,...