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Bats in the Anthropocene: Conservation of Bats in a Changing World
Christian C. Voigt and Tigga Kingston
2015
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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, occupation of human dwellings, and conflict over fruit crops are explored in depth. Finally, contributors highlight the roles that taxonomy, conservation networks and conservation psychology have to play in conserving this imperilled but vital taxon.With over 1300 species, bats are the second largest order of mammals, yet as the Anthropocene dawns, bat populations around the world are in decline. Greater understanding of the anthropogenic drivers of this decline and exploration of possible mitigation measures are urgently needed if we are to retain global bat diversity in the coming decades. This book brings together teams of international experts to provide a global review of current understanding and recommend directions for future research and mitigation.
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Keywords
- biology
- ecology
- Animal Ecology
- Bat conservation
- Bat populations
- Bats
- Biology, Life Sciences
- Chiroptera
- Climate Change
- Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts
- Conservation
- Conservation Biology/Ecology
- Ecological science, the Biosphere
- Economics
- Economics, finance, business & management
- Environmental economics
- Fungal bat diseases
- Habitat fragmentation
- Human-bat conflicts
- Land use change
- Life sciences: general issues
- Mathematics & science
- thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCV Economics of specific sectors::KCVG Environmental economics
- thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAF Ecological science, the Biosphere
- Vertebrates
- Viral bat diseases
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-25220-9web: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-25220-9
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