Bats in the Anthropocene: Conservation of Bats in a Changing World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bats in the Anthropocene: Conservation of Bats in a Changing World write by Christian C. Voigt. This book was released on 2015-12-07. Bats in the Anthropocene: Conservation of Bats in a Changing World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Island Bats
Island Bats - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Island Bats write by Theodore H. Fleming. This book was released on 2010-03-15. Island Bats available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The second largest order of mammals, Chiroptera comprises more than one thousand species of bats. Because of their mobility, bats are often the only native mammals on isolated oceanic islands, where more than half of all bat species live. These island bats represent an evolutionarily distinctive and ecologically significant part of the earth’s biological diversity. Island Bats is the first book to focus solely on the evolution, ecology, and conservation of bats living in the world’s island ecosystems. Among other topics, the contributors to this volume examine how the earth’s history has affected the evolution of island bats, investigate how bat populations are affected by volcanic eruptions and hurricanes, and explore the threat of extinction from human disturbance. Geographically diverse, the volume includes studies of the islands of the Caribbean, the Western Indian Ocean, Micronesia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and New Zealand. With its wealth of information from long-term studies, Island Bats provides timely and valuable information about how this fauna has evolved and how it can be conserved.
Bat Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation
Bat Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bat Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation write by Rick A. Adams. This book was released on 2013-09-05. Bat Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Recent advances in the study of bats have changed the way we understand this illusive group of mammals. This volume consist of 25 chapters and 57 authors from around the globe all writing on the most recent finding on the evolution, ecology and conservation of bats. The chapters in this book are not intended to be exhaustive literature reviews, but instead extended manuscripts that bring new and fresh perspectives. Many chapters consist of previously unpublished data and are repetitive of new insights and understanding in bat evolution, ecology and conservation. All chapters were peer-reviewed and revised by the authors. Many of the chapters are multi-authored to provide comprehensive and authoritative coverage of the topics.
Bat Conservation
Bat Conservation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bat Conservation write by Anna Berthinussen. This book was released on 2014-05-16. Bat Conservation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book brings together scientific evidence and experience relevant to the practical conservation of bats. The authors worked with an international group of bat experts and conservationists to develop a global list of interventions that could benefit bats. For each intervention, the book summarises studies captured by the Conservation Evidence project, where that intervention has been tested and its effects on bats quantified. The result is a thorough guide to what is known, or not known, about the effectiveness of bat conservation actions throughout the world. Bat Conservation is the fifth in a series of Synopses that will cover different species groups and habitats, gradually building into a comprehensive summary of evidence on the effects of conservation interventions for all biodiversity throughout the world. By making evidence accessible in this way, we hope to enable a change in the practice of conservation, so it can become more evidence-based. We also aim to highlight where there are gaps in knowledge. Evidence from all around the world is included. If there appears to be a bias towards evidence from northern European or North American temperate environments, this reflects a current bias in the published research that is available to us. Conservation interventions are grouped primarily according to the relevant direct threats, as defined in the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s Unified Classification of Direct Threats (www.iucnredlist.org/technical-documents/classification-schemes).
The Secret Lives of Bats
The Secret Lives of Bats - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Secret Lives of Bats write by Merlin D. Tuttle. This book was released on 2015. The Secret Lives of Bats available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Tuttle's account forever changes the way we see these poorly understood yet fascinating cratures." -- page 4 of cover.
