Does public fear that bats spread COVID-19 jeopardize bat conservation?

Genomic characterisation and epidemiology of 2019 novel coronavirus: implications for virus origins and receptor binding

(2020) Roujian Lu et al.   LANCET

A new coronavirus associated with human respiratory disease in China

(2020) Fan Wu et al.   NATURE

A pneumonia outbreak associated with a new coronavirus of probable bat origin

(2020) Peng Zhou et al.   NATURE

A Novel Coronavirus from Patients with Pneumonia in China, 2019

(2020) Na Zhu et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Evolution of the novel coronavirus from the ongoing Wuhan outbreak and modeling of its spike protein for risk of human transmission

(2020) Xintian Xu et al.   Science China-Life Sciences

Conservation in the maelstrom of Covid‐19 – a call to action to solve the challenges, exploit opportunities and prepare for the next pandemic

(2020) K. L. Evans et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

A Genomic Perspective on the Origin and Emergence of SARS-CoV-2

(2020) Yong-Zhen Zhang et al.   CELL

Public knowledge, attitudes and practices towards COVID-19: A cross-sectional study in Malaysia

(2020) Arina Anis Azlan et al.   PLoS One

Viral zoonotic risk is homogenous among taxonomic orders of mammalian and avian reservoir hosts

(2020) Nardus Mollentze et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Guidelines for communicating about bats to prevent persecution in the time of COVID-19

(2020) Douglas MacFarlane et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on biodiversity conservation

(2020) Richard T. Corlett et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

A review of the major threats and challenges to global bat conservation

(2019) Winifred F. Frick et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Neither Hope nor Fear: Empirical Evidence Should Drive Biodiversity Conservation Strategies

(2019) Lindall R. Kidd et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Messaging matters: A systematic review of the conservation messaging literature

(2019) Lindall R. Kidd et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Research trends on bats in China: A twenty-first century review

(2019) Anderson Feijó et al.   MAMMALIAN BIOLOGY

Knowledge and Perceptions of, and Attitudes to, Bats by People Living around Arabuko-Sokoke Forest, Malindi-Kenya

(2018) Simon Musila et al.   ANTHROZOOS

How many species of mammals are there?

(2018) Connor J Burgin et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Ebola virus epidemic in war-torn eastern DR Congo

(2018) Kasereka Masumbuko Claude et al.   LANCET

When bats go viral: negative framings in virological research imperil bat conservation

(2017) Adrià López-Baucells et al.   MAMMAL REVIEW

Host and viral traits predict zoonotic spillover from mammals

(2017) Kevin J. Olival et al.   NATURE

Can we protect island flying foxes?

(2017) Christian E. Vincenot et al.   SCIENCE

Education to Action: Improving Public Perception of Bats

(2016) Eric Hoffmaster et al.   Animals

To Cull, or Not To Cull, Bat is the Question

(2015) Kevin J. Olival   EcoHealth

How anthropogenic noise affects foraging

(2015) Jinhong Luo et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Artificial light puts ecosystem services of frugivorous bats at risk

(2014) Daniel Lewanzik et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Regarding Dengue Fever among the Healthy Population of Highland and Lowland Communities in Central Nepal

(2014) Meghnath Dhimal et al.   PLoS One

Ecological dynamics of emerging bat virus spillover

(2014) R. K. Plowright et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Bat conservation in China: should protection of subterranean habitats be a priority?

(2013) Jinhong Luo et al.   ORYX

Conserving energy at a cost to biodiversity? Impacts of LED lighting on bats

(2012) Emma L. Stone et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Ecological and anthropogenic drivers of rabies exposure in vampire bats: implications for transmission and control

(2012) D. G. Streicker et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Bats host major mammalian paramyxoviruses

(2012) Jan Felix Drexler et al.   Nature Communications

Ecosystem services provided by bats

(2011) Thomas H. Kunz et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Management of the Panzootic White-Nose Syndrome through Culling of Bats

(2010) THOMAS G. HALLAM et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

An Emerging Disease Causes Regional Population Collapse of a Common North American Bat Species

(2010) W. F. Frick et al.   SCIENCE

Food safety and environmental quality impose conflicting demands on Central Coast growers

(2009) Melanie Beretti et al.   CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURE

Causal inference in disease ecology: investigating ecological drivers of disease emergence

(2008) Raina K Plowright et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT