Do We Need to Use Bats as Bioindicators?

Recurring fires in Mediterranean habitats and their impact on bats

(2021) Adrià López-Baucells et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Bats and wetlands: synthesising gaps in current knowledge and future opportunities for conservation

(2021) Maria Mas et al.   MAMMAL REVIEW

Generalists yet different: distributional responses to climate change may vary in opportunistic bat species sharing similar ecological traits

(2021) Sonia Smeraldo et al.   MAMMAL REVIEW

Artificial illumination influences niche segregation in bats

(2021) Valeria B Salinas-Ramos et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Insectivorous bats provide significant economic value to the Australian cotton industry

(2021) Heidi Kolkert et al.   Ecosystem Services

An African bat in Europe, Plecotus gaisleri : Biogeographic and ecological insights from molecular taxonomy and Species Distribution Models

(2020) Leonardo Ancillotto et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Predicting regional hotspots of phylogenetic diversity across multiple species groups

(2020) Sophia Franke et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Traffic noise playback reduces the activity and feeding behaviour of free-living bats

(2020) Domhnall Finch et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Resilient responses by bats to a severe wildfire: conservation implications

(2020) L. Ancillotto et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

Monitoring cave-dwelling bats using remote passive acoustic detectors: a new approach for cave monitoring

(2020) Natalia Revilla-Martín et al.   BIOACOUSTICS-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SOUND AND ITS RECORDING

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

Considering adaptive genetic variation in climate change vulnerability assessment reduces species range loss projections

(2019) Orly Razgour et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Molecular phylogenetics of slit‐faced bats (Chiroptera: Nycteridae) reveal deeply divergent African lineages

(2019) Terrence C. Demos et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH

Evidence of region‐wide bat population decline from long‐term monitoring and Bayesian occupancy models with empirically informed priors

(2019) Thomas J. Rodhouse et al.   Ecology and Evolution

The importance of ponds for the conservation of bats in urban landscapes

(2019) L. Ancillotto et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

The effects of wildfire severity and pyrodiversity on bat occupancy and diversity in fire-suppressed forests

(2019) Z. L. Steel et al.   Scientific Reports

Agroecological farming practices promote bats

(2018) Elissa M. Olimpi et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Mercury Bioaccumulation in Two Species of Insectivorous Bats from Urban China: Influence of Species, Age, and Land Use Type

(2018) Laura M. Heiker et al.   ARCHIVES OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION AND TOXICOLOGY

Bats are still not birds in the digital era: echolocation call variation and why it matters for bat species identification

(2018) Danilo Russo et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Cost-efficiency of cross-taxon surrogates in temperate forests

(2018) Laurent Larrieu et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Novel perspectives on bat insectivory highlight the value of this ecosystem service in farmland: Research frontiers and management implications

(2018) Danilo Russo et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Higher bat and prey abundance at organic than conventional soybean fields

(2018) Julia E. Put et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Testing the performance of bats as indicators of riverine ecosystem quality

(2018) Carmelina De Conno et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

One strategy does not fit all: determinants of urban adaptation in mammals

(2018) Luca Santini et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Collection of voucher specimens for bat research: conservation, ethical implications, reduction, and alternatives

(2017) Danilo Russo et al.   MAMMAL REVIEW

Separating the effects of water quality and urbanization on temperate insectivorous bats at the landscape scale

(2017) Han Li et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Sociality influences thermoregulation and roost switching in a forest bat using ephemeral roosts

(2017) Danilo Russo et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Activity and diet of bats in conventional versus organic apple orchards in southern Michigan

(2017) Brenna L. Long et al.  

The use of automated identification of bat echolocation calls in acoustic monitoring: A cautionary note for a sound analysis

(2016) Danilo Russo et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Multiple-stressor effects on stream invertebrates: DNA barcoding reveals contrasting responses of cryptic mayfly species

(2016) Jan N. Macher et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Impact of mining and industrial pollution on stream macroinvertebrates: importance of taxonomic resolution, water geochemistry and EPT indices for impact detection

(2016) Ian A. Wright et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Bat richness and activity in heterogeneous landscapes: guild-specific and scale-dependent?

(2016) Eduardo S. Mendes et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Reduction of metal exposure of Daubenton's bats ( Myotis daubentonii ) following remediation of pond sediment as evidenced by metal concentrations in hair

(2016) Lucie Flache et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Trophic requirements beyond foraging habitats: The importance of prey source habitats in bat conservation

(2015) Aitor Arrizabalaga-Escudero et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Time-lagged responses of indicator taxa to temporal landscape changes in agricultural landscapes

(2015) Satoshi Yamanaka et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Protecting one, protecting both? Scale-dependent ecological differences in two species using dead trees, the rosalia longicorn beetle and the barbastelle bat

(2015) D. Russo et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Bats as bioindicators: an introduction

(2015) Danilo Russo et al.   MAMMALIAN BIOLOGY

Return of the bats? A prototype indicator of trends in European bat populations in underground hibernacula

(2015) Thomas Van der Meij et al.   MAMMALIAN BIOLOGY

Impacts of artificial lighting on bats: a review of challenges and solutions

(2015) Emma Louise Stone et al.   MAMMALIAN BIOLOGY

Bats as bioindicators of heavy metal pollution: history and prospect

(2015) Jan Zukal et al.   MAMMALIAN BIOLOGY

Sensitivity of bats to urbanization: a review

(2015) Danilo Russo et al.   MAMMALIAN BIOLOGY

Mitigating the impacts of agriculture on biodiversity: bats and their potential role as bioindicators

(2015) Kirsty J. Park   MAMMALIAN BIOLOGY

Cryptic diversity of Italian bats and the role of the Apennine refugium in the phylogeography of the western Palaearctic

(2015) Wiesław Bogdanowicz et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Coastal Cliffs on Islands as Foraging Habitat for Bats

(2014) Leonardo Ancillotto et al.   ACTA CHIROPTEROLOGICA

The importance of non-forest landscapes for the conservation of forest bats: lessons from barbastelles (Barbastella barbastellus)

(2014) L. Ancillotto et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Bat guilds, a concept to classify the highly diverse foraging and echolocation behaviors of microchiropteran bats

(2013) Annette Denzinger et al.   Frontiers in Physiology

Lunar phobia in bats and its ecological correlates: A meta-analysis

(2012) Romeo A. Saldaña-Vázquez et al.   MAMMALIAN BIOLOGY

Ecosystem services provided by bats

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

Reconsidering the importance of harvested forests for the conservation of tree-dwelling bats

(2010) Danilo Russo et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Cross-taxon congruence in tree, bird and bat species distributions at a moderate spatial scale across four tropical forest types in the Philippines

(2010) Merlijn van Weerd et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

The Effectiveness of Surrogate Taxa for the Representation of Biodiversity

(2010) ADAM S. LEWANDOWSKI et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Daubenton's bat distribution along rivers - developing and testing a predictive model

(2009) Steve D. Langton et al.   AQUATIC CONSERVATION-MARINE AND FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS

Carpe noctem: the importance of bats as bioindicators

(2009) G Jones et al.   Endangered Species Research

Indicators of the impact of climate change on migratory species

(2008) SE Newson et al.   Endangered Species Research