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Trait-related responses to habitat fragmentation in Amazonian bats (2015)
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Understanding how interspecific variation in functional traits influences species’ capacity to persist in fragments and use patches in fragmented landscapes is fundamental for the creation of effective conservation plans. This study uses... Read More about Trait-related responses to habitat fragmentation in Amazonian bats.

Methodological challenges in monitoring bat population - and assemblage-level changes for anthropogenic impact assessment (2014)
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Recent years have seen increased attention to bats as an effective bioindicator group for assessing responses to drivers of global change, which concurrently has led to a revived interest in establish-ing a global bat monitoring network. To be effect... Read More about Methodological challenges in monitoring bat population - and assemblage-level changes for anthropogenic impact assessment.

Where to nest? Ecological determinants of chimpanzee nest abundance and distribution at the habitat and tree species scale (2014)
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Carvalho, J., Meyer, C. F., Vicente, L., & Marques, T. (2015). Where to nest? Ecological determinants of chimpanzee nest abundance and distribution at the habitat and tree species scale. American Journal of Primatology, 77(2), 186-199. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.22321

Conversion of forests to anthropogenic land‐uses increasingly subjects chimpanzee populations to
habitat changes and concomitant alterations in the plant resources available to them for nesting and
feeding. Based on nest count surveys conducted dur... Read More about Where to nest? Ecological determinants of chimpanzee nest abundance and distribution at the habitat and tree species scale.

Species undersampling in tropical bat surveys : effects on emerging biodiversity patterns (2014)
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Undersampling is commonplace in biodiversity surveys of species-rich tropical assemblages in which rare taxa abound, with possible repercussions for our ability to implement surveys and monitoring programmes in a cost-effective way.

We... Read More about Species undersampling in tropical bat surveys : effects on emerging biodiversity patterns.

Echolocation of the big red bat Lasiurus egregius(Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) and first record from the Central Brazilian Amazon (2014)
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López-Baucells, A., Rocha, R., Fernández-Arellano, G., Bobrowiec, P., Palmeirim, J., & Meyer, C. (2014). Echolocation of the big red bat Lasiurus egregius(Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) and first record from the Central Brazilian Amazon. Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment, 49(1), 18-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/01650521.2014.907600

Lasiurus egregius (Peters, 1870) is a rare Neotropical vespertilionid bat and virtually no data on its ecology and echolocation calls are currently available. We report the capture of four individuals in the Central Amazon, representing the first rec... Read More about Echolocation of the big red bat Lasiurus egregius(Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) and first record from the Central Brazilian Amazon.

Predicting biodiversity change and averting collapse in agricultural landscapes (2014)
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Mendenhall, C., Karp, D., Meyer, C., Hadly, E., & Daily, G. (2014). Predicting biodiversity change and averting collapse in agricultural landscapes. Nature, 509, 213-217. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13139

The equilibrium theory of island biogeography1 is the basis for estimating
extinction rates2 and a pillar of conservation science3,4. The
default strategy for conserving biodiversity is the designation of
nature reserves, treated as islands in an... Read More about Predicting biodiversity change and averting collapse in agricultural landscapes.

First record of Micronycteris sanborni (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from Central Amazonia, Brazil: range expansion and description of its echolocation (2013)
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López-Baucells, A., Rocha, R., García-Mayes, I., Vulinec, K., & Meyer, C. F. (2013). First record of Micronycteris sanborni (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from Central Amazonia, Brazil: range expansion and description of its echolocation. Mammalia, 78(1), 127-132. https://doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2013-0006

This note reports the first record of Micronycteris
sanborni in Amazonas State, Brazil. It extends the species ’
known range > 2000 km northwestward and represents
the first record of M. sanborni in a humid tropical ecosystem,
suggesting that the... Read More about First record of Micronycteris sanborni (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from Central Amazonia, Brazil: range expansion and description of its echolocation.

A comparison of habitat use by phyllostomid bats (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) in natural forest fragments and Eucalyptus plantations in the Brazilian Cerrado (2013)
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Pina, S., Meyer, C. F., & Zórtea, M. (2013). A comparison of habitat use by phyllostomid bats (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) in natural forest fragments and Eucalyptus plantations in the Brazilian Cerrado. Chiroptera Neotropical (Impresso), 19(3), 14-30

We compared bat assemblages in semideciduous forest fragments in Brazilian Cerrado with those of eucalyptus plantations (Eucalyptus spp.). Specifically, we assessed differences in species richness, diversity, abundance, and species composition betwee... Read More about A comparison of habitat use by phyllostomid bats (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) in natural forest fragments and Eucalyptus plantations in the Brazilian Cerrado.

Out of the dark : diurnal activity in the bat Hipposideros ruber on São Tomé island (West Africa) (2011)
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Russo, D., Maglio, G., Rainho, A., Meyer, C. F., & Palmeirim, J. (2011). Out of the dark : diurnal activity in the bat Hipposideros ruber on São Tomé island (West Africa). Mammalian Biology, 76(6), 701-708. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mambio.2010.11.007

Geographical areas historically characterized by a lower risk of diurnal avian predation should in theory
allow bats to be active in daytime too, especially to forage. Oceanic islands are ideal for studying temporal
niche shifts in bats since they... Read More about Out of the dark : diurnal activity in the bat Hipposideros ruber on São Tomé island (West Africa).

Accounting for detectability improves estimates of species richness in tropical bat surveys (2011)
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1. Species richness is a state variable of some interest in monitoring programmes but raw species counts are often biased due to imperfect species detectability. Therefore, monitoring programmes should quantify detectability for target t... Read More about Accounting for detectability improves estimates of species richness in tropical bat surveys.