Carpe noctem: the importance of bats as bioindicators

By Gareth J. F. Jones, D. Jacobs, Thomas H. Kunz, M. Willig, P. Racey. 2009

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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Return of the bats? A prototype indicator of trends in European bat populations in underground hibernacula (2015, background): “Bats had been proposed previously s biodiversity indicators and in the UK, the official government iodiversity indicator statistics have included a measure of the UK at population trends since 2008 (JNCC, 2008; Jones et al., 2009).”
Consequences of a large-scale fragmentation experiment for Neotropical bats: disentangling the relative importance of local and landscape-scale effects (2016, background): “They are acutely sensitive to human-induced landscape changes (García-Morales et al 2013; Meyer et al 2016) and their local abundance and diversity qualifies them as a well-suited indicator group to examine the effects of fragmentation on tropical biota (Jones et al 2009).”
Bats and Buildings: The Conservation of Synanthropic Bats (2015, background): “, pest suppression, pollination, seed dispersal) near houses, villages, and cities (Jones et al. 2009; Kunz et al. 2011; Ghanem and Voigt 2012).”
Bats as bioindicators – the need of a standardized method for acoustic bat activity surveys (2012, background): “Changes in bat populations or activity were related to climate change, water quality, agricultural intensification, loss and fragmentation of forest habitats, and habitat pollution (Jones et al. 2009).”
Mitigating the impacts of agriculture on biodiversity: bats and their potential role as bioindicators (2015, background): “Jones et al. (2009) outline a range of characteristics that may make 127 bats suitable bioindicator species, including their position at high trophic levels, widespread 128 distribution and relative taxonomic stability.”
The Response of Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) to Habitat Modification in a Neotropical Savannah (2017, background): “Due to their species richness, importance as ecosystem services providers, and facility to sample them (Jones, Jacobs, Kunz, Willig & Racey, 2009), bats have been suggested as efficient bioindicators of environmental health (Jones et al., 2009; Medellı́n, Equihua, & Amin, 2000).”
Bats in the Anthropogenic Matrix: Challenges and Opportunities for the Conservation of Chiroptera and Their Ecosystem Services in Agricultural Landscapes (2016, background): “These emerging trends pose major threats to farmland bat assemblages and populations (Jones et al. 2009; Kunz et al. 2011) and could negatively impact human populations by altering the ecosystem services that bats provide.”
Reconsidering the importance of harvested forests for the conservation of tree-dwelling bats (2010, background): “Bats are often deemed effective environmental indicators (Jones et al., 2009).”
Citizen science reveals trends in bat populations: The National Bat Monitoring Programme in Great Britain (2015, background): “The value of long-term monitoring of bat populations has been recognised at a global (Hutson et al., 2001; Jones et al., 2009) and European level (Battersby, 2010), and indeed monitoring bats is a national obligation within Europe under the Habitats Directive, Council Directive 92/42/EEC on the cons”
Landscape connectivity, habitat structure and activity of bat guilds in farmland-dominated matrices (2013, neutral): “Landscape connectivity, habitat structure and activity of bat guilds in farmland-dominated matrices”
Long-term monitoring of tropical bats for anthropogenic impact assessment: Gauging the statistical power to detect population change (2010, background): “Given their importance in tropical ecosystems, their value as bioindicators and their vulnerability (Jones et al., 2009), monitoring of tropical bats to assess population trends over longer time scales is urgently needed.”
Responses of Tropical Bats to Habitat Fragmentation, Logging, and Deforestation (2015, background): “Bats are valuable indicators of biodiversity and ecosystem health, and respond to a range of stressors related to environmental change (Jones et al. 2009).”