Economic value of the pest control service provided by Brazilian free-tailed bats in south-central Texas

By C. Cleveland, Margrit Betke, P. Federico, J. Frank, T. Hallam, Jason W. Horn, Juan D. López, G. McCracken, R. Medellín, A. Moreno-Valdez and 3 more. 2006

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

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Effects of tropical forest fragmentation on aerial insectivorous bats in a land-bridge island system. (2010, background): “Despite their species richness and their important role as control agents of insects (Cleveland et al., 2006) information about aerial insectivores in lowland rainforests is still scarce (Jung et al.”
Bats in the Anthropogenic Matrix: Challenges and Opportunities for the Conservation of Chiroptera and Their Ecosystem Services in Agricultural Landscapes (2016, background): “Cleveland et al. (2006) estimate that Mexican free-tailed bats (T. brasiliensis) feeding on the cotton bollworm moth in Texas provide pest limitation services worth roughly US $183 per ha and year to cotton growers.”
Conservation Ecology of Cave Bats (2016, background): “The proportion of such pests in their faeces allows the economic value of such predation to be estimated, which includes a reduction in the number of costly pesticide applications required (Cleveland et al. 2006).”
Where forest meets urbanization: foraging plasticity of aerial insectivorous bats in an anthropogenically altered environment (2010, background): “In tropical ecosystems bats are important regulators in complex ecological processes through interactions such as seed dispersal, pollination, and predation on arthropods (Cleveland et al. 2006; Federico et al. 2008; Kalka et al. 2008; Medellı́n et al. 2000).”
Research priorities for bat conservation in Southeast Asia: a consensus approach (2008, background): “reduce the application of pesticides (Cleveland et al. 2006), and the consequent impacts on local biodiversity that result from their use.”
Adaptability and vulnerability of high flying Neotropical aerial insectivorous bats to urbanization (2011, background): “Consequently, molossids have the potential for longer and larger commutes to suitable foraging grounds (e.g. Cleveland et al., 2006), while they still can take advantage of higher roost site availability in urban areas.”
Cute, Creepy, or Crispy—How Values, Attitudes, and Norms Shape Human Behavior Toward Bats (2016, background): “This is a pertinent consideration as many bat conservation frames are based on ecosystem services provided by bats, and there are a growing number of studies attaching monetary values to the services (e.g., Cleveland et al. 2006; Wanger et al. 2014).”
Carpe noctem: the importance of bats as bioindicators (2009, background): “…insects, including cucumber beetles, June bugs, corn earworm moths, cotton bollworm moths, tobacco budworm moths and Jerusalem crickets (Whitaker 1995, Lee & McCracken 2005), which are important agricultural pests on such crops as corn, cotton and potatoes (Whitaker 1993, Cleveland et al. 2006).”
Conservation importance of limestone karst outcrops for Palaeotropical bats in a fragmented landscape (2009, background): “Insectivorous bats have an ecosystem value in agricultural areas, because as nocturnal predators they have considerable impacts on arthropod pest populations (Leelapaibul et al., 2005; Cleveland et al., 2006).”
Towards a biologically meaningful classification of subterranean organisms: a critical analysis of the Schiner-Racovitza system from a historical perspective, difficulties of its application and implications for conservation (2017, background): ““Classic” trogloxenes, such as bats, provide important and essential ecological functions (e.g. Cleveland et al. 2006, Kunz et al. 2011), but these animals must be protected in their totality, and not only the trogloxenes.”