Ecological correlates of vulnerability to fragmentation in Neotropical bats

Season‐modulated responses of Neotropical bats to forest fragmentation

Seasonality causes fluctuations in resource availability, affecting the presence and abundance of animal species. The impacts of these oscillations on wildlife populations can be exacerbated by habitat fragmentation. We assessed differences in bat species abundance between the wet and dry season in a fragmented landscape in the Central Amazon characterized by primary forest fragments embedded i...

Adaptability and vulnerability of high flying Neotropical aerial insectivorous bats to urbanization

Worldwide, humans are transforming landscapes and fundamentally alter biodiversity patterns and ecosystem functioning (e.g. Vitousek et al., 1997; Ellis & Ramankutty, 2008). The steady increase in human population puts pressure on areas with pristine habitats, mainly because of agricultural expansion and urbanization, typically with detrimental effects on the associated wildlife. Urbanization a...

Bacula of Some Neotropical Bats

Highly diversified coronaviruses in neotropical bats.

Bats host a broad diversity of coronaviruses (CoVs), including close relatives of human pathogens. There is only limited data on neotropical bat CoVs. We analysed faecal, blood and intestine specimens from 1562 bats sampled in Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador and Brazil for CoVs by broad-range PCR. CoV RNA was detected in 50 bats representing nine different species, both frugivorous and insectivorou...

Evaluation of Ecological Vulnerability in Chelgard Mountainous Landscape

Although complexity and vulnerability assessment of mountain landscapes is increasingly taken into consideration, less attention is paid to ecophronesis-based solutions so as to reduce the fragile ecosystem vulnerability. The main propose of this study is to provide an insight of mountain complex landscape vulnerability and propose ecophronesis-based solutions in strategic planning framework fo...