Socioeconomic benefits associated with bats

S Aggrey, IB Rwego, E Sande, JD Khayiyi… - Journal of Ethnobiology …, 2024 - Springer
Background While bats are tremendously important to global ecosystems, they have been
and continue to be threatened by loss of habitat, food, or roosts, pollution, bat diseases …

Tradeoffs in people's perceptions about ecosystem services and disservices related to bats: Implications for managing agroecosystems and conserving bats

P Meli, JC Imio, F Lisón - Ecosystem Services, 2024 - Elsevier
Understanding the potential tradeoffs in the social perceptions of ecosystem services (ED)
and disservices (EDS) may help decision-making when managing human-modified …

[HTML][HTML] Reconstructing cave past to manage and conserve cave present and future

AC Hughes, E Kirksey, B Palmer, A Tivasauradej… - Ecological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Whilst restoration and recovery of ecosystems has become a major priority, developing a
baseline of what biodiversity was like prior to disturbance, and what might have driven …

Early twenty-first century biodiversity data pinpoint key targets for bird and mammal conservation in Mindanao, Southern Philippines

KC Dela Cruz, SS Abdullah, AR Agduma… - Biodiversity, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Mindanao, one of the three major groups of islands in the Philippines, is known for its
diverse and unique species. Despite its biological significance, conservation efforts aimed at …

[PDF][PDF] Early twenty-first century biodiversity data pinpoint key targets for bird and mammal conservation in Mindanao, Southern Philippines

KCD Cruz, SS Abdullah, AR Agduma, KC Tanalgo - Biodiversity, 2023 - researchgate.net
Mindanao, one of the three major groups of islands in the Philippines, is known for its
diverse and unique species. Despite its biological significance, conservation efforts aimed at …

[HTML][HTML] Monitoring the trade in bat taxidermy and specimens on e-commerce platforms

SB Hunter, J Weeds, F Mathews - Biological Conservation, 2024 - Elsevier
Wildlife trade is a major economic activity but can pose a threat to many species. Previous
research has focused on the trade of bats (Chiroptera) for food and medicine but little is …

Exploring the potential for online data sources to enhance species threat mapping through the case study of global bat exploitation

SB Hunter, M Oedin, J Weeds… - Conservation …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Expanding digital data sources, including social media and online news, provide a low‐cost
way to examine human–nature interactions, such as wildlife exploitation. However, the …

Foraging habitat quality of an Endangered mass-culled flying fox is reduced by alien plant invasion and improved by alien plant control

VO Seegobin, RZ Oleksy, FBV Florens - Journal for Nature Conservation, 2024 - Elsevier
Biodiversity is facing an extinction crisis due to human activities, including loss of seed
dispersal function due to frugivores' extinction or rarefaction. Among these frugivores, flying …

Application of the MENTOR model to advance One Health by promoting bat conservation and reducing zoonotic spillover risk

LJ Smith, N Gelman, MT O'Mara, WF Frick… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
For few taxonomic groups do conservation efforts have such a disproportionate impact on
biodiversity and human well-being as they do with bats. Bats face significant conservation …

Actors' Perceptions of Profitability Along a Bushmeat Commodity Chain in West Africa (Southern Benin)

F Vodouhe, SGA Nago… - Tropical …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Background and Research Aims: The bushmeat trade is one of the main drivers of faunal
extinction in tropical Africa. We assess the profitability of the bushmeat trade along the …