Ecosystems and the communities they support are changing at alarmingly rapid rates.
Tracking species diversity is vital to managing these stressed habitats. Yet, quantifying and …

Wetland areas have decreased by up to 33% globally over the past ten years, threatening
the biodiversity they support and essential ecosystem services they provide. Despite this, the …

Bats play an important role in ecosystems and are highly relevant as indicators of
environmental change. Long-term monitoring of bat populations is therefore fundamental to …

Over the last two decades, macroecology–the analysis of large‐scale, multi‐species
ecological patterns and processes–has established itself as a major line of biological …

Measuring biodiversity is a challenging task for research in taxonomy, ecology and
conservation. Biodiversity is commonly measured using metrics related to species richness …

Innovative techniques, such as environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding, are now
promoting broader biodiversity monitoring at unprecedented scales, because of the …

Mist nets set at ground level is the traditional method of surveying bats and in the Amazon,
almost half of the bat surveys used this methodology. The sole use of ground-level mist nets …

Human-modified landscapes are composed of different types of land covers in differing
proportions (landscape composition), and each with differing spatial physiognomy …

Acoustic surveys have become a common survey method for bats and other vocal taxa.
Previous work shows that bat echolocation may be misidentified, but common analytic …

Habitat loss due to anthropogenic activities is a critical threat to biodiversity. Understanding
which factors determine species persistence in degraded environments is essential for …