New Approaches and Insights into Bat Population Status and Trends
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Wildlife".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 December 2024) | Viewed by 1949
Special Issue Editors
Interests: bat behavior; bat and wind turbine interactions
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Bat species around the world face multiple stressors, such as climate change, disease and wind energy, that can have population-level impacts. However, it can be difficult to quantify the impact of these stressors on bats because they are a cryptic species. Thus, innovative approaches are necessary to collect and analyze data to understand the population status and trends of bats, and inform conservation decisions. These approaches include genomics research, the use of advanced technologies and new systematic sampling frameworks for field data collection.
This Special Issue focuses on the methodological and analytical approaches used to study bat populations. These approaches can provide new insights into the status and trends for colonial or solitary roosting species. We invite original research papers and reviews addressing field and laboratory methods to quantify the bat population status and trends.
Dr. Cris Hein
Dr. Sara Weaver
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- acoustic detectors
- echolocation
- genetics
- genomics
- population sampling
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