Authors
Maria Mas, Carles Flaquer, Xavier Puig-Montserrat, Adrià López-Baucells
Publication date
2021
Journal
Mammal Review
Description
- 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 importance of wetlands for bat conservation and the consequences of losing these habitats are not comprehensively understood.
- Through a systematic literature review, we quantified the knowledge gaps regarding bats in wetlands by: 1) assessing research trends over time; 2) evaluating research biases in geography, themes, species, seasons, and methodology; 3) creating the ‘bat Knowledge Index’ (bKI), a standard indicator for measuring how well‐studied bats in wetlands are per country; 4) compiling and summarising the ecological responses of bats to wetlands; and 5) assessing how bat researchers perceive the role of wetlands for bat conservation.
- We found strong similarities between the reviewed studies and the bat …
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Scholar articles
M Mas, C Flaquer, H Rebelo, A López‐Baucells - Mammal Review, 2021