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SEABCRU’s Matt Struebig and colleagues (including SEABCRU members Felica Lasmana and Anthony Turner) report on new research into the consequences of repeated logging for SE Asian bat diversity -with a few surprises on the potential value of heavily logged forests for bat conserv

The children’s story “Batty and Pitty” is based on our research about the mutualistic relationship between the bat species Kerivoula hardwickii hardwickii and the carnivorous pitcher plant Nepenthes hemsleyana. Both species can be found on Borneo. The relationship be

One of the directions for future research that I highlighted in my recent chapter on bat research in SE Asia was understanding how the edge/gap and open space insectivorous bats respond to habitat loss and land-use change. Because bats in these ensembles can be hard to catch but emit

This volume is edited by Rick Adams and Scott Pedersen, and published by Springer Press It is available as an e book if your institute has access to Springer ebooks, otherwise it is very expensive. I have a chapter that gives my perspective on how our work in Malaysia relates to fores

Although Eonycteris spelaea pollinates commercially important plants, as illustrated in the recent paper by Sara Bumrungsri and colleagues,  this sometimes costs them their lives. Fruit farmers find the flowers of such plants lying on the ground the morning after bats have visited and

Earlier this month saw the joint 16th IBRC and 43rd NASBR meeting in Costa Rica. This was the largest IBRC yet with over 650 people, and four concurrent sessions.  It was an excellent meeting, though obviously a little far for most people based in Southeast Asia. Nonetheless, there we