Forest Bats

For the first time that scientists have demonstrated the pest suppression services of insectivorous bats and birds in Southeast Asia. Miss Bea Maas, a PhD student from University of Goettingen and her colleagues, found that exclusion of bats and birds from cacao trees resulted in a si

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

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

Written by Michael Gerhard Schöner and Caroline Regina Schöner. Here we present our new study on the unusual interaction between bats (Kerivoula hardwickii hardwickii) and carnivorous pitcher plants (Nepenthes). Using radio-telemetry we discovered that the bats exclusively used two pi

Stefan Greif brought a report on bat surveys of the YUS conservation area of Papua New Guinea to my attention, authored by Simon K.A. Robson, Tamara E. Inkster, Andrew K. Krockenberger. From the executive summary “This project provides the first description of bat community stru