Lore Lindu National Park in Central Sulawesi supports an extraordinarily diverse assemblage of pteropodids, with 16 species documented. This diversity may in part reflect the great altitudinal range (from 350 to 2100 m a.s.l.) and diversity of vegetation types that combine to produce

A constant difficulty faced by biodiversity practitioners is the lack of information available on the distribution of the species they study. This then limits our ability to develop meaningful species conservation plans, particularly for regions such as Southeast Asia. It is therefore

Congratulations to the Prince of Songkla University team for a very relevant publication on the effects of rubber plantations on the diversity bats in peninsular Thailand. Phansamai Phommexay used acoustic monitoring and trapping to compare the diversity and activity of understorey in

In an important paper in press in Biological Conservation, Mark Harrison and colleagues describe how questionnaire surveys of hunters and market vendors in Central Kalimantan revealed decreasing availability of flying foxes, from which it can be inferred that populations are declining

With the recent addition of Rhinolophus affinis, Cambodia’s bat list now grows to 50 species. In July’s issue of the Cambodian Journal of Natural History, Phouthone Kingsada and colleagues bring together all the bat species currently recognised in the peer-reviewed literat

It is great to report on further new papers relating to the taxonomy of SE Asian bats.  Congratulations to Noor Haliza Hasan and Mohd Tajuddin Abdullah on their paper on woolly bats (Kerivoula) from Malaysia. This is a particularly ‘awkward’ group and they have done us all

With their unpigmented thumb pads, and outwardly-displaced second upper incisor, bats of the vespertilionid genus Glischropus are fairly distinctive. Two species have long been recognized, the widespread G. tylopus, and G. javanus known only from Java. However, in a recent issue of Zo

Congratulations to Saveng Ith and his many co-authors (including me :-)) on their new article sorting out the complexities of Rhinolophus coelophyllus and R. shameli. No less than 11 authors from eight institutes and seven countries were involved, a model collaboration. Saveng Ith, Pi

It is widely recognized that the diversity of species that persist in forest fragments is likely to be a reduced subset of that in larger intact systems, but what of the genetic diversity of species holding on in fragments? In this June’s issue of Ecology Letters, Matt Struebig