The threat of invasive species to bats: a review

摘要: Biological invasions are a major driver of biodiversity loss, but no study has described the scope threats to bats (Chiroptera) by invasive species. We reviewed literature for negative effects species and summarised according four categories: predation, disease, competition, indirect interactions. We identified 37 40 bat species. Ten were threatened more than one invasion pathway. About 38 percent cases speculative 18 circumstantial, many attributed overlapping ranges, most accounts do not quantify needed forecast population impacts. Evidence cat predation is frequently cited, constituting greatest incidence observational data. Other direct impacts documented from goats, dogs, brown tree snake, rainbow lorikeet, rose-ringed parakeet, yellow crazy ant, giant centipede, palm, burdock, avian cholera, white-nose syndrome. Circumstantial evidence suggests rats, stoats, coqui frog, common wolf little fire kudzu, Lantana camara. cats, cholera speculative, as those pigs, deer, white eye, starling, house sparrow, rock dove, barn owls, brush-tailed possum, honeybee, wasp, phytophagous insects, tamarisk, Cinnamomum verum, Tabebuia pallida. Over 60 island-dwelling, corresponding with indicating that extinctions occur on islands species’ worse island mainland populations. Although appreciable reductions owing often unproven, likely exacerbate other vulnerabilities. Multiple invaders synergistic interactions may ultimately lead losses. Managers should exercise precautionary principle taking action against non-native when first detected, even if new appear be detrimental.