Responses of Tropical Bats to Habitat Fragmentation, Logging, and Deforestation

摘要: Land-use change is a key driver of the global biodiversity crisis and particularly serious threat to tropical biodiversity. Throughout tropics, staggering pace deforestation, logging, conversion forested habitat other land uses has created highly fragmented landscapes that are increasingly dominated by human-modified habitats degraded forests. In this chapter, we review responses bats range land-use scenarios, focusing on effects fragmentation, forest various forms agricultural production. Recent landscape-scale studies have considerably advanced our understanding how respond fragmentation disturbance at population, ensemble, assemblage level. This research emphasizes often species ensemble specific, sensitive spatial scale, strongly molded characteristics prevailing landscape matrix. Nonetheless, substantial knowledge gaps exist concerning types response bats. Few assessed genetic, behavioral, or physiological level, with regard disease prevalence, extent which human erodes capacity provide ecosystem services. A strong geographic bias, Asia and, most notably, Africa, being understudied, precludes comprehensive We encourage increased in Paleotropics emphasize need for long-term studies, approaches designed integrate multiple scales, answering questions conserving an era environmental dominance modified (i.e., Anthropocene).