Brazil is a megadiverse country with more than 180 bat species. However, most inventories
have been mostly made using mist-net sampling and roost search and due to the lack of …

Indigenous Peoples have shaped and managed vast tracts of the Amazon rainforest for
millennia. However, evaluations of how much biodiversity is governed under Indigenous …

Mist nets set at ground level is the traditional method of surveying bats and in the Amazon,
almost half of the bat surveys used this methodology. The sole use of ground-level mist nets …

It is commonly assumed that aerial insectivorous bats in the tropics respond to moonlight
intensity by decreasing their foraging activity during bright nights due either to an increase in …

Aim We evaluated the relative importance of geographical and environment variables for
taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional β‐diversity of phyllostomid bats along the entire …

Mega dams in lowland tropical forests often create large archipelagos, leading to
biodiversity decay and disruption of ecosystem functioning in remnant habitat islands. We …

The extrinsic factors that most influence animal activity are weather and light conditions,
which can be assessed at hourly, monthly, and even lunar-cycle timescales. We evaluated …

During the last decades, the use of bioacoustics as a non‐invasive and cost‐effective
sampling method has greatly increased worldwide. For bats, acoustic surveys have long …

Habitat loss and fragmentation rank high amongst the most pressing threats to biodiversity.
Understanding how variation in functional traits is associated with species vulnerability in …

Bioacoustics is one of the most popular methods in bat research. Bat species are identifiable
through their echolocation call features (eg peak frequency, duration, bandwidth) but the …