A report by the Mammal Society under contract to Natural England, Natural Resources
Wales and Scottish Natural Heritage. We present the first comprehensive review of the …

Assessing diet variability is of main importance to better understand the biology of bats and
design conservation strategies. Although the advent of metabarcoding has facilitated such …

Faced with current health and environmental challenges, viticulture is directly concerned
with the need to reduce pesticide use. Natural pest control services provided by bats have …

Extra‐organismal DNA (eoDNA) from material left behind by organisms (noninvasive DNA,
eg, feces, hair) or from environmental samples (eDNA, eg, water, soil) is a valuable source …

During the most recent decade, environmental DNA metabarcoding approaches have been
both developed and improved to minimize the biological and technical biases in these …

Dietary plasticity can be a determining factor allowing species to cope with environmental
changes. Consequently, it is an important issue to consider in conservation biology. Despite …

Molecular‐based methods for identifying sex in mammals have a wide range of applications,
from embryo manipulation to ecological studies. Various sex‐specific or homologous genes …

Crocidura olivieri is a large-sized shrew species showing a clear trend towards
commensalism in West Africa, where it co-occurs and interacts with a number of rodent …

The Earth's biodiversity is currently experiencing immense pressure from habitat loss,
overexploitation, global climate change, and invasive species, which escalate the global …

The speed and dynamics of range expansions shape species distributions and community
composition. Despite the critical impact of population growth rates for range expansion, they …