Fighting insect pests is a major challenge for agriculture worldwide, and biological control
and integrated pest management constitute well‐recognised, cost‐effective ways to prevent …

Bats are an ecologically and taxonomically diverse group accounting for roughly a fifth of
mammalian diversity worldwide. Many of the threats bats face (eg, habitat loss, bushmeat …

Humans have inadvertently changed global ecosystems and triggered the dawn of a new
geological epoch, the Anthropocene. While some organisms can tolerate human activities …

Abstract Southeast Asia (SE Asia) is a known global hotspot of biodiversity and endemism,
yet the region is also one of the most biotically threatened. Ecosystems across the region are …

Open Access This book is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution
Noncommercial License, which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and …

Caves and other subterranean sites such as mines are critical to the survival of hundreds of
bat species worldwide, since they often provide shelter for most of a nation's bat fauna. In the …

Subterranean ecosystems are among the most widespread environments on Earth, yet we
still have poor knowledge of their biodiversity. To raise awareness of subterranean …

Fruit bats provide valuable pollination services to humans through a unique coevolutionary
relationship with chiropterophilous plants. However, chiropterophily in the Old World and the …

Pteropodid bats damage a wide range of fruit crops, exacerbated by continuing loss of their
natural food as forests are cleared. In some countries where such damage occurs, bats are …

During the last decade, the need to survey and model caves or caverns in their correct three-
dimensional geometry has increased due to two major competing motivations. One is the …