Bats are important ecosystems service providers, make a significant contribution to
biodiversity and can be important pests and disease vectors. In spite of this, information on …

The importance of islands in revealing evolutionary processes was highlighted already at
the birth of evolutionary biology as a science (Darwin 1859; Darwin and Wallace 1858) …

Taxonomy—the description, naming, and classification of organisms—and systematics—the
study of the evolutionary relationships of organisms—are both crucial components in …

Recent fieldwork and associated molecular and systematic studies on the bat fauna of the
Comoro Archipelago (Grande Comore, Anjouan, Mohéli, and Mayotte) have provided new …

In recent years, new cryptic mammalian species have been discovered in Europe, many of
which belong to the order Chiroptera. Within this order, some species such as Myotis …

A complete list of bat records available from Libya was compiled from literature and from
new records, based on field studies and examination of museum specimens. The record …

We describe a population of pipistrelle-like bats from Príncipe Island (Gulf of Guinea,
Western Central Africa) as a new species based on the molecular and morphological …

African-Malagasy species of the bat genus Miniopterus are notable both for the dramatic
increase in the number of newly recognized species over the last 15 years, as well as for the …

Vicariance and dispersal events, combined with intricate global climatic history, have left an
imprint on the spatiotemporal distribution and diversity of many organisms. Anelosimus …

Aim We documented how the similarity of mammal assemblages on continental and oceanic
islands has changed since initial human colonization, since European arrival and overall …