African bat database: curated data of occurrences, distributions and conservation metrics for sub-Saharan bats
Ara Monadjem, Cecilia Montauban, Paul W Webala, Theresa M Laverty, Eric M Bakwo-Fils, Laura Torrent, Iroro Tanshi, Adam Kane, Abigail L Rutrough, David L Waldien, Peter J Taylor · 2024
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Description
Ara Monadjem and co-authors published this data paper in 2024, the African bat database. Where each species lives is the bedrock of conservation, yet bat ranges are poorly mapped, above all in Africa. Museum specimens sit mostly overseas, and new species keep splitting from old ones. The team gathered 17,285 checked locality records for all 266 bat species of sub-Saharan Africa.
Each record is backed by a specimen or gene proof and matched to current names. From the points they built range models and computed the standard area measures used on the Red List of threatened species. An online viewer makes the data open to all. The authors offer the set as a base for ecology and for guarding bats, a group that pollinates, hunts pests, and seeds forests.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ara Monadjem, Cecilia Montauban, Paul W Webala, Theresa M Laverty, Eric M Bakwo-Fils, Laura Torrent, Iroro Tanshi, Adam Kane, Abigail L Rutrough, David L Waldien, Peter J Taylor |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 26 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |