Distribution of bat species in Western Asia: Occurrence records from the Western Asia Bat Research Network (WAB-Net) project.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Western Asia represents a mixing pot of diverse bat species with distributions spanning across other geographic regions. Yet, relative to other regions, there is a significant gap in coordinated bat research in Western Asia, thereby resulting in a relatively limited number of curated occurrence records.

New information

The Western Asia Bat Research Network (WAB-Net) project was created to strengthen research capacity and knowledge of the diversity and distribution of bat species in a little-studied region, as well as to collect data to characterise the diversity and prevalence of coronaviruses in diverse bat species. Over a four-year period (2018-2022), we documented 4,278 individual records for 41 bat species using a cross-sectional survey approach at 50 sites in

SUBMITTER: Phelps K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11358616 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature