Habitat prioritization for bat conservation: A case study in Vietnam.

ABSTRACT: Bats play a vital role in ecosystems through providing essential functions and services, such as pollination and pest control, but they face many threats from anthropogenic activities, climate change, and diseases. While establishing protected areas can be a conservation measure to mitigate bats' population declines and habitats loss, the effectiveness of current protected areas in conserving bat species remains poorly understood. Using Vietnam as a case, this study aims to evaluate the representation of the existing protected area network for bats in terms of the proportion of their distribution ranges covered and the number of well-covered species. We also identified areas that would improve the representation using the spatial prioritization approach. Our results showed that while Vietn

SUBMITTER: Tuan LQ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12425236 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature