Bats in urban areas of Brazil: roosts, food resources and parasites in disturbed environments.

ABSTRACT: Urbanization is a widespread intense land use that generally results in biodiversity decline. Among the taxa capable to adapt to urban landscapes, bats are particularly ubiquitous. Brazil has one of the world's largest diversity of bat species and one of the highest urbanization rates of the world. Yet, few studies have synthesized the biology of bats in urban environments, especially in Brazil. To fill this gap, we systematically reviewed the published scientific literature on the bat fauna found in urban areas of Brazil. The knowledge of urban bats is still incipient and heterogeneously spatially distributed, mostly concentrated in the southeastern region of the country. The assembled list of 84 urban species, of which nineteen are new species records for urban areas (including one new f

SUBMITTER: Nunes H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7089172 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature