Author: Johnathan Rand
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781893699656
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"On a dark night in Bay City, Michigan, friends gather to play an innocent game of hide-and-seek. However, just as they begin to play, one of them sees a [gigantic] bat ... forced to abandon their game, five children must flee the vicious attacks of these giant creatures of the sky"--Page 4 of cover
Author: Michael J. Lacki
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2007-05-11
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 080189168X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Although bats are often thought of as cave dwellers, many species depend on forests for all or part of the year. Of the 45 species of bats in North America, more than half depend on forests, using the bark of trees, tree cavities, or canopy foliage as roosting sites. Over the past two decades it has become increasingly clear that bat conservation and management are strongly linked to the health of forests within their range. Initially driven by concern for endangered species—the Indiana bat, for example—forest ecologists, timber managers, government agencies, and conservation organizations have been altering management plans and silvicultural practices to better accommodate bat species. Bats in Forests presents the work of a variety of experts who address many aspects of the ecology and conservation of bats. The chapter authors describe bat behavior, including the selection of roosts, foraging patterns, and seasonal migration as they relate to forests. They also discuss forest management and its influence on bat habitat. Both public lands and privately owned forests are considered, as well as techniques for monitoring bat populations and activity. The important role bats play in the ecology of forests—from control of insects to nutrient recycling—is revealed by a number of authors. Bat ecologists, bat conservationists, forest ecologists, and forest managers will find in this book an indispensable synthesis of the topics that concern them.
Author:
Publisher: In the Hands of a Child
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13:
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Author: Allen Kurta
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780472064977
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Revised and expanded edition of the classic Mammals of the Great Lakes Region.
Author: Christian C. Voigt
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-12-07
Total Pages: 606
ISBN-13: 3319252208
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book focuses on central themes related to the conservation of bats. It details their response to land-use change and management practices, intensified urbanization and roost disturbance and loss. Increasing interactions between humans and bats as a result of hunting, disease relationships, occupation of human dwellings, and conflict over fruit crops are explored in depth. Finally, contributors highlight the roles that taxonomy, conservation networks and conservation psychology have to play in conserving this imperilled but vital taxon. With over 1300 species, bats are the second largest order of mammals, yet as the Anthropocene dawns, bat populations around the world are in decline. Greater understanding of the anthropogenic drivers of this decline and exploration of possible mitigation measures are urgently needed if we are to retain global bat diversity in the coming decades. This book brings together teams of international experts to provide a global review of current understanding and recommend directions for future research and mitigation.
Author: Lisa A. Beltz
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2017-10-11
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 1119150043
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An important resource that reviews the various infectious diseases that affect bats and bat populations Bats and Human Health: Ebola, SARS, Rabies and Beyond covers existing literature on viral, bacterial, protozoan, and fungal infections of bats and how these infections affect bat populations. The book also offers an overview of the potential for zoonotic transmission of infectious diseases from bats to humans or domestic animals. While most prior publications on the subject have dealt only with bat viral infections, this text closely covers a wide range of bat infections, from viral and bacterial infections to protist and fungal infections. Chapters on viral infections cover rabies, filoviruses, henipaviruses, and other RNA viruses, as well as information on bat virome studies. The book then provides information on bacterial infections–including arthropod-borne and other bacteria that affect bats–before moving on to protist infections, including apicomplexans and kinetoplastids, and fungal infections, including white-nose syndrome, histoplasma capsulatum, and other fungi. Comprehensive in scope, yet another key feature of this book is a searchable database that includes bat species, bat family, bat diet, bat location, type and classification of infecting microbes, and categories of microbes. This vital resource also: Provides a history and comprehensive overview of bat-borne diseases Incorporates information from the World Health Organization, as well as historical data from the National Libraries of Health and infectious disease journals Covers a variety of diseases including viral infections, bacterial infections, protist infections, and fungal infections Written for microbiologist, bat researchers, and conservationists, Bats and Human Health provides a comprehensive exploration of the various types of microbes that affect bats and their potential to affect human populations.
Author: Harrison Allen
Publisher:
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781418139735
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