Overview
- The first book to focus on bats in urban areas, consolidating emerging research of bats in this unique ecosystem
- World experts summarize current best practices for urban bats management and conservation
- Unique focus on urban bat-human interactions, highlighting public health risks and benefits of bat-human co-occurrence
Part of the book series: Fascinating Life Sciences (FLS)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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What is an Urban Bat? Morphological, Physiological, Behavioural, and Genetic Adaptations
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How do Bats Inhabit Urban Environments? Uses of Artificial Roosts, Aerial Habitats, and Green Spaces
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How do Bats and Humans Interact in Urban Environments? Human Perceptions, Public Health, and Ecosystem Services of Bats
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About this book
Our book explores the interactions between bats and urban environments through case studies and reviews. Understanding how different species interact with urban environments can reveal potential opportunities to mitigate urban threats to bats and threats posed by bats to other urban organisms, including humans. With this book, we thus aspire to provide a knowledge base to help guide current and future efforts to conserve bats.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Joanna L. Coleman is an Assistant Professor at City University of New York-Queens College. She is also a core member of the Human Dimensions Working Group and the Co-Chair of the Bat Trade Working Group, within the IUCN Species Survival Commission, Bat Specialist Group. Her applied and interdisciplinary research agenda uses ecology and social science and to mitigate biodiversity loss and promote sustainability on an increasingly urban planet.
M. Brock Fenton, Professor Emeritus at Western University in Ontario, Canada, uses bats to explore the interfaces between animal behaviour, ecology and evolution. His research involves different aspects of the biology of bats using a combination of field and laboratory experiments and observations in settings ranging from different locations in Canada to a variety of sites in the tropics and subtropics.
Christina M. Davy is a Conservation Ecologist based at Carleton University, where she and her students study the impacts of rapid environmental change on endangered wildlife, including bats. She is particularly interested in understanding bats’ behavioral and genetic responses to habitat modification, including urbanisation, and the selective impacts of pathogens on bat behavior and population viability.
Carmi Korine is a Professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Carmi is studying the physiological ecology of bats, a discipline that explores, in an ecological and evolutionary context, the ways in which animals function in response to their natural environments. Currently, Carmi’s research explores the effects of anthropogenic disturbances on conservation ecology of desert-dwelling bats.
Krista J. Patriquin is an Adjunct Professor at Saint Mary’s University, and Research Coordinator with the Sable Island Institute, both in Nova Scotia, Canada. Broadly, her work investigates how organisms respond to change, including human-induced change. Most of this work has focused on foraging behaviour and conservation of bats in myriad environments, including urban parks.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Urban Bats
Book Subtitle: Biology, Ecology, and Human Dimensions
Editors: Lauren Moretto, Joanna L. Coleman, Christina M. Davy, M. Brock Fenton, Carmi Korine, Krista J Patriquin
Series Title: Fascinating Life Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13173-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-13172-1Published: 03 January 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-13175-2Published: 04 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-13173-8Published: 02 January 2023
Series ISSN: 2509-6745
Series E-ISSN: 2509-6753
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 190
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Ecology, Ecology, Zoology, Conservation Biology/Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, Genetics and Genomics