Valuation of ecosystem service of #bats in rice paddies 🦇🌾💵

Hi everyone! Tomorrow at noon (French time, UTC +1), I will give a brief overview of my research on bats. You can follow it on youtube: blog.creamontblanc.org/?p=5396 (it will be in 🇫🇷 with slides in 🇬🇧)

The ecology of ageing in wild societies: linking age structure & social behaviour doi.org/10.32942/X21893
Led by brill Joe Woodman.
Great to have this out after years in-the-works!

All welcome to our upcoming The Royal Society conf on this topic too:
royalsociety.org/science-events…

🦇 Unlocking the secrets of bat genomes! 🧬 The Bat1K project reveals fascinating adaptations in immune genes, shedding light on viral tolerance and disease resistance. 🌐🔬 #BatGenomes
👉🏽assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-25576…

Bats have moved to higher altitudes and are bigger because of climate change. Danilo Russo’s research spans 24 years, and I am honoured to be part of this new paper in Science of the Total Environment.

Our new paper out on applying genomic approaches to identify historic population declines in European forest #bats Journal of Applied Ecology. The result of a great collaboration with Bat Conservation Trust Javier Juste Cecilia Montauban 🦇🐾 Francesca Festa Gareth Jones' Lab - University of Bristol, Hugo Rebelo 🦇🌳 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

🦇🧬 How climate change could cause havoc to the extraordinary lifespans of bats

👩‍🔬 The extraordinary lifespans of bats could be under threat from rising global temperatures, according to new research.

A study by researchers from University College Dublin and University of

Climate change could limit bats' lifespans!

The extraordinary lifespans of bats could be under threat from rising global temperatures, according to new research by Gareth Jones' Lab - University of Bristol et al.

Find out more by clicking below:

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

The Royal Society

We are still looking for someone to fill this 🚨 FULLY-FUNDED PhD position 🚨 looking at immunity in bats at Queen Mary University London. Tight deadline so please get in touch quickly. 🦇🧬

🦇It's not just the species of bat that can be identified using a spectrogram, Hannah also uses them to find out what they're getting up to...

#bats #ecology #research #phd #conservation Bat Conservation Trust

Bat activity is reduced at solar farms compared to neighbouring sites☀️🦇

So how can we balance the need for solar farms against impacts on bats?

Gareth Jones Gareth Jones' Lab - University of Bristol explores this issue in The Conversation using new Journal of Applied Ecology research

theconversation.com/bats-are-avoid…

A new Science study of 348 species offers clues into the diversity of mammalian life spans.

Learn more ⬇️
📄: scim.ag/3NG
#SciencePerspective : scim.ag/3NF

Bat activity lower at solar farm sites, study finds focusingonwildlife.com/news/bat-activ… It might be that the habitat is less good at providing insects, as partly covered by panels. It might be collisions with panels. More research is needed.

DID YOU KNOW: Little is known about how wildlife is affected by the transition period when a farm goes organic.

Gareth Jones' Lab - University of Bristol has worked on exactly this, which you can find out more about at the link below:

bristol.ac.uk/news/2023/july…

To all #bioacoustics peeps out there, we're still looking for abstracts for the online #audiomoth conference. Please RT so that friends and colleagues can see this too. Feel free to DM me or email me for more information on the conference.

Our new paper in Journal of Applied Ecology, led by Penelope Fialas for her Masters thesis, shows that bat activity declines during the transition to organic farming in citrus orchards, before increasing when the orchards become fully organically certified.

Zoonotic diseases are transmitted from animals to humans & emergence is often due to human-driven landscape changes📈

Prist et al reviewed evidence linking ecological restoration with disease risk & proposed restoration strategies to limit disease spread

doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

Introducing {ggflowchart} -Flowcharts can be a useful way to visualise complex processes, and the new R package {ggflowchart} makes them easy to create in R. This blog post shows you how. nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introduci…… #rstats #ggflowchart #dataviz #rmarkdown #quartopub #rpackage

We've just released the AudioMoth Live App for Windows, Mac, and Linux!

Use any USB microphone to make continuous recordings, monitor the audio input, or apply a heterodyne bat detector to the input. It also supports sample rates up to 384 kHz.
openacousticdevices.info/live

Some field course snaps from Dale Fort and Skomer - porpoise, puffin, greater pipefish (seahorse relative - male broods young) and a ruby-tailed wasp.