A Recent Inventory of the Bats of Mozambique with Documentation of Seven New Species for the Country

Monadjem, Ara; Schoeman, M. Corrie; Reside, April E.; Pio, Dorothea; Stoffberg, Samantha; Bayliss, Julian; Cotterill, F.P.D.; Curran, Michael; Kopp, Mirjam; Taylor, Peter J.

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“…However, further testing across a range of representative gradients is recommended, particularly within the unique geological and climatic context of the African continent, for which our study is the first. Coastal and montane forests across East and Southern Africa are known to be important centres of bat diversity and endemism (Cockle et al 1998, Kock et al 2000, Monadjem et al 2010. We recorded important distributional records of forest-associated species such as Myonycteris relicta and Lissonycteris angolensis, for which isolated montane forests likely constitute important regional stepping stones of habitat.…”

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Species diversity of bats along an altitudinal gradient on Mount Mulanje, southern Malawi

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A climate model, based on effects of water availability and temperature, was recently proposed to explain global variation in bat species richness along altitudinal gradients. Yet such studies are sparse in the tropics and nearabsent in Africa. Here we present results from an altitudinal study of bat diversity from Mount Mulanje, Malawi. Using ground nets, canopy nets and harp traps, we sampled eight sites across three habitat zones from 630 m to 2010 m asl. We assessed the influence of climatic, geographic and biotic variables on measures of estimated species richness, Fisher's α, and an unbiased index of compositional turnover. We recorded 723 individuals and 30 species along the gradient, revealing a 'low plateau' pattern in estimated species richness, peaking at 1220 m, which is congruent with the global climate model. Measures of local habitat structure significantly explained a large degree of variation in species richness and compositional turnover between sites. Fisher's α was further significantly correlated to mean annual relative humidity, suggesting a background climatic influence.

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“…Before 2010, the most recent species inventory was compiled in 1976 (Smithers and Lobão Tello 1976), and it largely ignored the northern half of the country (Monadjem et al 2010b). Though an inventory was published in 2010 (Monadjem et al 2010a), many areas of Mozambique remain under-surveyed, and some of the northern parts continue to lack data entirely (Van Cakenberghe 2013).…”

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African Bats: Conservation in the time of Ebola

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Introduction:Bats are among the most poorly studied mammals, despite their diversity and important ecological services. The ongoing Ebola epidemic in western Africa underscores the increasingly recognized role of bats as reservoirs for emerging human diseases. An understanding of the mechanisms supporting pathogen maintenance in bat hosts is essential to informing future public health measures, as well as conservation efforts for wild bat populations. This is crucial in Africa, where the human population is burgeoning, increasing habitat loss and human contact with wildlife.The importance of natural history. The natural history and ecology of bats, especially in Africa, is poorly understood, making responsible management decisions difficult. Metrics for guiding management of pathogens and their host populations, such as critical community size and minimum viable population size, often require more natural history knowledge than we currently have available. We argue that management action without adequate research can lead to counterproductive results. In the past, fear-based management responses such as culling campaigns have counterintuitively increased the prevalence of pathogens in the target host population, as has been observed in the vampire bat-rabies system and the Egyptian fruit bat-Marburg system.Bat conservation in the time of Ebola. Many of the same anthropogenic stressors that are threatening bat populations, such as habitat loss and hunting, are also likely drivers of zoonotic pathogen emergence. Given this, and given that reducing bat populations can increase rather than decrease pathogen prevalence, we argue that conservation measures for bats should be strengthened in this time of Ebola. We offer a few potential first steps. Conclusions and Future Directions:We advocate the precautionary principle, and encourage significant and urgent increases in natural history studies, education, and conservation measures for African bats.

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“…Our additional records, however, suggest that it might be present in the fringes of the rain forest and other forest types and savannas reaching to the Kenyan and Tanzanian coast in the east and Sierra Leone and Guinea in the west. Although Fahr (2013o: 586) considers thomasi to be a subspecies of M. moloneyi, we follow Cotterill (2001b: 215), who proposed that the two are distinct evolutionary species, a view that was followed by Monadjem et al (2010aMonadjem et al ( : 390, 2010b. The distribution map presented by Monadjem et al (2010b: 444) indicates that M. thomasi occurs in the northern part of southern Africa, from Angola over southern DRC, Zambia and Zimbabwe to western and northern Mozambique.…”

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The bats of the Congo and of Rwanda and Burundi revisited (Mammalia: Chiroptera)

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Akawa

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Abstract. In 1966, Robert William Hayman, Xavier Misonne and Walter Verheyen published their listing of the Congolese, Rwandan and Burundian bat specimens in the collections in the museums of Tervuren, Brussels, Geneva, London and New York. In the fifty years that have passed since, some major changes have been introduced in the taxonomy of the Chiroptera: new species have been discovered, species have been split off, species have been moved to other genera, and additional material has been collected. We re-evaluated the data presented by Hayman et al., and supplemented this with specimen records found in the literature and in online catalogs. This resulted in 136 species, represented by 20 231 specimens (compared to 113 species and 8567 specimens originally). When available, we also recorded additional information such as locality, sex and age, collector, collection date and preservation type of the voucher specimen. The distribution maps of the Congolese taxa are revised to represent the current taxonomy, and are presented in perspective against the taxon's Species Distribution Model to assess species distribution on the African continent. Additionally, an updated key to the various taxa is presented.

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A Recent Inventory of the Bats of Mozambique with Documentation of Seven New Species for the Country

Cited by 29 publications

References 22 publications

Species diversity of bats along an altitudinal gradient on Mount Mulanje, southern Malawi

Species diversity of bats along an altitudinal gradient on Mount Mulanje, southern Malawi

African Bats: Conservation in the time of Ebola

The bats of the Congo and of Rwanda and Burundi revisited (Mammalia: Chiroptera)

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