Little is known about the influence of the urban environments on bat species 'ecology. The
urbanization process potentially lead to critical ecological changes in bat communities' intra
and interspecific pathogenic transmissions dynamics. To date, the monitoring of pathogens
in bats in Brazil has only been done with bats found dead or alive in households, from rabies
surveillance systems. The present work aimed to investigate how urbanization influenced
bat richness, relative abundance and pathogen occurrence. Most captured bats were …

Of the 181 Brazilian bat species (Mammalia: Chiroptera), 46, 7% occur in urban areas.
However, little is known about the influence of these environments on species' ecology, and
few studies about urban bat community structure in Brazil have been published to date. The
urbanization process, however, potentially lead to critical ecological changes in bat
communities' intra and interspecific pathogenic transmissions dynamics. Conversely, few
published papers detected pathogens in urban bats. The present work aimed to perform bat …