Intensification in land-use and farming practices has had largely negative effects on bats,
leading to population declines and concomitant losses of ecosystem services. Current …

Agriculture is a dominant land use worldwide with approximately 40% of the land's surface
used for farming. In many countries, particularly parts of Europe, this figure is substantially …

Land-use change is a key driver of the global biodiversity crisis and a particularly serious
threat to tropical biodiversity. Throughout the tropics, the staggering pace of deforestation …

Neotropical bats are sensitive to human‐induced habitat changes, and some authors
believe bats can be used as bioindicators. In the literature, however, the results are …

Understanding the effects of land conversion for livestock grazing on species diversity and
functional groups continues to be urgently needed to assess how ranching affects animal …

A significant link between forest loss and fragmentation and outbreaks of Ebola virus
disease (EVD) in humans has been documented. Deforestation may alter the natural …

Which functional traits allow a bat species to survive habitat disturbance? Empirical
evidence regarding this question remains limited for many tropical regions despite their …

Fragmentation per se due to human land conversion is a landscape‐scale phenomenon.
Accordingly, assessment of distributional patterns across a suite of potentially connected …

Mutualistic interactions between animals and plants vary over time and space based on the
abundance of fruits or animals and seasonality. Little is known about this temporal dynamic …

The Neotropical region harbors the world's most diverse terrestrial plant communities. A key
component of this diversity is a range of plant–animal interactions involving frugivory …