Human impacts on bats in tropical ecosystems: sustainable actions and alternatives

Abstract

1 Programa de Po´ s-Graduac¸ão em Ecologia, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazoˆ nia, Manaus, Brazil, 2Instituto Tecnolo´ gico Vale, Bele´ m, Brazil, 3Terrestrial Ecology Group (TEG-UAM), Departamento de Ecolog´ıa, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Auto´ noma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 4Centro de Investigacio´ n en Biodiversidad y Cambio Global (CIBC-UAM), Universidad Auto´ noma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 5Programa de Po´ s-Graduac¸ão em Biodiversidade Tropical, Universidade Federal do Amapa´, Macapa´, Brazil, 6cE3c-Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes & CHANGE - Global Change and Sustainability Institute, Departamento de Biologia Animal, Faculdade de Cieˆ ncias, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, 7 Department of Forestry and Wildlife Management, Maasai Mara University, Narok, Kenya, 8Laboratory of Bat Biology and Conservation, Department of Zoology, Biological Science Institute, University of Bras´ılia, Bras´ılia, Brazil KEYWORDS agricultural systems, Chiroptera, ecosystem services, landscape change, mining, replacing native vegetation, rubber plantation, selective logging