Título del libro: Ecology Of Tropical Cities, Volume Ii: Biodiversity, People & Places
Título del capítulo: Bats in Tropical Cities: the Ecology in, of and for Cities
ROMEO ALBERTO SALDAÑA VAZQUEZ; ALEJANDRO ARIEL RIOS CHELEN; JORGE ERNESTO SCHONDUBE FRIEDEWOLD; RAFAEL AVILA FLORES;
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Año de publicación:
2025
Palabras clave:
Agricultural landscapes; Chiropterum; Ecological interactions; Ecosystem services; Exotic plants; Natural ecosystem; Neotropics; Paleotropic; Urbanization; Zoonosis
Resumen:
© 2025 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.Urbanization is the process that transforms natural ecosystems and agricultural landscapes into cities. This land-use change process usually results in biotic homogenization, species filtering, and local extinction of native species. Bats provide important ecosystem services and are the second-most rich order in terms of mammal species in the world, especially in tropical ecosystems. Therefore, mapping the information about their ecology in tropical cities is important to understand how they are responding to urbanization and to conserve the ecosystem services they provide. Based on the three paradigms of urban ecology, we synthesized the current knowledge of bat ecology in tropical cities. We made 11 literature searches on Google Scholar and Web of Science to systematically map the literature and perform a bibliometric analysis and narrative review. We revised a total of 2327 studies, of which only 72 fulfilled our selection criteria. We found that, in general, tropical cities have 50% less bat richness than natural habitats. Aerial insectivorous and frugivorous bats with higher body masses, could exploit different tropical city habitats, maintaining their ecological interactions, especially with exotic plants. The introduction of exotic plants in tropical cities promotes new ecological interactions while urban infrastructure had adverse effects on bat behavior. Finally, studies that assess the influence of laws and public policies, urban practices, infrastructure, and environmental education promoting human-bat coexistence in tropical cities are scarce. We present a list of necessary research and actions to convert tropical cities into suitable habitats for bats and people.
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ISBN:
9783031708671
Editorial:
Springer Science+Business Media
