DarkCideS 1.0, a global database for bats in karsts and caves.
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Authors
Tabora, John Aries G
de Oliveira, Hernani Fernandes Magalhães
Otálora-Ardila, Aída
Bernard, Enrico
Eriksson, Alan
González, Joel Monzón
Ramos, Humberto Fernández
Rivas, Alberto Clark
Webala, Paul W
Deleva, Stanimira
Dalhoumi, Ridha
Maula, Jaycelle
Lizarro, Dennis
Bouillard, Nils
Quibod, Ma Niña Regina M
Turcios-Casco, Manfredo Alejandro
Martínez, Marcio
Ordoñez-Mazier, Diego Iván
Orellana, José Alejandro Soler
Ordoñez-Trejo, Eduardo J
Ordoñez, Danny
Chornelia, Ada
Lu, Jian Mei
Xing, Chen
Baniya, Sanjeev
Muylaert, Renata L
Dias-Silva, Leonardo Henrique
Ruadreo, Nittaya
Publication Date
2022-04-05Journal Title
Sci Data
ISSN
2052-4463
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Volume
9
Issue
1
Language
eng
Type
Article
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Tanalgo, K. C., Tabora, J. A. G., de Oliveira, H. F. M., Haelewaters, D., Beranek, C. T., Otálora-Ardila, A., Bernard, E., et al. (2022). DarkCideS 1.0, a global database for bats in karsts and caves.. Sci Data, 9 (1) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01234-4
Abstract
Understanding biodiversity patterns as well as drivers of population declines, and range losses provides crucial baselines for monitoring and conservation. However, the information needed to evaluate such trends remains unstandardised and sparsely available for many taxonomic groups and habitats, including the cave-dwelling bats and cave ecosystems. We developed the DarkCideS 1.0 ( https://darkcides.org/ ), a global database of bat caves and species synthesised from publicly available information and datasets. The DarkCideS 1.0 is by far the largest database for cave-dwelling bats, which contains information for geographical location, ecological status, species traits, and parasites and hyperparasites for 679 bat species are known to occur in caves or use caves in part of their life histories. The database currently contains 6746 georeferenced occurrences for 402 cave-dwelling bat species from 2002 cave sites in 46 countries and 12 terrestrial biomes. The database has been developed to be collaborative and open-access, allowing continuous data-sharing among the community of bat researchers and conservation biologists to advance bat research and comparative monitoring and prioritisation for conservation.
Keywords
Animals, Chiroptera, Ecosystem, Biodiversity, Databases, Factual
Identifiers
35383183, PMC8983664
External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01234-4
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/336905
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