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Underrepresentation of bats in Africa's protected areasNARA Subscribed
Biodiversity is severely threatened globally, with habitat loss and other human pressures accelerating species extinctions. Protected areas (PAs) are a critical conservation tool; however, their effectiveness in safeguarding many taxa, such as bats, remains unclear. Using georeferenced occurrence records and species distribution models (SDMs) for 263 sub‐Saharan African bat species, we evaluated the coverage of bats in 7875 te...
How do social media posts enhance public interest in a citizen science project? Insights from the Bat Monitoring ProgrammeNARA Subscribed
Citizen science has become an essential tool to gather vast amounts of environmental data worldwide. While the power of social media for marketing campaigns is well documented, few studies have focused on optimizing its content in the context of citizen science. Using the Bat Monitoring Programme (BMP) as a model system and based on a 1-year-long dataset, this article investigates how social media content impacts website traff...
Aim The urgency for remote, reliable and scalable biodiversity monitoring amidst mounting human pressures on ecosystems has sparked worldwide interest in Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM), which can track life underwater and on land. However, we lack a unified methodology to report this sampling effort and a comprehensive overview of PAM coverage to gauge its potential as a global research and monitoring tool. To address this...
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