What is the value of riparian forest strips for bat conservation?

By | March 28th, 2019|Amazon, bats, biodiversity, development, graduate students, Peru|

Hot off the press!  Dr. Farah Carrasco Ruedo (PhD 2018, UF) studied this question for her dissertation research in a recently converted forest destined for palm production in the Amazon of north-central Peru.  Her results were just published in Ecology and Evolution and can be found here.  These riparian forest strips add important habitat diversity [...]