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1. Rediscovery of the critically endangered Hill's horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus hilli) and other new records of bat species in Rwanda

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Jon Flanders, Winifred Frick, Julius Nziza, Olivier Nsengimana, Prince Kaleme, Marie Claire Dusabe, Innocent Ndikubwimana, Innocent Twizeyimana, Sospeter Kibiwot, Pierre Ntihemuka, Tina Cheng, Richard Muvunyi, and Paul Webala

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Afromontane rainforest, Albertine Rift, Nyungwe Na, Biology (General), QH301-705.5
Abstract

For forty years, there has been growing uncertainty about whether Hill's horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus hilli) still persists in Nyungwe National Park, Rwanda. Only known from one small area within the National Park, R. hilli is listed as Critically Endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), based on its extremely small geographic range and presumed low number of mature individuals. Here, we present and describe bat species occurrence data contributed to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) that we collected as part of a long-term collaborative project to rediscover this lost species. This data paper describes the survey methods and findings resulting from cave roost surveys, capture surveys, and acoustic sampling of bat echolocation activity in Nyungwe National Park and surrounding areas in south-western Rwanda from 2013-2020 and their conservation relevance.We report the discovery of an extant population of Hill's horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus hilli) in Nyungwe National Park, Rwanda, 40 years since the last reported observation of the species in 1981. We also report the first record of Lander's horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus landeri) in Nyungwe National Park and the first record of the Damara woolly bat (Kerivoula argentata) in Rwanda. The dataset contributed to GBIF and described in this paper includes 278 occurrence records from 10 bat species of five families detected at 71 locations in or near Nyungwe National Park, Rwanda. We include a description of the morphological descriptions of R. hilli and present the first acoustic echolocation signatures and phylogenetic information for this species.

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2022
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2. Our good neighbors: Understanding ecosystem services provided by insectivorous bats in Rwanda.

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Olivier Nsengimana, Faith M Walker, Paul W Webala, Innocent Twizeyimana, Marie-Claire Dusabe, Daniel E Sanchez, Colin J Sobek, Deo Ruhagazi, Peace Iribagiza, Richard Muvunyi, and Rodrigo A Medellin

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Medicine, Science
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Bats are prodigious consumers of agricultural and forest pests, and are, therefore, a natural asset for agricultural productivity, suppressing populations of such pests. This study provides baseline information of diet of 143 bats belonging to eight insectivorous bat species from agricultural areas of Rwanda while evaluating the effectiveness of bats as pest suppressors. Using DNA metabarcoding to analyze bat fecal pellets, 85 different insect species were detected, with 60% (n = 65), 64% (n = 11) and 78% (n = 9) found to be agricultural pests from eastern, northern and western regions, respectively. Given the high percentages of agricultural pests detected, we submit that Rwandan insectivorous bats have the capacity for biocontrol of agricultural pests. Rwandan bat populations should be protected and promoted since they may foster higher crop yields and sustainable livelihoods.

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2023
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3. Biological Earth observation with animal sensors

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Walter Jetz, Grigori Tertitski, Roland Kays, Uschi Mueller, Martin Wikelski, Susanne Åkesson, Yury Anisimov, Aleksey Antonov, Walter Arnold, Franz Bairlein, Oriol Baltà, Diane Baum, Mario Beck, Olga Belonovich, Mikhail Belyaev, Matthias Berger, Peter Berthold, Steffen Bittner, Stephen Blake, Barbara Block, Daniel Bloche, Katrin Boehning-Gaese, Gil Bohrer, Julia Bojarinova, Gerhard Bommas, Oleg Bourski, Albert Bragin, Alexandr Bragin, Rachel Bristol, Vojtěch Brlík, Victor Bulyuk, Francesca Cagnacci, Ben Carlson, Taylor K. Chapple, Kalkidan F. Chefira, Yachang Cheng, Nikita Chernetsov, Grzegorz Cierlik, Simon S. Christiansen, Oriol Clarabuch, William Cochran, Jamie Margaret Cornelius, Iain Couzin, Margret C. Crofoot, Sebastian Cruz, Alexander Davydov, Sarah Davidson, Stefan Dech, Dina Dechmann, Ekaterina Demidova, Jan Dettmann, Sven Dittmar, Dmitry Dorofeev, Detlev Drenckhahn, Vladimir Dubyanskiy, Nikolay Egorov, Sophie Ehnbom, Diego Ellis-Soto, Ralf Ewald, Chris Feare, Igor Fefelov, Péter Fehérvári, Wolfgang Fiedler, Andrea Flack, Magnus Froböse, Ivan Fufachev, Pavel Futoran, Vyachaslav Gabyshev, Anna Gagliardo, Stefan Garthe, Sergey Gashkov, Luke Gibson, Wolfgang Goymann, Gerd Gruppe, Chris Guglielmo, Phil Hartl, Anders Hedenström, Arne Hegemann, Georg Heine, Mäggi Hieber Ruiz, Heribert Hofer, Felix Huber, Edward Hurme, Fabiola Iannarilli, Marc Illa, Arkadiy Isaev, Bent Jakobsen, Lukas Jenni, Susi Jenni-Eiermann, Brett Jesmer, Frédéric Jiguet, Tatiana Karimova, N. Jeremy Kasdin, Fedor Kazansky, Ruslan Kirillin, Thomas Klinner, Andreas Knopp, Andrea Kölzsch, Alexander Kondratyev, Marco Krondorf, Pavel Ktitorov, Olga Kulikova, R. Suresh Kumar, Claudia Künzer, Anatoliy Larionov, Christine Larose, Felix Liechti, Nils Linek, Ashley Lohr, Anna Lushchekina, Kate Mansfield, Maria Matantseva, Mikhail Markovets, Peter Marra, Juan F. Masello, Jörg Melzheimer, Myles H.M. Menz, Stephen Menzie, Swetlana Meshcheryagina, Dale Miquelle, Vladimir Morozov, Andrey Mukhin, Inge Müller, Thomas Mueller, Juan G. Navedo, Ran Nathan, Luke Nelson, Zoltán Németh, Scott Newman, Ryan Norris, Olivier Nsengimana, Innokentiy Okhlopkov, Wioleta Oleś, Ruth Oliver, Teague O’Mara, Peter Palatitz, Jesko Partecke, Ryan Pavlick, Anastasia Pedenko, Alys Perry, Julie Pham, Daniel Piechowski, Allison Pierce, Theunis Piersma, Wolfgang Pitz, Dirk Plettemeier, Irina Pokrovskaya, Liya Pokrovskaya, Ivan Pokrovsky, Morrison Pot, Petr Procházka, Petra Quillfeldt, Eldar Rakhimberdiev, Marilyn Ramenofsky, Ajay Ranipeta, Jan Rapczyński, Magdalena Remisiewicz, Viatcheslav Rozhnov, Froukje Rienks, Vyacheslav Rozhnov, Christian Rutz, Vital Sakhvon, Nir Sapir, Kamran Safi, Friedrich Schäuffelhut, David Schimel, Andreas Schmidt, Judy Shamoun-Baranes, Alexander Sharikov, Laura Shearer, Evgeny Shemyakin, Sherub Sherub, Ryan Shipley, Yanina Sica, Thomas B. Smith, Sergey Simonov, Katherine Snell, Aleksandr Sokolov, Vasiliy Sokolov, Olga Solomina, Mikhail Soloviev, Fernando Spina, Kamiel Spoelstra, Martin Storhas, Tatiana Sviridova, George Swenson, Phil Taylor, Kasper Thorup, Arseny Tsvey, Marlee Tucker, Sophie Tuppen, Woody Turner, Innocent Twizeyimana, Henk van der Jeugd, Louis van Schalkwyk, Mariëlle van Toor, Pauli Viljoen, Marcel E. Visser, Tamara Volkmer, Andrei Volkov, Sergey Volkov, Oleg Volkov, Jan A.C. von Rönn, Bernd Vorneweg, Bettina Wachter, Jonas Waldenström, Natalie Weber, Martin Wegmann, Aloysius Wehr, Rolf Weinzierl, Johannes Weppler, David Wilcove, Timm Wild, Hannah J. Williams, John Wilshire, John Wingfield, Michael Wunder, Anna Yachmennikova, Scott Yanco, Elisabeth Yohannes, Amelie Zeller, Christian Ziegler, Anna Zięcik, Cheryl Zook, University of St Andrews. School of Biology, University of St Andrews. Centre for Biological Diversity, University of St Andrews. Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolution, Piersma group, Animal Ecology (AnE), Dutch Centre for Avian Migration & Demography, and Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO)

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Conservation of Natural Resources, сбор данных, GE, Earth, Planet, QH301 Biology, Movement, T-NDAS, биологические наблюдения, Земля, планета, Animal sensors, Animal tracking-based Earth observation, QH301, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, дистанционное зондирование, Settore BIO/07 - ECOLOGIA, ddc:570, животные, Animals, Movement [MeSH], Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Conservation of Natural Resources [MeSH], Ecosystem [MeSH], Animals [MeSH], Earth, Planet [MeSH], датчики, Ecosystem, GE Environmental Sciences
Abstract

Space-based tracking technology using low-cost miniature tags is now delivering data on fine-scale animal movement at near-global scale. Linked with remotely sensed environmental data, this offers a biological lens on habitat integrity and connectivity for conservation and human health; a global network of animal sentinels of environmental change. Publisher PDF

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2022
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