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Bats are key to pest control in agriculture

Scientists from the University of the Basque Country and the Doñana Biological Station – CSIC has studied a colony of bent-winged bat in the southern Iberian Peninsula. This colony of bats can eliminate up to 60,000 of processionary moths every night during August and September

Predation by owls affects the survival of the colony of greater noctule bats in Doñana

A research team of the Doñana Biological Station – CSIC has found that greater noctule bats, one of the most threatened bat species in Europe, do not change their shelter when facing predation risk.
The increase in these deaths might be related to the lack of alternative roosts due to the loss of habitat and breeding areas because of human activity

Wind farms kill almost a million bats a year in Spain

A third of species present in Spain are threatened. More than half of them are victims of wind turbines.

A stem cell study reveals that bats have evolved virus tolerance mechanisms

This finding, with the participation of CSIC, could shed light on the unique properties of bats in relation to their remarkable anti-ageing and anti-cancer responses.
Published in the journal Cell, the methodology developed has made possible to obtain the first induced stem cells from bats and opens the way to study how viruses behave.

El CSIC advierte de que la biodiversidad de los ecosistemas alpinos africanos está en extinción por la presión humana

The conservation of tropical montane biodiversity requires a holistic approach, using genetic, ecological and geographic information to understand the effects of environmental changes across temporal scales and simultaneously addressing the impacts of multiple threats. This problem is especially acute in understudied and highly threatened areas like the Ethiopian Highlands, where accelerated land conversion and degradation is placing further pressures on biodiversity.
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