RCN SEABCRU: The Southeast Asian Bat Conservation Research Unit

RCN SEABCRU：东南亚蝙蝠保护研究单位

• 批准号: 1051363
• 负责人: Tigga Kingston
• 金额: $ 49.99万
• 依托单位: Texas Tech University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-03-15 至 2019-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1051363&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RCN; SEABCRU; Southeast; Asian; Bat

Southeast Asia is one of the most biologically diverse regions in the world, and supports about 30% of the world's bat fauna. Bats perform critical ecosystem services as seed dispersers, pollinators and agents of pest control, but rapid land-use change and unregulated hunting imperil many of the region's species. Only 18% are considered to have stable populations and 20% of species are likely to be globally extinct by the end of this century. Moreover, bats are the natural reservoirs of numerous viruses, but there is growing consensus that it is human-induced environmental disturbances that precipitate the emergence of infectious diseases. Accurate documentation of the distribution, diversity and abundance of bat species in Southeast Asia and the responses of bats to anthropogenic activities is thus urgently needed. The goal of the South East Asian Bat Conservation Research Unit (SEABCRU) RCN is to create a network of international researchers to collate and generate these data through the implementation of research activities centered on four priority areas identified by consensus at a forum in 2007: flying fox distributions and population ecology; taxonomy and systematics; cave bat diversity and conservation; and response of forest-dependent bats to landscape change. The network will develop standardized research protocols for each priority and train Southeast Asian bat researchers in the protocols through a series of workshops. An online community of practice will be established to facilitate and promote communication among researchers to collate, synthesize, and share resulting data, and to promote effective international communication and stimulate collaboration.The SEABCRU RCN will bring together researchers from across SE Asia, the US and UK with university, museum and NGO affiliations. The research priorities will be supported by student teams that include those from 2-year colleges, four-year colleges, and graduate institutions, and combine US and SE Asian students. The project will generate unique datasets on the diversity, distribution, abundance and systematics of Southeast Asian bats critical for conservation intervention and that can greatly advance our understanding of biogeographic process, community ecology, and the ecological stressors that promote the emergence of infectious diseases in bats.

东南亚是世界上生物多样性最丰富的地区之一，并支持世界上约30%的蝙蝠动物群。蝙蝠作为种子传播者、授粉者和害虫控制者发挥着重要的生态系统服务作用，但土地使用的迅速变化和不受管制的狩猎危及该地区的许多物种。只有18%的物种被认为拥有稳定的种群，20%的物种可能在本世纪末灭绝。此外，蝙蝠是许多病毒的天然宿主，但越来越多的人认为，是人类引起的环境干扰加速了传染病的出现。因此，迫切需要准确记录东南亚蝙蝠物种的分布，多样性和丰富性以及蝙蝠对人类活动的反应。东南亚蝙蝠保护研究股区域网络的目标是建立一个国际研究人员网络，通过开展以2007年论坛上协商一致确定的四个优先领域为中心的研究活动，整理和生成这些数据：狐蝠分布和种群生态学;分类学和系统学;洞穴蝙蝠多样性和保护;以及依赖森林的蝙蝠对景观变化的反应。该网络将为每个优先事项制定标准化的研究协议，并通过一系列讲习班对东南亚蝙蝠研究人员进行协议培训。 将建立一个在线实践社区，以促进和促进研究人员之间的交流，以整理，综合和共享结果数据，并促进有效的国际交流和促进合作。SEABCRU RCN将汇集来自东南亚，美国和英国的研究人员，与大学，博物馆和非政府组织有联系。研究优先事项将得到学生团队的支持，其中包括来自两年制大学、四年制大学和研究生机构的学生团队，并由美国和东南亚学生组成联合收割机。该项目将生成关于东南亚蝙蝠多样性，分布，丰度和系统学的独特数据集，这些数据集对于保护干预至关重要，可以大大提高我们对蝙蝠地理过程，社区生态学以及促进蝙蝠出现传染病的生态压力的理解。