
@article {109307,
	title = {DarkCideS 1.0, a global database for bats in karsts and caves.},
	journal = {Sci Data},
	volume = {9},
	year = {2022},
	month = {2022 Apr 05},
	pages = {155},
	abstract = {<p>Understanding biodiversity patterns as well as drivers of population declines, and range losses provides crucial baselines for monitoring and conservation. However, the information needed to evaluate such trends remains unstandardised and sparsely available for many taxonomic groups and habitats, including the cave-dwelling bats and cave ecosystems. We developed the DarkCideS 1.0 ( https://darkcides.org/ ), a global database of bat caves and species synthesised from publicly available information and datasets. The DarkCideS 1.0 is by far the largest database for cave-dwelling bats, which contains information for geographical location, ecological status, species traits, and parasites and hyperparasites for 679 bat species are known to occur in caves or use caves in part of their life histories. The database currently contains 6746 georeferenced occurrences for 402 cave-dwelling bat species from 2002 cave sites in 46 countries and 12 terrestrial biomes. The database has been developed to be collaborative and open-access, allowing continuous data-sharing among the community of bat researchers and conservation biologists to advance bat research and comparative monitoring and prioritisation for conservation.</p>
},
	keywords = {Animals, Biodiversity, Chiroptera, Ecosystem},
	issn = {2052-4463},
	doi = {10.1038/s41597-022-01234-4},
	author = {Tanalgo, Krizler C and Tabora, John Aries G and de Oliveira, Hernani Fernandes Magalh{\~a}es and Haelewaters, Danny and Beranek, Chad T and Ot{\'a}lora-Ardila, A{\'\i}da and Bernard, Enrico and Gon{\c c}alves, Fernando and Eriksson, Alan and Donnelly, Melissa and Gonz{\'a}lez, Joel Monz{\'o}n and Ramos, Humberto Fern{\'a}ndez and Rivas, Alberto Clark and Webala, Paul W and Deleva, Stanimira and Dalhoumi, Ridha and Maula, Jaycelle and Lizarro, Dennis and Aguirre, Luis F and Bouillard, Nils and Quibod, Ma Ni{\~n}a Regina M and Barros, Jennifer and Turcios-Casco, Manfredo Alejandro and Mart{\'\i}nez, Marcio and Ordo{\~n}ez-Mazier, Diego Iv{\'a}n and Orellana, Jos{\'e} Alejandro Soler and Ordo{\~n}ez-Trejo, Eduardo J and Ordo{\~n}ez, Danny and Chornelia, Ada and Lu, Jian Mei and Xing, Chen and Baniya, Sanjeev and Muylaert, Renata L and Dias-Silva, Leonardo Henrique and Ruadreo, Nittaya and Hughes, Alice Catherine}
}
