O impacto da síndrome do nariz-branco no estado de conservação dos morcegos norte-americanos

• Autor(a) principal: Alves, Davi Mello Cunha Crescente
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/3807
• topic: Modelos de nicho ecológico; Biologia da conservação; IUCN; Emerging infectious disease; Ecological niche model; IUCN; Conservation actions; MAXENT; CIENCIAS BIOLOGICAS::ECOLOGIA

The White-Nose syndrome is an emergent infectious disease that had already killed almost six millions North American bats and spread more than two thousand kilometers. Even so, studies about their possible impacts upon hosts are still lacking, principally upon all the susceptible North American bats. We predicted the consequences of the WNS spread in the North American hosts by generating an environmental suitability map for the disease, and then, we overlaid with the extension of occurrence of all hibernating bats in North America. We assumed that all intersection localities will somehow negatively affect bat’s local populations, and we reassessed their conservation status based on their potential population reduction. 16% of the North American hibernating bat fauna were considered threatened under this WNS potential spread. We believe our results could contribute with governments conservation actions.