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Do you think identifying bats in Europe or in North America is
difficult? Well, try it in the Amazon. The planet's green lung is
home to the most diverse bat communities on the planet with more
than 160 species currently described. Local species richness often
surpasses 100 and for many, their identification in the field is,
to say the least, challenging. This task will now become easier
with the publication of the Field Guide to the Bats of the Amazon:
a landmark handbook aimed at facilitating species identification in
the field. The book, written and designed by an international bat
research team mainly based in the University of Lisbon in
collaboration with the National Institute of Amazonian Research
(INPA), is a guide for anyone conducting field work on bats in the
Amazon or interested in bat biodiversity. It is largely based on
previous published keys with modifications derived from both
personal observations and years of field experience in the
Brazilian Amazon at the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments
Project (BDFFP), as well as a thorough revision of available bat
keys and species descriptions. The field guide also features the
first acoustic key for Amazonian bats, illustrated with the
echolocation spectrogram of most species. This represents a major
step towards alleviating the daunting task of identifying the
numerous species of aerial insectivorous bats that occur in the
Amazon based on their echolocation calls. It further constitutes an
important tool to improving the knowledge and optimizing surveys of
aerial insectivorous Neotropical bats, a group which remains
largely understudied. The field guide provides an essential tool,
not only for researchers, but also for bat conservationists,
consultancies and anyone interested in Neotropical bats in general,
and Amazonian bats in particular.
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