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Bats of France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland

Friday 8 January 2010

The long awaited book of Arthur and Michele Laurent Lemaire on Bats of France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland is now available.

With this book, Michèle Lemaire and Laurent Arthur, two of the best French, synthesize all the newly acquired knowledge on the Bats in Europe. The 34 species in the francophone zone (whose 4 new discoveries in recent years) There are the subject of monographs with detailed distribution maps, sonograms… In the tradition of books of Parthenope, The reader will also find chapters on the bats in the animal kingdom, reports of the case with man, its ecology, etc.. A pocket-sized : Book a removable identification of 48 pages. Practical and suitable for field trips, It contains detailed key to identify each species.

An overview of the structure and the contents can be viewed directly on the publisher's site.

Happy reading,

Seb.

Reference book :

Arthur L., Lemaire M. (2009). Bats of France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland. Biotopes. Meze (Collection Parthenope) : National Museum of Natural History, Paris. 544p.

Couverture de l'ouvrage

Cover of the book

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Publication of the study on the head of 'White-Nose Syndrome' (Geomyces destructans) a France

Monday 4 January 2010

The article demonstrating the presence of Geomyces destructans bats in a European (Myotis myotis) just published online in the journal Emerging Infectious Disease. The article is now available online before it is published in the February issue of 2010.

The article discusses three possible scenarios :

1-The fungus just arrived in Europe and therefore put at risk species of European bats. This implies that conservation measures are in place to limit the spread of the fungus.

2-The fungus is present in Europe long. Since no mass mortality comparable to that observed in the United States has been postponed in European bats, they may be immune to the fungus.

3-The fungus is not the agent causing the death of bats but plays only a role of opportunistic bats already infected with other agents such as viruses or bacteria.

Some data presented in more detail in Article favor scenarios 2 and 3. However, a comparison of pathogens in bats European and U.S. infected with the fungus is necessary to clearly define the most likely scenario.

For more details, please refer directly to the article available here.

Seb.

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