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The Anthropocene is the “age of human influence”, an epoch well known for its urban impact. More than half of all people already live in cities, and this proportion is expected to rise to almost 70 percent by 2050. Like other species in urban areas, bats must contend with the pressures of profound and irreversible land cover change and overcome certain unique challenges, such as the high density of roads, lights, glass, and free-ranging domestic animals. Research on urban bats in recent decades indicates that when it comes to urban life, some bats are synanthropes. In other words, although most species of bats are negatively impacted by urbanisation, many appear to not only succeed, but also thrive in cities and towns. This observation has inspired interesting questions about bats in relation to urbanisation. Which traits and behaviours equip bats for urban success? What features of urban areas increase the likelihood that bats will successfully persist there or even colonize new areas? And how does the success of urban bats affect co-habiting humans? Our book explores the interactions between bats and urban environments through case studies and reviews. Understanding how different species interact with urban environments can reveal potential opportunities to mitigate urban threats to bats and threats posed by bats to other urban organisms, including humans. With this book, we thus aspire to provide a knowledge base to help guide current and future efforts to conserve bats.
Bats --- Urban animals --- בעלי חיים עירוניים --- City animals --- City fauna --- Urban fauna --- Urban wildlife --- Animals --- עטלפים --- Cheiroptera --- Chiroptera --- Chiropterans --- Mammals --- Urban ecology (Biology). --- Population biology. --- Vertebrates. --- Conservation biology. --- Ecology. --- Evolutionary genetics. --- Urban Ecology. --- Population Dynamics. --- Vertebrate Zoology. --- Conservation Biology. --- Evolutionary Genetics. --- Genetic evolution --- Evolution (Biology) --- Genetics --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Ecology --- Nature conservation --- Vertebrata --- Chordata --- Cities and towns --- City ecology (Biology) --- Environmental aspects --- Bats. --- Urban animals. --- Ratapinyades --- Fauna urbana
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This monograph is about new perspectives in animal studies methodology, by using concepts and tools from the field of semiotics. It proposes a reflexion on current challenges and issues in the ethology field, and introduces different semiotics – biosemiotics, zoosemiotics – as potential methodological solutions. The chapters cover many aspects of ethology where semiotics can be a helpful hand: studies of language, culture, cognition or emotions, issues about complex, endangered or variable species. It explains why these points are difficult to study for actual ethology, why they still matter for researchers, biodiversity actors or wildlife programs, and how an interdisciplinary study with a semiotic point of view can help understand them. This book will appeal to a wide readership, from researchers and academics in living sciences as well as in linguistics fields, to other professionals – veterinarian, wildlife managers, zookeepers, and many others – who feel the need to better understand some aspects of animals they are working with. Students with animal focus should read this book as an introduction to interdisciplinary methodology, and a proposition to work differently with animals.
Life sciences. --- Semiotics. --- Linguistics—Methodology. --- Life Sciences, general. --- Research Methods in Language and Linguistics. --- Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary. --- Semeiotics --- Semiology (Linguistics) --- Semantics --- Signs and symbols --- Structuralism (Literary analysis) --- Biosciences --- Sciences, Life --- Science --- Animal communication. --- Animal biocommunication --- Animal language --- Biocommunication, Animal --- Language learning by animals --- Animal behavior --- Animals --- Semiòtica --- Semiologia (Lingüística) --- Semàntica --- Simbolisme --- Anàlisi del discurs --- Intertextualitat --- Multimodalitat --- Onomasiologia --- Simbolisme fònic --- Semiòtica de l'arquitectura --- Regne animal --- Vida (Biologia) --- Fauna aquàtica --- Animals de caça --- Animals en perill d'extinció --- Animals exòtics --- Animals nocturns --- Animals perillosos --- Animals salvatges --- Cordats --- Carnívors --- Fauna urbana --- Herbívors --- Invertebrats --- Metazous --- Poiquiloterms --- Relacions home-animal --- Vertebrats --- Animalitat (Filosofia) --- Productes d'origen animal --- Fauna --- Zoologia --- Linguistics --- Social sciences. --- Humanities. --- Life Sciences. --- Humanities and Social Sciences. --- Methodology. --- Learning and scholarship --- Classical education --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization
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