Global climate change could devastate bat populations around the world, threatening to tear yet another thread from the tapestry of biodiversity should current temperature trends persist, according to a new study.
"Bats were the focus for this study because they are relatively understudied but due to their sensitivity to environmental stress, they are excellent indicators of climate change," Hayley Ann Sherwin, co-author of the paper published in Mammal Review, with the Queen University in Belfast, told mongabay.com.
Hayley, along with Ian Montgomery and Mathieu Lundy, analyzed 47 species, across Europe and Northern Africa, and found that 38 of 47 (81 percent) species were at risk from climate change.
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