African Bat Database

<p dir="ltr">Database of bat records for species located in Africa. It contains 17285 unique locality records of 266 species of bats.</p><p dir="ltr">Metadata</p><ul><li>Family: family of bat record;</li><li>Genus: genus of bat record;</li><li>Species: species of bat record;</li><li>Museum_number: the museum accession number of the bat record;</li><li>Date: the date on which the bat was recorded;</li><li>Year: the year in which the bat was recorded;</li><li>Country: the country in which the bat was recorded;</li><li>Location: the name of the location or locality that the bat was recorded;</li><li>Latitude: the latitude in decimal degrees of the record;</li><li>Longitude: the longitude in decimal degrees of the record;</li><li>Reference: the source of the record;</li><li>Holotype: whether the record is a type specimen;</li><li>Checked: whether the bat specimen was examined by the authors.</li></ul><p dir="ltr">R scripts</p><ul><li>1_african bats_maxent models_all_species.R provides code to run maxent models for each African bat species</li><li>2_aoo-eoo.R script to calculate EOO (extent of occurrence) and AOO (area of occupancy) for African bats</li></ul><p><br></p>