African Bat Database

Database of bat records for species located in Africa. It contains 17285 unique locality records of 266 species of bats.

Metadata

• Family: family of bat record;
• Genus: genus of bat record;
• Species: species of bat record;
• Museum_number: the museum accession number of the bat record;
• Date: the date on which the bat was recorded;
• Year: the year in which the bat was recorded;
• Country: the country in which the bat was recorded;
• Location: the name of the location or locality that the bat was recorded;
• Latitude: the latitude in decimal degrees of the record;
• Longitude: the longitude in decimal degrees of the record;
• Reference: the source of the record;
• Holotype: whether the record is a type specimen;
• Checked: whether the bat specimen was examined by the authors.

R scripts

• 1_african bats_maxent models_all_species.R provides code to run maxent models for each African bat species
• 2_aoo-eoo.R script to calculate EOO (extent of occurrence) and AOO (area of occupancy) for African bats