UT professor finds economic importance of bats in the billions
Thursday, March 31, 2011 - 13:31
in Biology & Nature
Bats in North America are under a two-pronged attack but they are not the only victim so is the U.S. economy. Gary McCracken, head of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, analyzed the economic impact of the loss of bats in North America in agriculture and found it to be in the $3.7 to $53 billion a year range.