Study confirms highways are bad news for several bat species

Friday, May 16, 2014 - 07:30 in Biology & Nature

(Phys.org) —Large roads and highways have been shown to reduce the numbers of many species that live near them. Previously, this effect has been mostly studied in birds. But a recent research paper, published in the science journal PLOS ONE, has shown that close proximity to highways reduces the activity of four bat species native to California.

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