The DarkCideS database started from the development of the “Bat Cave Vulnerability Index (BCVI)” project led by KCT, JAG, and ACH as part of the “Global Bat Cave Vulnerability and Conservation Mapping Initiative” in 2014, and later with the “Mapping Karst Biodiversity in Yunnan” and the “Southeast Asian Atlas of Biodiversity” projects awarded to Professor Alice C Hughes. In 2019-2020, the core team expand the project and invited colleagues working on bat cave ecology and conservation to promote wider collaboration and exchange, and eventually create a consortium to facilitate continuous and centralised data-sharing.
Currently, the DarkCideS consortium is composed of 36 collaborating members from twenty countries on six continents with expertise and research interests in bat conservation.
Project leaders
Krizler C. Tanalgo Landscape Ecology Group, Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yunnan, P.R. China/ Ecology and Conservation Research Lab (Eco/Con), Department of Biological Sciences, College of Science and Mathematics, University of Southern Mindanao, North Cotabato, Philippines
Alice C. Hughes Landscape Ecology Group, Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yunnan, P.R. China / School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
Collaborators
John Aries G. Tabora Department of Biological Sciences, College of Science and Mathematics, University of Southern Mindanao, North Cotabato, Philippine
Hernani Fernandes Magalhães Oliveira Department of Zoology, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil
Danny Haelewaters Research Group Mycology, Department of Biology, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium; Operation Wallacea Ltd, Wallace House, Old Bolingbroke, Lincolnshire, PE23 4EX, United Kingdom; Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic
Chad T. Beranek School of Environmental and Life Sciences, Biology Building, University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan NSW 2308, Australia; FAUNA Research Alliance, PO Box 5092, Kahibah, NSW 2290, Australia
Aída Otálora-Ardila Grupo en Conservación y Manejo de Vida Silvestre, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia; Laboratório de Ciência Aplicada à Conservação da Biodiversidade, Department of Zoology, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil
Enrico Bernard Laboratório de Ciência Aplicada à Conservação da Biodiversidade, Department of Zoology, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil
Fernando Gonçalves Department of Biodiversity, Institute of Bioscience, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Rio Claro, São Paulo, Brazil; Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Alan Eriksson Programa de Pós‐Graduação em Ecologia e Conservação, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Brazil
Melissa Donnelly Proyecto CUBABAT, Calle América # 6503 (Altos) e/ Jáuregui y Santa Isabel. 40100, Matanzas. Cuba
Joel Monzón González Proyecto CUBABAT, Calle América # 6503 (Altos) e/ Jáuregui y Santa Isabel. 40100, Matanzas. Cuba; Fundación “Antonio Núñez Jiménez” de la Naturaleza y el Hombre, Calle 5ta B, No. 6611 e/ 66 y 70, Miramar, Playa, La Habana Cuba; Sociedad Espeleológica de Cuba (SEC), Calle 9na. #8402 e/ 84 y 84ª. Playa. La Habana, Cuba
Humberto Fernandez Ramos Proyecto CUBABAT, Calle América # 6503 (Altos) e/ Jáuregui y Santa Isabel. 40100, Matanzas. Cuba; Sociedad Espeleológica de Cuba (SEC), Calle 9na. #8402 e/ 84 y 84ª. Playa. La Habana, Cuba
Alberto Clark Rivas Proyecto CUBABAT, Calle América # 6503 (Altos) e/ Jáuregui y Santa Isabel. 40100, Matanzas. Cuba; Sociedad Espeleológica de Cuba (SEC), Calle 9na. #8402 e/ 84 y 84ª. Playa. La Habana, Cuba
Paul W. Webala Department of Forestry and Wildlife Management, Maasai Mara University, Narok, Kenya
Stanimira Deleva Sede del Sur, Universidad de Costa Rica, 4000 Alamedas, Golfito 60701, Costa Rica; National Museum of Natural History-Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
Ridha Dalhoumi Laboratoire de Biosurveillance de l’Environnement, Faculté des Sciences de Bizerte, Université de Carthage, 7021 Zarzouna, Tunisia
Jaycelle Maula Department of Biology, Southern Luzon State University, Lucban, Quezon, Philippines
Dennis Lizarro Centro de Investigación de Recursos Acuáticos, Universidad Autónoma del Beni “José Ballivián” (CIRA-UABJB). Campus “Dr. Hernán Melgar Justiniano”, Santísima Trinidad, Beni, Bolivia; Programa para la Conservación de los Murciélagos de Bolivia. Cochabamba y Beni, Bolivia
Luis F. Aguirre Programa para la Conservación de los Murciélagos de Bolivia. Cochabamba y Beni, Bolivia; Centro de Biodiversidad y Genética, Universidad Mayor de San Simón, Casilla 538, Cochabamba, Bolivia
Nils Bouillard Barbastella Echology, Gentpoortstraat 50, 9800 Deinze, Belgium
Ma. Niña Regina M. Quibod Center for Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yunnan, P.R. China; International College of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China; Museum of Natural History of the University of the Philippines, Los Banos, Laguna, Philippines
Jennifer Barros Laboratório de Ciência Aplicada à Conservação da Biodiversidade, Department of Zoology, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil
Manfredo Alejandro Turcios-Casco Asociación para la Sostenibilidad e Investigación Científica en Honduras (ASICH). Barrio La Granja, entre 28 y 29 calle, C. P. 504. Comayagüela M.D.C. Francisco Morazán, Honduras
Marcio Martínez Asociación para la Sostenibilidad e Investigación Científica en Honduras (ASICH). Barrio La Granja, entre 28 y 29 calle, C. P. 504. Comayagüela M.D.C. Francisco Morazán, Honduras
Diego Iván Ordoñez-Mazier Asociación para la Sostenibilidad e Investigación Científica en Honduras (ASICH). Barrio La Granja, entre 28 y 29 calle, C. P. 504. Comayagüela M.D.C. Francisco Morazán, Honduras
José Alejandro Soler Orellana Asociación para la Sostenibilidad e Investigación Científica en Honduras (ASICH). Barrio La Granja, entre 28 y 29 calle, C. P. 504. Comayagüela M.D.C. Francisco Morazán, Honduras
Eduardo J. Ordoñez-Trejo Asociación para la Sostenibilidad e Investigación Científica en Honduras (ASICH). Barrio La Granja, entre 28 y 29 calle, C. P. 504. Comayagüela M.D.C. Francisco Morazán, Honduras
Danny Ordoñez Asociación para la Sostenibilidad e Investigación Científica en Honduras (ASICH). Barrio La Granja, entre 28 y 29 calle, C. P. 504. Comayagüela M.D.C. Francisco Morazán, Honduras
Ada Chornelia Landscape Ecology Group, Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yunnan, P.R. China
Jian Mei Lu Landscape Ecology Group, Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yunnan, P.R. China
Chen Xing School of Zoology, Faculty of Life sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Sanjeev Baniya National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore, India
Renata L. Muylaert Molecular Epidemiology and Public Health Laboratory, Hopkirk Research Institute, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Leonardo Henrique Dias-Silva Laboratório de Mastozoologia do Departamento de Biologia Animal da Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Minas Gerais – Brasil
Nittaya Ruadreo Division of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand
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