Nature: The cost of conservation. A new study puts a dollar amount on the cost of conserving biodiversity.
“Global biodiversity priced at $76 billion”
http://www.nature.com/news/global-biodiversity-priced-at-76-billion-1.11582
October 11, 2012 by Nature
Harvest Public Media features story on threatened bats in the Midwest
“Holy battered bats! Double menace threatens farmers’ helpers”
August 18, 2011 by Tim Lloyd
On Earth Magazine: “The Man Who Loves Bats”
Tom Kunz fights to save a vital but misunderstood creature from extinction
ScienceNews publishes “Helping Bats Hold On”
Scientists seek a savior as a deadly fungal pandemic explodes through vulnerable colonies
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/333675/title/Helping_bats_hold_on
Inside Science: “Look, Up in the Sky – It’s Aeroecology
An emerging field has researchers searching for answers in a discipline that’s quickly taking flight.
http://www.insidescience.org/current-affairs/look-up-in-the-sky-it-s-aeroecology
NSF will fund grant “The effect of sociality on transmission and spread of a multi-host pathogen”
The U.S. National Science Foundation recently notified Dr. Kunz that a recent grant proposal entitled “The effect of sociality on transmission and spread of a multi-host pathogen” (with 4 colleagues from three other universities–University of California–Santa Cruz, University of Northern Arizonia, and the University of Tennessee), will be funded for five years at $2,000,000, to investigate the seasonal and geographic spread of the fungal pathogen, Geomyces destructans, associated with white-nose syndrome, a disease that has killed more than one million hibernating bats in the northeastern U.S since 2006.
Thomas Kunz awarded “The Outstanding Edited Book Award”!
Thomas Kunz awarded “The Outstanding Edited Book Award” for his book, “Kunz, T.H. and S. Parsons (eds.). 2009. Ecological and Behavioral Methods for the Study of Bats, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD.” by The Wildlife Society. This award will be presented to Dr. Kunz on November 6, 2011, in Kona, Hawaii at The Wildlife Society’s annual meeting.