This book explores the importance of understanding developmental processes in analyses of bat ecology and evolution.

In recent years researchers have discovered that bats play key roles in many ecosystems as insect predators, seed dispersers, and pollinators. Bats also display

This book explores the rich evolutionary history of bats from multiple perspectives, presenting some of the most remarkable discoveries involving fossil bats.

Every three years a major international conference on bats draws the leading workers in the field to a carefully orchestrated presentation of the research and a

Recent advances in the study of bats have changed the way we understand this illusive group of mammals. This volume consist of 25 chapters and 57 authors from a