Applying genomic approaches to identify historic population declines in European forest bats ...

• Main Author: Razgour, Orly
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2022
• Subjects: FOS Biological sciences; biodiversity loss; conservation genomics; landscape genetics; Approximate Bayesian Computations ABC; ddRADseq; demographic history; Bats; land use change; Barbastella barbastellus
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.wstqjq2qd; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.wstqjq2qd

Anthropogenically-driven environmental changes over the past two centuries have led to severe biodiversity loss, most prominently in the form of loss of populations and individuals. Better tools are needed to assess the magnitude of these wildlife population declines. Anecdotal evidence suggests European bat populations have suffered substantial declines in the past few centuries. However, there is little empirical evidence of these declines that can be used to put more recent population changes into historic context and set appropriate targets for species recovery. This study is a collaboration between academics and conservation practitioners to develop molecular approaches capable of providing quantitative evidence of historic population changes and their drivers that can inform the assessment of conservation status and conservation management. We generated a genomic dataset for the Western barbastelle, Barbastella barbastellus, a globally Near Threatened and regionally Vulnerable bat species, including ... : SNP datasets were generated from ddRADseq data for the western barbastelle bat, Barbastella barbastellus, from Britain, Spain and Portugal. SNPs called with Stacks and filtered in Plink to remove SNPs with >10% missing data. SNP datasets in vcf format. ...