Language: Swedish
Experiences of bats are for most people limited to a dark shadow that flutters by at dusk, unpredictable and a little mysterious.
In fact, the summer night airspace teems with bats. But they are shy and we cannot hear their screams in the night. If, on the other hand, you get an ultrasound detector, you soon discover a whole new world of diversity. There are as many as nineteen different species in Sweden. All can be distinguished by the sound, as long as you have an ultrasound detector. Some are very common and can be found almost everywhere, others are extremely rare. The rarest of our nineteen species have actually never been seen in Sweden, only heard with the help of an ultrasound detector. Humans and bats are intimately connected and we have always had them close to us. They like to live in our houses, just like us they like to have a bit of greenery around them with deciduous trees, ponds and watercourses, because these are environments that provide a rich presence of insects. But the bats also provide us humans with a lot of important services, what we call ecosystem services. Globally, bats play an important role in pollination, seed dispersal, pest control, and their droppings are used as high-quality fertilizer. Unfortunately, not everything we do is positive for the bats. Thousands of bats die from wind turbines, our roads and railways split up the forest landscape and create barriers for bats, reducing their chances of survival. Our agriculture and forestry are not always so favorable for bats, and light pollution is a growing problem. But it is actually possible to combine nature management and exploitation with a rich bat fauna. In this book we show you how to do it. Here you also get to know our 19 species, both in appearance and sound, and we show how you can more easily get to know this hidden diversity.
Product information
Author: Johnny de Jong
Illustrator: Disa Eklöf
Designer: Håkan Tunón
Editor: Håkan Tunón
Edition: 1
ISBN: 9789188083401
Language: Swedish
Weight: 536 grams
Released: 2023-12-08
Publisher: Center for Biological Diversity
Pages: 119