Old World Fruit Bats

An Action Plan for their Conservation

Compiled by
Simon P. Mickleburgh, Anthony M. Hutson and Paul A. Racey

Cover Photo: Epauletted fruit bat Epomophorus sp. with half-eaten many tropical plants (Photo by K. Taylor/Bruce Coleman Ltd). fruit of wild fig Ficus sp. Fruit bats are important dispersal

DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.CH.1992.SSC-AP.6.en
ISBN: 2-8317-0055-8

  IUCN/SSC Chiroptera Specialist Group


 Index

Foreword

Information for this Title

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. A Catalogue of the Family Pteropodidae

Chapter 3. Species Accounts

Chapter 4. Centres of Biological Diversity

Chapter 5. Recommended Action for the Conservation of Threatened Fruit Bats

Chapter 6. Survey Techniques for Fruit Bats

Chapter 7. Captive Breeding and Translocation of Fruit Bats

Chapter 8. Twenty High Priority Projects

Addendum

References

Appendix 1. Plants Utilized by Fruit Bats

Appendix 2. Geographical Units Used in Biodiversity Analysis

Appendix 3. Distribution of Fruit Bats