Management of vampire bats and rabies: a precaution for rewilding projects in the Neotropics

Autor(es)

Goncalves, Fernando ^{[1, 2]} ; Galetti, Mauro ^[3] ; Streicker, Daniel G. ^{[4, 5]}

Afiliação do(s) autor(es)

^[1] Univ Cambridge, Dept Zool, Conservat Sci Grp, Cambridge - England

^[2] Univ Estadual Paulista UNESP, Inst Biosci, Dept Biodivers, Rio Claro - Brazil

^[3] Univ Miami, Dept Biol, Coral Gables, FL 33124 - USA

^[4] Univ Glasgow, MRC, Ctr Virus Res, Glasgow, Lanark - Scotland

^[5] Univ Glasgow, Coll Med Vet & Life Sci, Inst Biodivers Anim Hlth & Comparat Med, Glasgow, Lanark - Scotland

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: PERSPECTIVES IN ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION; v. 19, n. 1, p. 37-42, JAN-MAR 2021.
• Citações Web of Science: 0

Resumo

Changes in animal population dynamics and community composition following species (re)introduction may have unanticipated consequences for a variety of downstream ecosystem processes, including infectious disease transmission. Due the lessons learned from ongoing projects, we present a novel approach on how to anticipate, monitor, and mitigate the vampire bats and rabies in rewilding projects. We pinpoint a series of precautions and the need for long-term monitoring of vampire bats and rabies responses to rewilding projects and highlighted the importance of multidisciplinary teams of scientist and managers focusing on prevention educational program of rabies risk transmitted by bats. In addition, monitoring the relative abundance of vampire bats, considering reproductive control by sterilization and oral vaccines that autonomously transfer among bats would reduce the probability, size and duration of rabies outbreaks. The rewilding assessment framework presented here responds to calls to better integrate the science and practice of rewilding and will help conservation practitioners and researchers to develop effective message framing strategies that minimize bats emerging infectious diseases and support biodiversity and its associated ecosystem services. (C) 2021 Associacao Brasileira de Ciencia Ecologica e Conservacao. Published by Elsevier Editora Ltda. (AU)

• Processo FAPESP: 19/00648-7 - Mudanças provocadas pelo processo de extinção em comunidades de mamíferos na Mata Atlântica
• Beneficiário: Fernando Henrique Martin Gonçalves
• Modalidade de apoio: Bolsas no Exterior - Estágio de Pesquisa - Pós-Doutorado
• Processo FAPESP: 17/24252-0 - Preditores antropogênicos de biodiversidade em resposta à fragmentação na Mata Atlântica.
• Beneficiário: Fernando Henrique Martin Gonçalves
• Modalidade de apoio: Bolsas no Brasil - Pós-Doutorado