Fig. 1
From: A species-level trait dataset of bats in Europe and beyond
Number of peer-reviewed studies per year (a) and per geographic area (b) that implemented a trait-based approach to study bats15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,90,91. Data were extracted from a systematic literature search conducted in Web of Science and Google Scholar on the 15th of November 2021 using the following search string terms: (Bat* OR Chiroptera) AND (“trait-base*” OR “trait diversity” OR “functional diversity” OR trait*). The black solid line represents the LOESS (locally weighted scatterplot smoothing) fit to the observed relationship. See raw data and details in Supplementary Material 1.
