Table 1 DarkCideS 1.0 includes key traits for all living cave-dwelling bat species (N = 679). General metadata for traits included in the current version of the database: habitat preference, ecological status, feeding groups, geographical range, island endemism, geopolitical endemism, distribution range, biogeographical breadth, generation length, body mass, and threatening process.
From: DarkCideS 1.0, a global database for bats in karsts and caves
Trait category | Trait (Data name) | Variable type | Data filters | N species | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Habitat preference | Forest | Binomial | Yes = 1, No = 0 | 586 | IUCN Red List database |
Savanna | 140 | ||||
Desert | 45 | ||||
Urban | 16 | ||||
Underground | 523 | ||||
Wetlands | 56 | ||||
Ecological status and distribution | Population.status | Nominal | Decreasing | 150 | |
Stable | 161 | ||||
Increasing | 6 | ||||
Unknown | 362 | ||||
Conservation.status | Data.Deficient | 83 | |||
Least.Concern | 452 | ||||
Near.Threatened | 54 | ||||
Vulnerable | 54 | ||||
Endangered | 25 | ||||
Critically.Endangered | 11 | ||||
Geopolitical.endemism | Non.Endemic | 459 | |||
Endemic | 220 | ||||
Island.endemism | Island.Endemic | 159 | Phylacine 1.2 | ||
Mainland | 520 | ||||
Biogeographic.breadth | Afrotropical | 102 | |||
Indomalayan | 184 | ||||
Austral-Oceania | 49 | ||||
Neotropical | 173 | ||||
Palearactic | 85 | ||||
Neactic | 18 | ||||
Cosmopolitan | 68 | ||||
Feeding groups | Feeding.groups | Carnivore | 553 | EltonTraits 1.0 | |
Frugi-nectarivore | 60 | ||||
Omnivore | 66 | ||||
Geographical range | Island.endemism | Nominal | Islandic | 160 | Phylacine 1.2 |
Non-islandic | 521 | ||||
Current.range | Continuous | N/A | 679 | Phylacine 1.2 | |
Natural.range | Continuous | N/A | 679 | ||
Biological traits | Generation.length | Continuous | N/A | 679 | Pacifi et al. (2013) |
Body.mass (grams) | Continuous | N/A | 679 | Phylacine 1.2 | |
Direct threats | Mining.quarrying | Binomial | Yes = 1, No = 0 | 155 | IUCN Red List database |
Sacred.activities | 11 | ||||
Tourism.caving | 226 | ||||
Guano.extraction | 69 | ||||
Vandalism | 106 | ||||
Nest.harvesting | 5 | ||||
Hunting.bushmeat | 109 | ||||
Intensional.killings | 48 | ||||
Gating | 7 | ||||
Scientific.research | 7 | ||||
Indirect threats | Agricultural.conversion | 155 | |||
Urbanisation | 76 | ||||
Deforestation | 284 | ||||
Pollution | 65 | ||||
Road.kills | 12 | ||||
Natural threats | Disease.parasites | 5 | |||
Invasive.species | 21 | ||||
Fires | 36 | ||||
Drought | 9 | ||||
Extreme.cold | 1 | ||||
Storm | 17 |
