Field Guide to Amazonian Bats
Ricardo Rocha BSc in Biology by the University of Lisbon and MSc in Conservation Science by Imperial College London with thesis dedicated to São TomÊ endemic birds’ response to agricultural intensification. Following his MSc, he worked on the ecology of seabirds and endemic reptiles of the Selvagens archipelago (Portugal) and then moved to the Metapopulation Research Centre (Finland) to investigate the efficiency of Malagasy protected areas in reducing deforestation. He has since worked with bird and bat ecology in Madagascar, Kenya and Brazil. His PhD, based at the Universities of Lisbon and Helsinki and supervised by Christoph Meyer, Jorge Palmeirim and Mar Cabeza, addresses the effects tropical forest fragmentation on the spatio-temporal dynamics of phyllostomid bat communities. He has recently moved to the University of Madeira where he lectures biosystematics and zoology.
Oriol Massana Valeriano Oriol studied Biological Sciences at the University of Barcelona but then started working as an illustrator of educational, scientific, and cultural books and magazines. In 2010 he began to focus on 3D design and animation, which led to a career in nature documentaries. Another facet of his professional work focuses on photography, an interest that has been increasing since 2004. He has contributed to a number of publications and has received a number of awards. Since 2011 he has worked with the Bat Research Group at the Granollers Museum of Natural Sciences (Catalonia) as a photographer, while developing a popular exposition on Catalan bats. During 2014 he spent three months in the Amazon rainforest as a volunteer on the bat research projects led by the other authors of this guide.
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