**Meet the editor**

Heimo Mikkola received his PhD degree in Applied Zoology and Limnology from the University of Kuopio, Finland. Since 1988, he has been an adjunct Professor of the Eastern Finland University through which he has lately been a part-time visiting professor in the Kazakh National Agrarian University in Almaty lecturing on fisheries and aquaculture to Master's level students and

on Green Biotechnology and Global Food Security to all university teachers. Before and in between his university career, he has worked abroad for well over 30 years in Africa, South America and Central and Southeast Asia mainly with the African Development Bank and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). During these years, he had an excellent free time opportunity to visit and study owls in over 130 countries of the world. Owl studies often took him to the best bat biotopes as well, and he started to collect data on bats eaten by owls. In 2014, he was given the title "Champion of Owls" in Houston, USA, mainly because of his six worldwide distributed and translated owl books.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Heimo Mikkola

**in Algeria 21** Mourad Ahmim

Vasil V. Popov

**Pakistan 81** Mohammad Salim

Nicholas Johnson

**Monitoring of Bats 7**

**Distribution Models 39**

**Temperate Forests 63**

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: Bats Eaten by Owls 1**

Chapter 2 **Comparison of Driving Transect Methods for Acoustic**

Chapter 4 **Bats in Bulgaria: Patterns of Species Distribution, Richness,**

Aaron S. Hogue and Andrew T. McGowan

Chapter 3 **The Bat: A Benefactor Animal Poorly Understood**

**Rarity, and Vulnerability Derived from**

Chapter 5 **Bat Conservation Management in Exploited European**

Laurent Tillon, Joseph Langridge and Stéphane Aulagnier

Chapter 6 **Bats in Northern Mountain Region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,**

Chapter 7 **The Daubenton's Bat (Myotis daubentonii, Kuhl, 1817) and Its**

Chapter 8 **Bats, Bat-Borne Viruses, and Environmental Changes 113**

**Role as a Reservoir for Europe Bat Lyssavirus Type-2 101**

Aneta Afelt, Christian Devaux, Jordi Serra-Cobo and Roger Frutos
