Applying genomic approaches to identify historic population declines in European forest bats

Anthropogenically-driven environmental changes over the past two centuries have led to severe biodiversity loss, most prominently in the form of loss of populations and individuals. Better tools are needed to assess the magnitude of these wildlife population declines. Anecdotal evidence suggests European bat populations have suffered substantial declines in the past few centuries. However, there is little empirical evidence of these declines that can be used to put more recent population changes into historic context and set appropriate targets for species recovery. 
This study is a collaboration between academics and conservation practitioners to develop molecular approaches capable of providing quantitative evidence of historic population changes and their drivers that can inform the assessment of conservation status and conservation management. We generated a genomic dataset for the Western barbastelle, Barbastella barbastellus, a globally Near Threatened and regionally Vulnerable ba..., SNP datasets were generated from ddRADseq data for the western barbastelle bat, Barbastella barbastellus, from Britain, Spain and Portugal. SNPs called with Stacks and filtered in Plink to remove SNPs with >10% missing data. SNP datasets in vcf format., Most population genomics R packages can open vcf format files., # Applying genomic approaches to identify historic population declines in European forest bats

The Dryad submission includes SNP datasets generated from a ddRADseq genomic dataset for the western barbastelle bat, Barbastella barbastellus, from Britain, Spain and Portugal.

## Description of the Data and file structure

The Dryad submission includes 3 SNP files in vcf format generated from a ddRADseq genomic dataset for the western barbastelle bat, Barbastella barbastellus, from Britain, Spain and Portugal. SNPs were called with Stacks and filtered in Plink to remove SNPs with >5% missing data.

The following files are included in the submission:

1. SD1 - full neutral SNP dataset used in the manuscript. This dataset includes all individual bats (95 individuals) and 46,872 SNPs.
2. SD2 - smaller neutral SNP dataset used only in the demographic history analysis. This dataset only includes individuals from Spain and Britain (85 individuals) and SNPs with >99% coverage (25,844 SNPs)....