African Bat Database

Database of bat records for species located in Africa. It contains 17285 unique locality records of 266 species of bats. Metadata Family: family of bat record;Genus: genus of bat record;Species: species of bat record;Museum_number: the museum accession number of the bat record;Date: the date on which the bat was recorded;Year: the year in which the bat was recorded;Country: the country in which the bat was recorded;Location: the name of the location or locality that the bat was recorded;Latitude: the latitude in decimal degrees of the record;Longitude: the longitude in decimal degrees of the record;Reference: the source of the record;Holotype: whether the record is a type specimen;Checked: whether the bat specimen was examined by the authors.R scripts 1_african bats_maxent models_all_species.R provides code to run maxent models for each African bat species2_aoo-eoo.R script to calculate EOO (extent of occurrence) and AOO (area of occupancy) for African bats