Metadata for: DarkCideS 1.0, a global database for bats in karsts and caves

This database contains 4 major datasets

1. The first dataset contains taxonomic checklists for all extant cave-dwelling
bats species extracted from the expert-based International Union for the
Conservation Union (IUCN) Red List database version 2020.1. It also contains
the 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.
2. The second dataset contains the bat cave
geographical location (latitude/longitude) and recorded species.
3. The third dataset included in the database
contains the measured land-use and landscape features of the cave surroundings
using the georeferenced data from the second dataset. Reference for individual entries in Dataset 3 are included in Dataset 2.
4. The fourth dataset lists the parasitic bat
flies and their Laboulbeniales fungal hyperparasites associated with cave bats.