We found 22 publications about the effect of logging
on bats in tropical forests, which were published in the
past three decades. Most studies were carried out in
the countries of Latin America (Brazil = 27%, Mexico = 9%,
Venezuela = 9%, Trinidad = 9%, Guatemala = 5%) and Southeast
Asia (Malaysia = 23%, Indonesia = 9%).We found only one study
for the tropical forests of Africa and one for the tropical forests
of Oceania (Table 1 and Fig. 1). In a temporal analysis considering
the pastthree decades there was an increase in the number
of publications. The period from 2005 to 2010 was the most productive (Fig. 2), whereas from 2002 to 2004 we did not find
publications on the topic (Table 1).