Bats Species Diversity of Northern Tajikistan: 45 Years Later

The paper shows the results of long-term field studies species composition and number bats in 8 abandoned mines Mogol-Tau mountains foothills northern slope Turkestan Mountain ranges territory Northern Tajikistan. It reveals that diversity have decreased both “winter” stationary mine “summer” ranges. At same time, Myotis blythii Tomes 1857 has remarkably increased summer. suggests these changes are not directly related to human activities, but deeper causes and, possibly, associated with global climate change.