Disease ecology of bats—the Canadian scene

Bats are hosts to a range of pathogens, which include zoonotic pathogens and conservation concern. Brock Fenton’s research on bat ecology has always balanced clear communication potential health risks associated with bats the need communicate these precisely avoid unnecessary persecution bats. Here, we integrate Brock’s work in field disease that his students collaborators consider advantages studying within Canadian context. The broad distribution few common species across vast landscape present-day Canada provides an opportunity untangle impacts environmental variation host–pathogen interactions severity, particularly context climate change. varying migratory strategies social structure found could also facilitate informative interspecific studies better understand how is affected by among rapid changes, physiological traits, behaviour different species. We propose series priority questions approaches further our understanding Canada, inspired Brock, colleagues, students.