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Climate change reduces Queensland's bat numbers

07-08-2007 · EurekAlert!

A central eastern Queensland mine has turned up bat fossils which show climate change has had a negative impact on the state's bat population.Queensland University of Technology PhD student Sandrine Martinez is currently sifting through what is the largest and best record of the state's southern most bat population from the late Pleistocene Epoch, beginning two million years ago and ending approximately 10,000 years ago.

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