Eurobats Publication Series No7

...Common Names of European Bats

This publication is dedicated to the 25th Anniversary oft the Agreement on the Conservation of Populations of European Bats, which was opened for signature on the 4th of December 1991. The book contains common names for 53 species of bats occurring in the agreement area in 50 languages together with concise explanations of their origin and meaning.
The author Mr. Peter H.C. Lina, conceived this amazing dictionary more than five years ago in order to help local bat researches and conservationists with the popularization of their results and in order to standardize the application of vernacular names in alignment with their zoological ones. Given that Peter Lina was among the several experts who drafted the first version of the Agreement at a meeting in London on the 19th of November 1987, he can reasonably be called a founding father of EUROBATS. In 1998, he was elected as Chair of the newly established scientific working group and was presiding over the Advisory Committee of EUROBATS until 2015, when he voluntarily stepped down to give way for younger generations.

Peter Lina began his work for bat conservation in 1973, when he arrived at the former Dutch Ministry of Culture, Recreation and Social Work. He worked within the Dutch Government until 2002. From 2002, he has been an Honorary Research Associate at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center, the National Museum of Natural History in the Netherlands. Peter has taken part in many conferences abroad, including all European Bat Research Symposiums, one of which he organized in 1996. He has published around 150 scientific papers and communications, including those on bats, birds, viruses, immunology and many other topics.

G186-E Eurobats Publication Series No7:
- ISBN: 978-92-95058-36-1 (englisch)
- Herausgeber: Eurobats
- Autor: Peter H. C. Lina
- 104 Seiten
- 10 Fotos
- Paperback
- Format: ca. 16,5 cm x 24 cm