Personal identification

Full name

Orly Razgour

Citation names

• Razgour, Orly

Author identifiers

Ciência ID

A81F-106A-C242

ORCID iD

0000-0003-3186-0313

Knowledge fields

• Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Ecology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian	Advanced (C1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)
Arab	Beginner (A1)			Beginner (A1)

	Degree	Classification
2009/01/10 - 2013/01/10 Concluded	PhD Biological Sciences (Doctor of Philosophy) University of Bristol Faculty of Science, United Kingdom "From genes to landscapes: conservation biology of the grey long-eared bat, Plecotus austriacus, across spatio-temporal scales." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	with commendation
2006/11/01 - 2008/11/01 Concluded	MSc in Desert Ecology (Master) Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Sede Boqer Campus, Israel "The effect of microhabitat characteristics and interspecific interactions on bat community patterns over natural water bodies in desert environments " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Cum Laude
2003/09 - 2006/07 Concluded	BSc Biodiversity Conservation and Management (Bachelor) University of Kent, United Kingdom "Identifying areas for conservation using keystone species: Bat diversity and abundance in the Lago Preto Conservation Concession, Peru" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	First class honours

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2019/12/01 - Current	Principal Investigator (Research)	University of Exeter, United Kingdom
2016/05/01 - 2019/11/30	Principal Investigator (Research)	University of Southampton, United Kingdom
2015/07/01 - 2016/04/30	Principal Investigator (Research)	University of Bristol Faculty of Science, United Kingdom
2013/01/07 - 2015/06/30	Principal Investigator (Research)	University of Stirling, United Kingdom

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2023/01/01 - 2025/12/31	Understanding population level effects of artificial lighting on biodiversity - a novel interdisciplinary approach using bats as models NE/W005778/1 Co-Investigator University of Exeter College of Life and Environmental Sciences, United Kingdom	Natural Environment Research Council Ongoing
2023/11/01 - 2025/03/31	Connecting People and Landscapes in a changing climate NL-23-00020 Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) University of Exeter, United Kingdom The Bat Conservation Trust, United Kingdom	National Lottery Heritage Fund Ongoing
2020/09/30 - 2024/09/30	Valuing ecosystem services provided by UK bats under climate change GW4+ DTP Principal Investigator University of Exeter College of Life and Environmental Sciences, United Kingdom	Natural Environment Research Council Ongoing
2019/10/01 - 2023/03/31	Investigating the effects of environmental change on tropical montane bats INSPIRE PhD Studentship Supervisor	Natural Environment Research Council Ongoing
2019/02/01 - 2023/02/01	Climate change and bats: from science to conservation (CLIMBATS) ca18107 Invited Scientist Fellow	European Research Council Ongoing
2018 - 2022	ConBiomics: the missing approach for the Conservation of freshwater Bivalves 02/SAICT/2017/030286 Invited Scientist Fellow	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2018 - 2022	BatPine - Promoting the resilience of ecosystem services to climate change: a case study with pine plantations, pine processionary moth and bats AAC/02/SAICT/2017/31731 Invited Scientist Fellow	Ongoing
2017/10/01 - 2021/03/31	How will greening the desert affect bats and the ecosystem services they provide? SPITFIRE PhD studentships Principal investigator	Natural Environment Research Council Ongoing
2019/12/01 - 2020/11/30	Identifying the genomic basis of adaptations to arid environments in bats NBAF1160 Principal investigator	Natural Environment Research Council Ongoing
2015/05/01 - 2020/11	Developing an integrated framework for investigating biodiversity responses to global environmental change info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/RCUK/NERC/NE2%FM0186602%F2/GB Principal investigator	UK Research and Innovation Ongoing
2017 - 2019	Mobilising Bat Occurrence Data in Zambia BID-AF2017-0301-NAC Invited Scientist Fellow	Concluded
2014/08/01 - 2016/07/31	Up in the air: researching ecological connectivity in sky island bats of the Ethiopian Highlands 4849 / 5889 Principal investigator	Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2013/07/01 - 2015/06/30	Fight or flight: The spatial genomics of bat species response to climate change Impact Fellowship Research Fellow University of Stirling, United Kingdom	University of Stirling Concluded

Publications

Book chapter	Orly Razgour; Carlos Ibáñez; Sébastien J. Puechmaille; Javier Juste. "Myotis nattereri Species Complex (M. nattereri, M. crypticus, and M. escalerai)". 2023. 10.1007/978-3-030-44029-9_57
Journal article	Augusto, A.M.; Raposeira, H.; Horta, P.; Mata, V.A.; Aizpurua, O.; Alberdi, A.; Jones, G.; et al. "Bat diversity boosts ecosystem services: Evidence from pine processionary moth predation". Science of The Total Environment 912 (2024): 169387. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.169387. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.169387 Orly Razgour; Cecilia Montauban; Francesca Festa; Daniel Whitby; Javier Juste; Carlos Ibáñez; Hugo Rebelo; et al. "Applying genomic approaches to identify historic population declines in European forest bats". Journal of Applied Ecology (2024): https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14540. 10.1111/1365-2664.14540 Iqbal Singh Bhalla; Orly Razgour; François Rigal; Robert J. Whittaker. "Landscape features drive insectivorous bat activity in Indian rice fields". Landscape Ecology (2023): https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-023-01758-z. 10.1007/s10980-023-01758-z Iqbal Singh Bhalla; Orly Razgour; François Rigal; Robert J. Whittaker. "Insectivorous bats in Indian rice fields respond to moonlight, temperature, and insect activity". Landscape Ecology (2023): https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-023-01764-1. 10.1007/s10980-023-01764-1 Froidevaux, Jérémy S. P.; Toshkova, Nia; Barbaro, Luc; Benítez-López, Ana; Kerbiriou, Christian; Le Viol, Isabelle; Pacifici, Michela; et al. "A species-level trait dataset of bats in Europe and beyond". Scientific Data 10 1 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02157-4. 10.1038/s41597-023-02157-4 Mata-Guel, Erik O.; Soh, Malcolm C. K.; Butler, Connor W.; Morris, Rebecca J.; Razgour, Orly; Peh, Kelvin S.-H.. "Impacts of anthropogenic climate change on tropical montane forests: an appraisal of the evidence". Biological Reviews 98 4 (2023): 1200-1224. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/brv.12950. 10.1111/brv.12950 Roberto Novella-Fernandez; Javier Juste; Carlos Ibañez; Jesús Nogueras; Patrick E. Osborne; Orly Razgour. "The role of forest structure and composition in driving the distribution of bats in Mediterranean regions". Scientific Reports (2022): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-07229-w. 10.1038/s41598-022-07229-w Jessica Schäckermann; Evie J. Morris; Antton Alberdi; Orly Razgour; Carmi Korine. "The Contribution of Desert-Dwelling Bats to Pest Control in Hyper-Arid Date Agriculture". Diversity (2022): https://doi.org/10.3390/d14121034. 10.3390/d14121034 Céline Bellard; Ana Benítez-López; Orly Razgour; Luca Santini; Aibin Zhan. "Recent developments in Diversity and Distributions and trends in the field". Diversity and Distributions (2022): https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13625. 10.1111/ddi.13625 Festa F; Ancillotto L; Santini L; Pacifici M; Rocha R; Toshkova N; Amorim F; et al. "Bat responses to climate change: a systematic review.". Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (2022): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/36054527. 10.1111/brv.12893 Horta P; Raposeira H; Baños A; Ibáñez C; Razgour O; Rebelo H; Juste J. "Counteracting forces of introgressive hybridization and interspecific competition shape the morphological traits of cryptic Iberian Eptesicus bats.". Scientific reports (2022): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/35803997. 10.1038/s41598-022-15412-2 Hoban S; Archer FI; Bertola LD; Bragg JG; Breed MF; Bruford MW; Coleman MA; et al. "Global genetic diversity status and trends: towards a suite of Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) for genetic composition.". Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (2022): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/35415952. 10.1111/brv.12852 "The role of the gut microbiota in the dietary niche expansion of fishing bats". Animal Microbiome 3 1 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s42523-021-00137-w. 10.1186/s42523-021-00137-w Riley, J.; Zeale, M.R.K.; Razgour, O.; Turpin, J.; Jones, G.. "Predicting the past, present and future distributions of an endangered marsupial in a semi-arid environment". Animal Conservation (2021): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85105185899&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1111/acv.12696 Novella-Fernandez, R.; Juste, J.; Ibáñez, C.; Rebelo, H.; Russo, D.; Alberdi, A.; Kiefer, A.; et al. "Broad-scale patterns of geographic avoidance between species emerge in the absence of fine-scale mechanisms of coexistence". Diversity and Distributions 27 9 (2021): 1606-1618. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85111652422&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1111/ddi.13375 Rocha, R.; Aziz, S.A.; Brook, C.E.; Carvalho, W.D.; Cooper-Bohannon, R.; Frick, W.F.; Huang, J.C.C.; et al. "Bat conservation and zoonotic disease risk: a research agenda to prevent misguided persecution in the aftermath of COVID-19". Animal Conservation 24 3 (2021): 303-307. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85089986161&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1111/acv.12636 Roberto Novella-Fernandez; Carlos Ibañez; Javier Juste; Elizabeth L. Clare; C. Patrick Doncaster; Orly Razgour. "Trophic resource partitioning drives fine-scale coexistence in cryptic bat species". Ecology and Evolution 10 24 (2020): 14122-14136. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7004. 10.1002/ece3.7004 Orly Razgour; Mohammed Kasso; Helena Santos; Javier Juste. "Up in the air: Threats to Afromontane biodiversity from climate change and habitat loss revealed by genetic monitoring of the Ethiopian Highlands bat". Evolutionary Applications (2020): https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.13161. 10.1111/eva.13161 Antton Alberdi; Orly Razgour; Ostaizka Aizpurua; Roberto Novella-Fernandez; Joxerra Aihartza; Ivana Budinski; Inazio Garin; et al. "DNA metabarcoding and spatial modelling link diet diversification with distribution homogeneity in European bats". Nature Communications 11 1 (2020): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14961-2. 10.1038/s41467-020-14961-2 Bárbara Moraes; Orly Razgour; João Pedro Souza-Alves; Jean P. Boubli; Bruna Bezerra. "Habitat suitability for primate conservation in north-east Brazil". Oryx (2020): 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605319001388. 10.1017/S0030605319001388 Rebekah J. White; Orly Razgour. "Emerging zoonotic diseases originating in mammals: a systematic review of effects of anthropogenic land-use change". Mammal Review 50 4 (2020): 336-352. https://doi.org/10.1111/mam.12201. 10.1111/mam.12201 Orly Razgour; Brenna Forester; John B. Taggart; Michaël Bekaert; Javier Juste; Carlos Ibáñez; Sébastien J. Puechmaille; et al. "Considering adaptive genetic variation in climate change vulnerability assessment reduces species range loss projections". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 21 (2019): 10418-10423. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1820663116. 10.1073/pnas.1820663116 Centeno-Cuadros, A.; Razgour, O.; García-Mudarra, J.L.; Mingo-Casas, P.; Sandonís, V.; Redondo, A.; Ibáñez, C.; et al. "Comparative phylogeography and asymmetric hybridization between cryptic bat species". Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research (2019): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85070101399&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1111/jzs.12318 Amorim, F.; Razgour, O.; Mata, V.A.; Lopes, S.; Godinho, R.; Ibáñez, C.; Juste, J.; et al. "Evolutionary history of the European free-tailed bat, a tropical affinity species spanning across the Mediterranean Basin". Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research (2019): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85075420663&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1111/jzs.12326 Orly Razgour; Mike Persey; Uzi Shamir; Carmi Korine; Alexandra Syphard. "The role of climate, water and biotic interactions in shaping biodiversity patterns in arid environments across spatial scales". Diversity and Distributions (2018): https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fddi.12773. 10.1111/ddi.12773 Vasconcelos, R.; Razgour, O.; Tarroso, P.; Fasola, M.; Carranza, S.; Alves, P.C.. "Combining molecular and landscape tools for targeting evolutionary processes in reserve design: An approach for islands". PLoS ONE 13 7 (2018): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85050469942&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1371/journal.pone.0200830 Orly Razgour; John B. Taggart; Stephanie Manel; Javier Juste; Carlos Ibáñez; Hugo Rebelo; Antton Alberdi; Gareth Jones; Kirsty Park. "An integrated framework to identify wildlife populations under threat from climate change". Molecular Ecology Resources 18 1 (2017): 18-31. https://doi.org/10.1111%2F1755-0998.12694. 10.1111/1755-0998.12694 Razgour, O.; Rebelo, H.; Di Febbraro, M.; Russo, D.. "Painting maps with bats: Species distribution modelling in bat research and conservation". Hystrix 27 1 (2016): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84988884606&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.4404/hystrix-27.1-11753 Jones, M.; Bertola, L.D.; Razgour, O.. "Predicting the effect of interspecific competition on habitat suitability for the endangered african wild dog under future climate and land cover changes". Hystrix 27 1 (2016): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84988838467&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.4404/hystrix-27.1-11678 Alberdi, A.; Gilbert, M.T.P.; Razgour, O.; Aizpurua, O.; Aihartza, J.; Garin, I.. "Contrasting population-level responses to Pleistocene climatic oscillations in an alpine bat revealed by complete mitochondrial genomes and evolutionary history inference". Journal of Biogeography 42 9 (2015): 1689-1700. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84938631016&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1111/jbi.12535 Razgour, O.. "Beyond species distribution modeling: A landscape genetics approach to investigating range shifts under future climate change". Ecological Informatics 30 (2015): 250-256. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84948711531&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2015.05.007 Razgour, O.; Salicini, I.; Ibáñez, C.; Randi, E.; Juste, J.. "Unravelling the evolutionary history and future prospects of endemic species restricted to former glacial refugia". Molecular Ecology 24 20 (2015): 5267-5283. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84945206236&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1111/mec.13379 Orly Razgour; Hugo Rebelo; Sébastien J. Puechmaille; Javier Juste; Carlos Ibáñez; Andreas Kiefer; Terry Burke; et al. "Scale-dependent effects of landscape variables on gene flow and population structure in bats". Diversity Distrib. 20 10 (2014): 1173-1185. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12200. 10.1111/ddi.12200 Hope, Paul R.; Bohmann, Kristine; Gilbert, M. Thomas P.; Zepeda-Mendoza, Marie Lisandra; Razgour, Orly; Jones, Gareth. "Second generation sequencing and morphological faecal analysis reveal unexpected foraging behaviour by Myotis nattereri (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) in winter". Frontiers in Zoology 11 (2014): 10.1186/1742-9994-11-39 Razgour, Orly; Juste, Javier; Ibanez, Carlos; Kiefer, Andreas; Rebelo, Hugo; Puechmaille, Sebastien J.; Arlettaz, Raphael; et al. "The shaping of genetic variation in edge-of-range populations under past and future climate change". Ecology Letters 16 10 (2013): 1258-1266. 10.1111/ele.12158 Razgour, Orly; Korine, Carmi; Saltz, David. "Does interspecific competition drive patterns of habitat use in desert bat communities?". Oecologia 167 2 (2011): 493-502. 10.1007/s00442-011-1995-z Razgour, Orly; Hanmer, Julia; Jones, Gareth. "Using multi-scale modelling to predict habitat suitability for species of conservation concern: The grey long-eared bat as a case study". Biological Conservation 144 12 (2011): 2922-2930. 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.08.010 Razgour, Orly; Clare, Elizabeth L.; Zeale, Matt R. K.; Hanmer, Julia; Schnell, Ida Baerholm; Rasmussen, Morten; Gilbert, Thomas P.; Jones, Gareth. "High-throughput sequencing offers insight into mechanisms of resource partitioning in cryptic bat species". Ecology and Evolution 1 4 (2011): 10.1002/ece3.49 Razgour, O; Korine, C; Saltz, D. "Pond characteristics as determinants of species diversity and community composition in desert bats". Animal Conservation 13 5 (2010): 505-513. 10.1111/j.1469-1795.2010.00371.x
Preprint	Christopher D. Barratt; Renske E. Onstein; Malin L. Pinsky; Sebastian Steinfartz; Hjalmar S. Kühl; Brenna R. Forester; Orly Razgour. "Life on the edge: a new toolbox for population-level climate change vulnerability assessments". 2023. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.23.543988. 10.1101/2023.06.23.543988

Other

Other output

Diet diversification shapes broad-scale distribution patterns in European bats. 2019. Alberdi, A.; Razgour, O.; Aizpurua, O.; Novella-Fernandez, R.; Aihartza, J.; Budinski, I.; Garin, I.; et al. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85095640691&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1101/704759

Award

2014	John Marsden Medal for best UK doctoral thesis in Biology The Linnean Society, United Kingdom
2013	Faculty of Science Commendation for outstanding PhD thesis University of Bristol Faculty of Science, United Kingdom
2012	Vincent Weir Scientific Award for contribution to bat conservation research The Bat Conservation Trust, United Kingdom
2008	Merav Ziv Award for MSc research project Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Sede Boqer Campus, Israel
2007	Frederick Siegmund Prize for excellence in desert studies Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
2006	Rotary Prize for outstanding academic achievements University of Kent, United Kingdom