Professor Paul Racey
Emeritus Professor
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Personal Details
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Research Interests
I retired from The University of Aberdeen in May 2009, and moved to Cornwall in September where I have a Visiting Professorship at the Centre for Ecology and Conservation at The University of Exeter in Cornwall's Tremough Campus near Falmouth. I have a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship which is enabling me to complete projects on bat ecology and conservation in Madagascar.
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Research Grants
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External Responsibilities
Fauna and Flora International
Vice Chairman of Council and member, Executive Committee
IUCN Species Survival Commission
Joint Chairman, Bat Specialist Group
The Mammals Trust, UK
Member of Grants Committee
Bat Conservation Trust
Vice President
Science and Conservation Advisor
The Lubee Bat Conservancy, Florida (Fruit bat biology and conservation)
Member of Scientific Advisory Board and Steering Committee
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Selected Publications
Haysom, K., Jones, G., Merrett, D. & Racey P.A. (in press) Bats, in The State of the UK's Wildlife. Ed. N. Maclean. CUP.
Yuan, L-Y, Chen, J., Lin, B., Racey, P.A. & Zhang, Z. (in press) Differential expression and functional constraint of PRL-2 in hibernating bats. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. B.
Yin, J.X., Wang, H.M., Duan, E.K., Racey, P.A. & Zhang, S.Y. (in press). Distribution and ultrastructure of Merkel cell and skin histology of the fishing bat. Myotis ricketti Acta Zoologica. Science in China.
Furey, N.M., Mackie, I J. & Racey, P.A. (in press) The role of ultrasonic detectors in improving inventory and monitoring surveys in Vietnamese karst bat assemblages. Current Zoology
Furey, N., Mackie, I.J. & Racey, P.A. (in press) Bat biodiversity in Vietnamese karst: the implication of forest degradation. Biodiversity and Conservation.
Singaravelan, N., Marimuthu, G. & Racey, P.A. (in press). Do all fruit bats deserve to be listed as vermin in the Indian Wildlife (Protection) & Amended Acts – a critical view. Oryx.
Byng, J., Racey, P.A. & Swaine, M.D.(in press) The ecological impacts of a migratory bat aggregation on its seasonal roost in Kasanka National Park, Zambia. African Journal of Ecology.
Randrianandrianina, F.H., Racey, P.A. & Jenkins, R.K.B. (in press) Hunting and consumption of mammals by people in urban areas of western Madagascar. Oryx
Racey, P.A., Goodman, S.M.& Jenkins, R.K.B. (2009). The ecology and conservation of Malagasy Bats.In T.H. Fleming & P.A. Racey. Island Bats – Ecology, Evolution and Conservation, Chicago University Press, Chicago.
Racey, P.A. (2009). Reproductive Assessment in Bats. In Behavioural and Ecological Methods for the Study of Bats. Eds. T.H. Kunz & S. Parsons. Johns Hopkins University Press.
Racey, P.A.(2009) Status, threats and conservation successes. Introduction to Special Issue on bats. Endangered Species Research 8:1-3.
Wang, Z.,Yuan, L-H., Zuo,Z-G., Racey, P.A. & Zhang, S-Y. (2009). Variations in the sequences of BMP2 imply different mechanisms for the evolution of morphological diversity in vertebrates.Comp. Biochem. Physiol. D4: 100-104 .
Liu, Y., Dong, D., Han, N-J, Zhao, H-B, Zhang, J-S, Li, G., Racey, P.A. & Zhang, S-Y .(2009) Molecular cloning and evolutionary analysis of haemoglobin chain genes in bats. Biochemical Genetics 47:256-265
Nicholls, B. & Racey, P. A. (2009) The aversive effect of electromagnetic radiation on foraging bats – a possible means of discouraging bats from approaching wind turbines. PLoS ONE 4:1-10 Issue 7 e6246
Racey, D.N. Peaker, M. & Racey, P.A. (2009) Galactorrhoea is not lactation. TREE 24:354-355.
Smith, P.G. & Racey, P.A. (2009) Selection of timber mortices in a church roof by Pipistrellus sp. at 52oN. Acta Chiropterologica. 11: 205-208.
Jones, G., Jacobs, D.S., Kunz, T.H., Willig, M.R. & Racey, P.A. (2009) Carpe noctem: the importance of bats as bioindicators. Endangered Species Research 8:93-115.
Mickleburgh, S., Waylen, K. & Racey, P.A. (2009). Bats as bushmeat – a global review. Oryx 43:217-234.
MacSwiney, G. C., Bolivar, B.C., Clarke, F.M. & Racey, P.A. (2009). Insectivorous bat activity at cenotes (water filled sink holes) in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. Acta Chiropterologica 11:139-148.
Bumrungsri, S., Spraoiaya, E., Chongsiri, I., Sridith, K., Racey, P.A. (2009). Does no bat mean no durian – the pollination ecology of semi-wild durian (Durio zibethinus L.) in Southern Thailand. J. Trop. Ecol. 25:85-92.
Hawkins, C.E. & Racey, P.A. (2009). A novel mating system in a solitary carnivore the fossa, Cryptoprocta ferox. J. Zool. Lond.: 277:196-204.
Wang,Z., Shi QX., Wang YL.,Wang YN., Racey,P.A. & Zhang SY (2009) Epididymal spem storage in Rickett's big-footed bat ( Myotis ricketti) . Acta Chiropterologica 10: 161-167.
Rakotoarivelo, A.A., Ralisata, M., Ramilijaona, O.R. Rakotomalala, M.R. Racey, P.A. & Jenkins, R.K.B. (2009). The food habits of a Malagasy giant: Hipposideros commersoni. Afr. J. Ecol. 47: 283-288.
Schipper, J. with 99 authors arranged alphabetically, including P.A.Racey (2008) The status of the world's land and marine mammals: diversity, threat and knowledge. Science 322: 225-230 .
Jenkins, R.K.B. & Racey, P.A. (2008). Bats and bushmeat in Madagascar. Madagascar Conservation and Development 3: 22-30.
Jenkins, R.K.B., Kofoky, A.F., Russ, J.M., Andriafidison, D., Siemers, B.M., Randrianadrianina, F., Mboahy, T. & Racey, P.A. (2008). pp 209-222. In J.U. Ganzhorn, S.M. Goodman & M. Vincelette. (Eds.) Ecology and Conservation of Bats in the Southern Anosy Region, Madagascar. Smithsonian Institution Press
Bumrungsri, S., Harbit, A., Benzie, C., Carmouche, K., Sridith, K. & Racey, P.A. (2008). The pollination ecology of two species of Parkia (Mimosaceae) in southern Thailand. J. Tropical Ecology. 24: 467-475.
Ngamprasertwong, T., Mackie, I.., Racey, P.A. & Piertney, S.B. (2008). Spatial distribution of microsatellite DNA variation in Daubenton's bat within Scotland. Molecular Ecology. 17: 3243-3258.
Smith, P. & Racey, P.A. (2008). Natterer's bats prefer foraging in broad leaved woodlands and river corridors. J. Zool. Lond. 275: 314-322.
MacSwiney Gonzalez, M.C.., Clarke, F. and Racey, P.A. (2008). What you see is not what you get: the role of ultrasonic detectors in maximising inventory completeness in neotropical forests. J. Appl. Ecol. 45: 1364-1371.
Piertney, S.B., Lambin, X., MacColl, A.D.C., Lock,, S., Bacon, P.J., Dallas, J.F., Leckie, F., Mougeot, F., Racey, P.A., Redpath, S. and Moss, R. (2008). Temporal changes in kin structure through a population cycle in territorial bird, the red grouse Lagopus lagopus scoticus. Molecular Ecology. 17: 2544-2551.
Hawkins, C.E. & Racey, P.A. (2008). The food habits of an endangered carnivore: the fossa Cryptoprocta ferox in the dry forests of Western Madagascar. Journal of Mammalogy. 89: 64-74.
Andriafidison, D., Kofoky, A., Mbohoahy, T., Racey, P.A.& Jenkins, R.K.B. (2008). Diet, reproduction and roosting habits of the Madagascan free tailed bat Otomops madagascariensis Dorst 1953. Chiroptera:Molossidae. Acta Chiropterologica. 9: 445-450.
Wang, Z., Liang, B., Racey, P.A., Zhang, S.Y., Wang, Y.L. (2008). Sperm storage, delayed ovulation and menstruation of the female Rickett's big-footed bat (Myotis ricketti). Zoological Studies. 47: 215-221
Rahaingodrahety, V.N., Andriafidison, A., Ratsimbazafy, J. Racey, P.A. and Jenkins, R.K.B. (2008) Three flying fox (Pteropus rufus) roosts, three conservation challenges in south-eastern Madagascar. Madagascar Conservation and Development 3:17- 21.
Racey, P.A. (Compiler) (2008). Bats order Chiroptera. Pp 293-391. In Mammals of the British Isles. Handbook 4th Edition. Ed. S. Harris & D.W. Yalden. The Mammal Society. Southampton. 799pp
Jones, G. & Racey, P.A. (2008). Genus Pipistrellus pp. 343-351. In Mammals of the British Isles. Handbook 4th Edition. Ed. S. Harris & D.W. Yalden. The Mammal Society. Southampton. 799pp
Russ, J.M., Jones, G., Racey, P.A. & Hutson, A.M. (2008). Nathusius pipistrelle Pipistrellus nathusii. Pp. 351-355. In Mammals of the British Isles. Handbook 4th Edition. Ed. S. Harris & D.W. Yalden. The Mammal Society. Southampton. 799pp
Racey, P.A. Mackie, I.J. & Hutson, A.M. (2008). Parti-coloured bat Vespertilio murinus. Pp. 361-362. In Mammals of the British Isles. Handbook 4th Edition. Ed. S. Harris & D.W. Yalden. The Mammal Society. Southampton. 799pp
I.J. Mackie & Racey, P.A. (2008). Noctule Nyctalus noctula pp. 338-342. In Mammals of the British Isles. Handbook 4th Edition. Ed. S. Harris & D.W. Yalden. The Mammal Society. Southampton. 799pp
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