PUBLICATIONS

Gomeh-Djame A., Bates P.J.J., Juste J., Suarez-Rubio M., Torrent L., García-Mudarra J.L., Agodigo Ayangma E., Yettore F., Bilong Bilong C.F., Bakwo-Fils E.-M. 2026. An integrated taxonomic and conservation assessment of Glauconycteris (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) in Cameroon, with the description of two new species from the Northwestern Congolian Lowland Forest. ZooKeys, 1282: 161-204. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1282.183038

Torrent, L., Garin, I., Aihartza, J., Alene, E. A. N., Monadjem, A., Juste, J. 2025. A systematic revision of Equatorial Guinea’s bats confirms a biodiversity hotspot in Central Africa. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 146(4), blaf120. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blaf120  

Montauban, C., Budinski, I., Webala, P. W., Laverty, T. M., Tanshi, I., Torrent, L., Bakwo-Fils, E., Taylor, P. J., Kane, A., Monadjem, A. 2025. Underrepresentation of bats in Africa’s protected areas. Conservation Biology, e70108. DOI: 10.1111/cobi.70108

Torrent, L., Juste, J., Garin, I., Aihartza, J., Dalton, D. L., Mamba, M., Tanshi, I., Powell, L. L., Padidar, S., Garcia-Mudarra, J. L., Richards, L., Monadjem, A. 2025. Taxonomic revision of African pipistrelle-like bats with a new species from the West Congolean rainforest. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 204(2), zlaf020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf020 

López-Bosch, D., Fernández-Llamazares, Á., Torrent, L., López-Baucells, À. 2025. How do social media posts enhance public interest in a citizen science project? Insights from the Bat Monitoring Programme. European Journal of Wildlife Research, 71, 65. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/ 

Torrent, L., Garin, I., Aihartza, J., Méndez‐Rodríguez, A., Alene, E. A. N., Juste, J. 2025. Genetic and Morphological Evidence From a Group of Rare African Free-Tailed Bats Reveals a New Subgenus Within Mops. Ecology and Evolution, 15(5), e71288. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.71288

Darras, K. F., Rountree, R. A., Van Wilgenburg, S. L., Cord, A. F., Pitz, F., Chen, Y., … Mammides, C. 2025. Worldwide Soundscapes: a synthesis of passive acoustic monitoring across realms. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 34(5), e70021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.70021

Patterson, B. D., Demos, T. C., Torrent, L., Grunwald, A. L., Montauban, C., Kerbis Peterhans, J. C., McDonough, M. M., Dick, C. W., Bartonjo, M., Schoeman, M. C., Ruedas, L. A., Juste, J. 2024. Systematics of the Rhinolophus landeri complex, with evidence for 3 additional Afrotropical bat species. Journal of Mammalogy. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyae085

Monadjem, A., Montauban, C., Webala, P. W., Laverty, T. M., Bakwo-Fils, E. M., Torrent, L., Tanshi, I., Kane, A., Rutrough, A. L., Waldien, D. L., Taylor, P. J. 2024. African bat database: curated data of occurrences, distributions and conservation metrics for sub-Saharan bats. Scientific Data, 11(1), 1309. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-04170-7

Guixé, G., Sazatornil, V., J. Feldman, M., Torrent, L., Roca, E., Camprodon, J. 2024. Artificial tunnels of hydroelectric power plants as valuable habitat for European bats. European Journal of Wildlife Research. DOI: 10.1007/s10344-024-01828-w

Leonard, A., Abalos, J., Adhola, T., Aguirre, W., Aizpurua, O., Ali, S., Andreone, F., Aubret, F., Ávila-Palma, H. D., Alcantara,
L. F. B. and others. 2024. A global initiative for ecological and evolutionary hologenomics.  Trends in Ecology & Evolution. DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2024.03.005

Lobato-Bailón, L., López-Baucells, A., Guixé, D., Flaquer, C., Camprodon, J., Florensa-Rius, X., Mas, M., Torrent, L., Ordeix, L., Tallo-Parra, L., P. Ribas, M., Marco, I., Carvajal, A., López-Bejar, M., Napp, S., Pailler-García, L., Espunyes, J., Cabezón, O. 2023. Reappraising the use of forearm rings for bat species. Biological Conservation. DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110268

Juste, J., Torrent, L., Howard, K., Méndez-Rodríguez, A., Garcia-Mudarra, J.L., Nogueras, J., & Ibáñez, C. 2023. A new Pipistrelle bat from the oceanic Island of Príncipe (Western Central Africa). Journal of Mammalogy.

DeGroot, T.L., Wolfe, J.D., Powell, L.L., Esono, F., Ebana, A., Barrientos, C., Torrent, L., Brzeski, K. E. 2023. Human impacts on mammal communities in Rio Campo Nature Reserve, Equatorial Guinea. African Journal of Ecology.

López-Baucells, A., Blanch-Ojea, E., Mas Navarro, M., Ortega-Castaño, A., Torrent, L., Tuneu-Corral, C., López-Bosch, D. 2022. BOOK REVIEW: Bat Roosts in Rock – A Guide to Identification and Assessment for Climbers, Cavers & Ecology Professionals – Henry Andrews(2021). Pelagic Publishing. Journal of Bat Research & Conservation.

Torrent, L., Apoznański, G., Kokurewicz, T., Mitrus, C., De Maegdt, M., & Juste, J. 2022. First record of polydactyly for a European bat, Myotis daubentonii (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae). Mammalia.

Torrent, L. Spring 2022. Bat Conservation Trust – Bat News Magazine, issue 127. International Conservation: Understanding Equatorial Guinea’s bat diversity. ISSN 0269 8501

Rocha, R., Fernández-Llamazares, Á., López-Baucells, A., Andriamitandrina, S. F. M., Andriatafika, Z. E., Temba, E. M., Torrent, L., Burgas, D., & Cabeza, M. 2021. Human-Bat Interactions in Rural Southwestern Madagascar through a Biocultural Lens. Journal of Ethnobiology. DOI: 10.2993/0278-0771-41.1.53

Ferreira, D. F., Torrent, L., Welch, A. J., Wolfe, J. D., Brzeski, K., Powell, L. 2020. First record of a piebald Bates’s Slit-faced Bat, Nycteris arge (Chiroptera: Nycteridae) from Equatorial Guinea, Central Africa. Barbastella. DOI: 10.14709/barbj.13.1.2020.14

Alvarez-Cros, C., Bas Lay, J.M., Ramot García, J., Matesanz, R. & Torrent, L. 2019. Sterna, la revista número 010. Juny – setembre/2019.

Kokurewicz, T., G. Apoznański, R. Gyselings, L. Kirkpatrick, L. De Bruyn, J. Haddow, A. Glover, H. Schofield, C. Schmidt, F. Bongers, L. Torrent & A. Rachwald. 2019. 45 years of bat study and conservation in Nietoperek bat reserve (Western Poland). Nyctalus (N.F.), 19(3): 252-269.

Fuentes, M. A., Torrent, L., Barrera, S., & Boix, D. 2019. Rapid invasion of the American blue crab Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896 in the North-East of the Iberian Peninsula. BioInvasions Records, 8(1), 113-118.

López-Baucells, A., Torrent, L., Rocha, R., Bobrowiec, P., Palmeirim, J. M., & Meyer, C. 2018. Stronger together: Combining the time-efficiency of automated classifiers with the accuracy of manual validation optimizes reliability of species identification in bat acoustic surveys. Ecological Informatics 49. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2018.11.004

Torrent, L., A., López-Baucells, A., Rocha, R., Bobrowiec, P.E.D, & Meyer, C. F. J. 2018. The importance of lakes for bat conservation in Neotropical rainforests: an assessment using autonomous recorders. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. 4 (4), pp. 339-351. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.83

Fernández-Llamazares, A., López-Baucells, A., Rocha, R., Andriamitandrina, S. F. M., Andriatafika, Z. E., Burgas. D., Temba, E. M., Torrent, L., & Cabeza, M. 2018. Are sacred caves still safe havens for the endemic bats of Madagascar? Oryx 52(2): 271-275

Baláž, V., Solský, M., Havlíková, B., Torrent, L., González Sevilleja, C., Gallego Zamorano, J., Lastra Gonzales, D., & Vojar, J. 2018. The first survey of pathogenic fungus Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans in wild and captive amphibians in the Czech Republic. Salamandra 54: 87-91.

López-Baucells, A., Torrent, L., Rocha, R., Pavan, A. C., Bobrowiec, P.E.D, & Meyer, C. F. J. 2017. Does it sound familiar? Geographical variation on high-duty cycle echolocation on the cryptic common mustached bats Pteronotus cf. rubiginosus (Mormoopidae). Bioacoustics Journal 27(4): 341-357.