Iroro Tanshi, PhD

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Through supporting research infrastructure, networking and capacity strengthening, I’m deeply committed to advancing science in understudied areas such as West Africa.

I engage local people to protect the Endangered Short-tailed Roundleaf bat in Nigeria, Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea; recognized by prestigious international awards, notably Pritzker, Whitley, and Future for Nature awards

Plowright R. et al… I. Tanshi… (2024). Ecological Countermeasures to Prevent Pathogen Spillover and subsequent pandemics. Nature Communications 15, 2577 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-46151-9

Clements et al., … I. Tanshi… (2024). The bii4africa dataset of faunal and floral population intactness

estimates across Africa’s major land uses. Scientific Data, 11:191 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02832-6.

Tanshi, I., Obitte, B. C., Monadjem, A., Rossiter, S. J., Fisher-Phelps, M., & Kingston, T. (2022). Multiple dimensions of biodiversity in paleotropical hotspots reveal comparable bat diversity. Biotropica, 00, 1– 12. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.13143

Hurme, E., Fahr, J., Eidolon Monitoring Network, Eric, B. F., Hash, C. T., O’Mara, M. T., Tanshi, I., ... & Dechmann, D. K. (2022). Fruit bat migration matches green wave in seasonal landscapes. Functional Ecology.

Tanshi, I., Obitte, B. C., Monadjem, A., & Kingston, T. (2021). Hidden Afrotropical bat diversity in Nigeria: ten new country

records from a biodiversity hotspot. Acta Chiropterologica, 23(2), 313-343.

Tanshi, I., A. E. Ogbeibu, and P. J. J. Bates. (2019). Complementary bat (Mammalia: Chiroptera) survey techniques uncover two new country records for Nigeria. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 11: 14788–14801.

Frick, W., ..., I. Tanshi, ... (2023). Creating a culture of evidence use, pp 333-363, in Transforming Conservation. A Practical Guide to Evidence and Decision Making. Open Book Publishers, Cambridge, UK. https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0321.11

Tanshi, I., and T. Kingston. (2021). Introduction and implementation of harp traps signal a new era in bat research. Pp. 255–270, in 50 Years of Bat Research, Foundations and New Frontiers (B. K. Lim, M. B. Fenton, R. M. Brigham, et. al., eds.). Springer, Cham, xiii + 374 pp.

Mildenstein, T., Tanshi, I. and Racey, P. (2016). Direct Exploitation of bats for Bushmeat and Medicine. In Kingston, T and Voigt, M. (eds), Bats in the Anthropocene. Springer.

My research contributes to and mobilizes natural history collections archived at institutions around the world.