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Research Areas
Biography
I use bats as a study system to examine how human activities affect wildlife communities, animal movement, and habitat selection, and what these responses mean for conservation. My current work integrates movement ecology with disease surveillance.
Research Interests
- Community ecology
- Landscape ecology
- Movement ecology
- Conservation biology
- Bioacoustics and machine learning
Education
- PhD: Texas Tech University
- MSc: Jagannath University, Bangladesh
- BSc: Jagannath University, Bangladesh
Grants
- Brandon A. Gross Research Endowment Scholarship, Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University.
- Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research.
- Grants-in-aid, Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University.
- J. Knox Jones Jr. Memorial Scholarship, Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University.
- Graduate School Research Support, Texas Tech University.
- Bat Conservation International Student Scholar Award. Recipient of the Promoting Diversity in Conservation Award from Bat conservation International.
- American Society of Mammalogists Grants-in-Aid.
- Rufford Foundation Small Grants for Nature Conservation.
- Michelle C. Knapp Memorial Scholarship, Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University.
- IdeaWild Equipment Grant.
Highlighted Publications
Hasan MAU and Kingston T (2026) Habitat perforation changes bat species composition and acoustic activity in forest remnants. Biodiversity and Conservation 35, 223, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-026-03429-2
Hasan MR, Mojumdar A, Ahammed MS, Hasan S, Hasan MAU (2026) Population size and roost use of the greater false vampire bat Lyroderma lyra (Family: Megadermatidae) in a northern hill forest with updated distribution in Bangladesh. Journal of Bat Research & Conservation 19(1). https://doi.org/10.14709/BarbJ.19.1.2026.03
Akhter T, Mojumdar A, Ahammed MS, Hasan MR, Rahaman MA, Mahmud MM, Naher H, Debbarma R, and Hasan MAU (2026) Forest type as a key driver of butterfly species diversity. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 9509378, 21 pages.
Hasan MAU, Akhter T, Bates P, and Kingston T (2025) First record of the round-eared tube-nosed bat Murina cyclotis Dobson, 1872 (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from Bangladesh. Mammal Research, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13364-025-00798-x
Hasan MAU and Kingston T (2022) Bats of Bangladesh—A Systematic Review of the Diversity and Distribution with Recommendations for Future Research. Diversity, 14 (12), 1042.
Neha SA, Khatun MUH, and Hasan MAU (2021) Resource partitioning and niche overlap between hoolock gibbon (Hoolock hoolock) and other frugivorous vertebrates in a tropical semi- evergreen forest. Primates, 62: 331-342.
Hasan MAU, Khatun MUH, and Neha SA (2018) Group size, composition and conservation challenges of capped langur (Trachypithecus pileatus) in Satchari National Park, Jagannath University Journal of Life and Earth Sciences, 4(2): 135 – 153.
Hasan MAU, Neha SA, Baki MA, and Babu MQ (2018) An inventory of butterfly species in relation to food sources and climatic factors influencing their diversity and richness in a semi-evergreen forest of Bangladesh. Arthropods, 7(3): 53-68.