author
Ronald W. Turner
Best known for careful natural-history writing, this author contributed to classic studies of mammals and bats in North and Central America. The work has a field-research feel to it, grounded in observation and species records rather than popular storytelling.
1 Audiobook
Noteworthy Records of Bats From Nicaragua, with a Checklist of the Chiropteran Fauna of the Country
by J. Knox Jones, James Dale Smith, Ronald W. Turner
About the author
Ronald W. Turner is credited as the author of Mammals of the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming, published by the University of Kansas in 1974. He is also listed as a coauthor, with J. Knox Jones Jr. and James Dale Smith, of Noteworthy Records of Bats From Nicaragua, with a Checklist of the Chiropteran Fauna of the Country, published in 1971.
The available sources point to Turner as a researcher and writer in mammalogy, especially in work focused on species distribution and natural history. The Nicaragua study records information on 40 bat species, including 14 then reported for the first time from the country, which gives a good sense of the scientific, survey-based character of his writing.
Beyond those publications, I couldn’t confirm many personal biographical details from reliable sources available here, so this overview stays close to the documented record of his published work.