Habitat Use by Forest Bats in South Carolina in Relation to Local, Stand, and Landscape Characteristics

Loeb, Susan C.; O’Keefe, Joy M.

doi:10.2193/0022-541x(2006)70[1210:hubfbi]2.0.co;2

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“…Existing analyses taking into account microhabitats provide, however, contradictory results. Although Hein et al (2009) found the probability of some species' occurrence several times greater where road was present in forest, another study found the probability of bat detection increasing with distance from the nearest road (Loeb and O'Keefe 2006). Forest edges are also considered preferred by foraging bats (Russ and Montgomery 2002;Cel'uch and Kropil 2008), although neither Vaughan et al (1997a) nor this study reveal their exceptional importance.…”

Section: General Habitat Preferences Of Bats In the Study Areamentioning

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Habitat preferences of bats in anthropogenically altered, mosaic landscapes of northern Poland

Ciechanowski

2015

Eur J Wildl Res

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Few studies refer to the large-scale habitat preferences of bat assemblages in temperate mainland Europe. The study aimed at habitat associations of bats in the postglacial lakelands of northern Poland. Sixty-nine walking transects were divided into sections belonging to 36 habitat classes. Broadband ultrasound detectors were applied to record bat echolocation calls, identified to the species level by spectral analysis. Selection or avoidance of habitat categories was tested using Z statistic with a Bonferroni adjustment, and niche breadth was estimated by calculating Levin's formula and niche overlap-Pianka index. All bats (except Eptesicus serotinus) selected water bodies. They avoided arable land, coniferous and mixed forests, their edges and suburbs. Nyctalus noctula was the most eurytopic species, using most habitats in proportion to their availability. E. serotinus selected villages and roads in coniferous forests. Narrower habitat niches were occupied by morphologically similar pipistrelles. Pipistrellus pipistrellus preferred tree lines, Pipistrellus nathusii avoided tree lines and villages, and Pipistrellus pygmaeus preferred roads in deciduous forests but avoided tree lines. The most stenotopic Myotis sp. avoided roads in mixed and coniferous forests, tree lines and built-up areas. Most species strongly overlapped in habitat niches, and thus, their resource partitioning was probably based on using different hunting tactics. P. pygmaeus, although considered a sibling species of P. pipistrellus, overlapped in habitat niche much more with P. nathusii. In the latter case, resource partitioning may result from larger differences in body size and frequency of echolocation calls. The importance of water bodies for bats was higher than in Western Europe, and importance of woodland was lower, presumably due to much higher limnicity. The results provide a base for regionspecific landscape planning guidelines, applicable to bat conservation.

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Section: General Habitat Preferences Of Bats In the Study Areamentioning

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Habitat preferences of bats in anthropogenically altered, mosaic landscapes of northern Poland

Ciechanowski

2015

Eur J Wildl Res

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“…In temperate regions, increases in activity of open-space aerial insectivorous bat species, similar to Promops and Lasiurus spp., are associated with reduced tree density that occurs following thinning. The structural changes resulting from reduced tree density benefit these bats by creating a habitat structure they are able to use more effectively [27,50,77,78].…”

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“…To classify bat activity (i.e., passes) to family and genus post file-conversion and scrubbing, we used two methods: (1) automated identification using Kaleidoscope Pro 3 software and associated Neotropical and North American bat classifiers; and (2) visual identification of spectrograms [42][43][44][45][46][47][48] displayed in the Kaleidoscope Pro 3 Viewer. When classifying bat passes using automated and visual identification, differentiating among species' calls can be difficult; it is affected by the degree of clutter at sampling locations, direction the bat is pointing relative to the microphone when it emits a call, angle and direction of the detector microphone, call attenuation, Doppler shift, and similarity of call characteristics of different species [49][50][51][52]. Therefore, to avoid misidentification, we only classified recorded bat passes to family and genus.…”

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Forest Structure and Composition Affect Bats in a Tropical Evergreen Broadleaf Forest

Willcox

Giuliano

Watine

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Forests

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Abstract:The lack of knowledge regarding many aerial insectivorous bats and their relationships with forest characteristics limits conservation decision-making for tropical rainforests and for this important bat group. Therefore, our objective was to understand the effects of forest structure and composition on these bats in the Neotropical evergreen broadleaf forest of Belize, Central America. We conducted bat monitoring and quantified 51 forest characteristics at 24 locations in the Chiquibul Forest Reserve (CFR) from May-July 2014. Simple linear and backward stepwise multiple regression analyses were used to examine relationships between bat richness and activity and forest characteristics. Bat genus richness and total activity were directly related to overstory canopy depth and inversely related to ≤4 structural characteristics. Lasiurus, Myotis, Promops, and Pteronotus spp. were affected by ≤7 forest characteristics; the responses were explained by preferences for less-cluttered, open space for flying and foraging and species-specific food and cover requirements. However, bat richness and activity were often unaffected by forest structure and composition in the CFR, suggesting that at this taxonomic level, bats may not be very sensitive to variation in forest characteristics, may not be very useful indicators of alteration, and may have some tolerance for disturbance and change.

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“…In general, exotic plantations are likely to be of more value to native species when they are older (Clout & Gaze 1984), when the surrounding or alternate land cover is intensively managed pasture (Maunder et al 2005), and when forested habitat is locally rare (Berndt et al 2008). This increase in value of exotic plantations as they age certainly appears to be the case for bat species, because rates of detection often increase and are more consistent in older forest stands (Thomas 1988;Erickson & West 1996;Parker et al 1996), although this varies amongst species (Loeb & O'Keefe 2006). Detection rates are highest along roads in the oldest stands (Moore 2001), probably because more roosts are available in older trees (Swystun et al 2007), and because well-established forests create warmer and more stable local climates, allowing longer periods of profitable foraging throughout the night (Alma 1975;Chen et al 1995;O'Donnell 2000a;Turbill 2008).…”

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The importance of exotic plantation forest for the New Zealand long-tailed bat (Chalinolobus tuberculatus)

Borkin

Parsons

2010

New Zealand Journal of Zoology

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Environmental certification schemes have stimulated increasing interest in biodiversity and its management within exotic plantation forests. These schemes expect management to be scientifically-based, even though little is known about how often, or which, native species use exotic plantation forests. Greater knowledge of the ecology of native species within exotic plantation forests is required to advise management and reduce risks to native species, particularly those that are rare, such as the New Zealand long-tailed bat (Chalinolobus tuberculatus). Long-tailed bats use exotic plantation forests throughout New Zealand but need protection from the impacts of forest management, and particularly clear-fell harvest, that is achievable only through a better understanding of their biology. The consequences of the current reduced re-planting, and the conversion of plantation forests into pasture resulting in smaller forested areas, should not be ignored because they may be associated with reductions in longtailed bat populations. We review the current knowledge of long-tailed bats' use of exotic plantation forests, and report for the first time which exotic plantations long-tailed bats are known to use. We make recommendations for the design of monitoring programmes to detect long-tailed bats within plantation forests, and for research into the effects of forest management, especially logging, and comment on the likely impacts of reductions in forested areas on longtailed bats.

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Habitat Use by Forest Bats in South Carolina in Relation to Local, Stand, and Landscape Characteristics

Cited by 110 publications

References 2 publications

Habitat preferences of bats in anthropogenically altered, mosaic landscapes of northern Poland

Habitat preferences of bats in anthropogenically altered, mosaic landscapes of northern Poland

Forest Structure and Composition Affect Bats in a Tropical Evergreen Broadleaf Forest

The importance of exotic plantation forest for the New Zealand long-tailed bat (Chalinolobus tuberculatus)

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