Home range and habitat selection by a threatened bat in exotic plantation forest

Borkin, Kerry M.; Parsons, Stuart

doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2011.05.018

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“…As a result of their poor flying skills, juvenile bats may also capture fewer prey items than adults during the same foraging times (Anthony & Kunz, 1977). Yearling North‐western Crows ( Corvus caurinus ) select a broader range of prey sizes than do adults (Richardson & Verbeek, 1987), and this pattern holds true for some bats (Borkin & Parsons, 2011; Hamilton & Barclay, 1998; Salsamendi et al., 2008). A combination of poor flying and handling skills may lead juvenile M. tuberculata to be less “choosy.” These results must be interpreted with caution as our sample size for juveniles was low and we urge future studies to repeat our study with more individuals to confirm our speculative conclusions.…”

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“…Alternatively, a more restricted home range that optimizes foraging effort against energetic gains may be more strongly selected for in females compared to males. The home range requirements of bats are driven by their energetic requirements, which vary according to sex, age, and reproductive status (e.g., Borkin & Parsons, 2011; O'Donnell, 2001; Racey & Swift, 1985). Lactating M. lucifugus have 51% smaller home range than males (Henry, Thomas, Vaudry, & Carrier, 2002), and Pipistrellus pipistrellus (Racey & Swift, 1985), Macrophyllum macrophyllum (Meyer, Weinbeer, & Kalko, 2005), and Chalinolobus tuberculatus in the Eglinton Valley (O'Donnell, 2001) all have smaller home ranges than males.…”

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Spatiotemporal and demographic variation in the diet of New Zealand lesser short‐tailed bats (Mystacina tuberculata)

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Tucker

Clare

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Ecology and Evolution

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Variation in the diet of generalist insectivores can be affected by site‐specific traits including weather, habitat, and season, as well as demographic traits such as reproductive status and age. We used molecular methods to compare diets of three distinct New Zealand populations of lesser short‐tailed bats, Mystacina tuberculata. Summer diets were compared between a southern cold‐temperate (Eglinton) and a northern population (Puroera). Winter diets were compared between Pureora and a subtropical offshore island population (Hauturu). This also permitted seasonal diet comparisons within the Pureora population. Lepidoptera and Diptera accounted for >80% of MOTUs identified from fecal matter at each site/season. The proportion of orders represented within prey and the Simpson diversity index, differed between sites and seasons within the Pureora population. For the Pureora population, the value of the Simpson diversity index was higher in summer than winter and was higher in Pureora compared to Eglinton. Summer Eglinton samples revealed that juvenile diets appeared to be more diverse than other demographic groups. Lactating females had the lowest dietary diversity during summer in Pureora. In Hauturu, we found a significant negative relationship between mean ambient temperature and prey richness. Our data suggest that M. tuberculata incorporate a narrower diversity of terrestrial insects than previously reported. This provides novel insights into foraging behavior and ecological interactions within different habitats. Our study is the first from the Southern Hemisphere to use molecular techniques to examine spatiotemporal variation in the diet of a generalist insectivore that inhabits a contiguous range with several habitat types and climates.

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Spatiotemporal and demographic variation in the diet of New Zealand lesser short‐tailed bats (Mystacina tuberculata)

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Clare

et al. 2018

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“…Home range size and use patterns in bat species have been linked to a number of different predictors, including foraging strategy, distribution of food resources, wing morphology, body size, colony size, social and reproductive behaviours (e.g., Fenton, 1997;Meyer et al, 2005;Borkin and Parsons, 2011). Small bats with relatively short and wide wings and large, rounded wing tips tend to be slow flying but highly manoeuvrable, suiting them for foraging, often by gleaning, in cluttered forest habitats (Norberg and Rayner, 1987;Webb et al, 1998).…”

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Large Home Range Size in the Ground Foraging Bat,Mystacina tuberculata, in Cold Temperate Rainforest, New Zealand

Christie

O’Donnell²

2014

Acta Chiropterologica

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“…Despite limitations in habitat quality, plantation forests provide large areas of additional habitat for threatened long-tailed bats, Chalinolobus tuberculatus, in New Zealand (Borkin and Parsons 2011a). Borkin and Parsons (2011b) found these bats roosting in crevices, fissures, and small hollows in the oldest stands of Monterey pine, Pinus radiata, plantations (25-30 years), with females choosing to roost within 150 m of waterways.…”

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“…Borkin and Parsons (2011b) found these bats roosting in crevices, fissures, and small hollows in the oldest stands of Monterey pine, Pinus radiata, plantations (25-30 years), with females choosing to roost within 150 m of waterways. In these plantations, bats selected home ranges with higher proportions of relatively old stands than available (Borkin and Parsons 2011a). Males selected edges with open unplanted areas within their home ranges, which females avoided, instead selecting older stands for foraging.…”

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Insectivorous Bats and Silviculture: Balancing Timber Production and Bat Conservation

Law

Park

Lacki

2015

Bats in the Anthropocene: Conservation of Bats in a Changing World

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Forests are one of the most important habitats for insectivorous bats as they offer the potential for both roosting and foraging. We reviewed silvicultural literature from North America, Australia, and Europe and found that diverse research approaches have revealed commonalities in bat responses to forest silviculture. Almost all silvicultural treatments evaluated were compatible with some use by forest bats, though different bat ensembles respond in different ways. Ensemble ecomorphology was a consistent predictor of how bats respond to vegetative clutter and its dynamic changes as forests regenerate and develop a dense structure following harvesting. Sustaining high levels of bat diversity in timber production forests requires a mix of silvicultural treatments and exclusion areas staggered across the landscape, regardless of forest type or geographic region. Use of edge habitats, exclusion areas/set-asides, and riparian corridors for roosting and foraging by bats were consistent themes in the literature reviewed, and these habitat elements need to be considered in forest planning. Densities of hollow or dead trees sufficient to support large populations of roosting bats are unknown and remain a major knowledge gap, but will likely be species contingent. New paradigm shifts in forest management away from the use of even-aged systems to multi-spatial scale retention of mature forest including trees with cavities should be beneficial to bats, which are influenced by landscape-scale management. Such

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Home range and habitat selection by a threatened bat in exotic plantation forest

Cited by 21 publications

References 61 publications

Spatiotemporal and demographic variation in the diet of New Zealand lesser short‐tailed bats (Mystacina tuberculata)

Spatiotemporal and demographic variation in the diet of New Zealand lesser short‐tailed bats (Mystacina tuberculata)

Large Home Range Size in the Ground Foraging Bat,Mystacina tuberculata, in Cold Temperate Rainforest, New Zealand

Insectivorous Bats and Silviculture: Balancing Timber Production and Bat Conservation

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