Summer foraging habitats of bats in a Mediterranean region of the Iberian Peninsula

Rainho, Ana

doi:10.3161/1733-5329(2007)9[171:sfhobi]2.0.co;2

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“…Therefore, M. schreibersii most probably foraged in the semi-open environment of the forest edges and clearings as it was already reported by Constant and Cannonge (1957) , Ahl é n (1990) , Barataud (1992) , Weid and Helversen (1987) , Weid (1988) , Rou é and Barataud (1999) and Vincent et al (2011) . According to Lugon et al (2004) , Rainho (2007) and Vincent et al (2011) , they could also forage over urban areas. The presence of Trichoptera also suggested that they foraged near water bodies as described by Russo and Jones (2003) and Rainho (2007) .…”

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The diet of Schreiber’s bent-winged bat, Miniopterus schreibersii (Chiroptera: Miniopteridae), in northeastern Slovenia (Central Europe)

Presetnik

Aulagnier

2013

mammalia

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The diet of Miniopterus schreibersii was investigated by morphological analysis of prey remains in droppings from the spring to the autumn of 2000 from a bat roost in northeastern Slovenia (Central Europe). Lepidoptera dominated, having an average percent volume (APV) of 79 % and constituting the bulk of the diet throughout the year. By decreasing importance in the diet, the insects identified were Neuroptera -mostly Chrysopidae (APV 9.2 % ), Diptera (APV 7.4 % ), Trichoptera (APV 2.2 % ) and Coleoptera (APV 1.4 % ). The diet was most diverse in late October. It seems that M. schreibersii is an aerial hawker that specialises in eating moths, but can opportunistically switch to other seasonably abundant prey. It hunts smallto medium-sized winged prey (wing length: 2 -18 mm), of which most are tympanate insects.

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“…According to Lugon et al (2004) , Rainho (2007) and Vincent et al (2011) , they could also forage over urban areas. The presence of Trichoptera also suggested that they foraged near water bodies as described by Russo and Jones (2003) and Rainho (2007) .…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 96%

The diet of Schreiber’s bent-winged bat, Miniopterus schreibersii (Chiroptera: Miniopteridae), in northeastern Slovenia (Central Europe)

Presetnik

Aulagnier

2013

mammalia

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“…Third, given potentially significant yearly variation in bat activity (Hayes 1997), surveys limited to a single season (e.g., Vaughan et al 1997;Avila-Flores and Fenton 2005) seem ill-suited to extrapolating results to years other than the one sampled. Fourth, bat surveys should control for the effect of weather, especially temperature (Kunz et al 2009), but many studies (e.g., Gehrt and Chelsvig 2004;Rainho 2007;Loeb et al 2009) did not. Finally, some studies drew inappropriate conclusions by comparing urban data from one year to rural data from other years (Kurta and Teramino 1992) or dedicating unequal sampling effort to urban and non-urban surveys (Sparks et al 1998).…”

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Urbanization and the abundance and diversity of Prairie bats

Coleman

Barclay

2011

Urban Ecosyst

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The effects of urbanization on biodiversity are generally considered to be negative, but the potential for landscape context to modulate these effects has not been adequately examined because most urban ecology research has been conducted in one biome: the temperate forest. This bias also applies to studies of the urban ecology of bats, whose diversity is correlated with habitat heterogeneity. We investigated the hypothesis that in the fairly flat, homogeneous Prairies, urbanization, by creating structurally complex islands, benefits bats by increasing access to the vertical landscape elements (buildings and trees) in which they roost. From 2006 to 2008, we surveyed bat assemblages in and around Calgary, Alberta, using mist nets to capture them and bat detectors to record their echolocation activity. Our data supported the prediction that urbanization increases the abundance of Prairie bats, but not the prediction that it increases their diversity. Instead, the urban bat assemblage was less diverse, and exhibited decreased species evenness compared to non-urban assemblages. Although Myotis lucifugus dominated bat assemblages throughout our study area, this was most evident in the city, and this species drove the increased urban abundance of bats. Ultimately, we reject our hypothesis and conclude that urbanization in the Prairies may create attractive habitat for one synanthropic bat, but is detrimental to others.

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“…Furthermore, insect biomass is particularly high in riparian vegetation, with insects emerging from both forest and river ecosystems (Ober and Hayes, 2008). This strong selection pattern of riparian vegetation may be even more apparent in Mediterranean regions, where hot and dry conditions occur during summer, limiting the abundance of prey in other habitat types (Rainho, 2007).…”

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Testing the relevance of using spatial modeling to predict foraging habitat suitability around bat maternity: A case study in Mediterranean landscape

Fonderflick

Azam

Brochier³

et al. 2015

Biological Conservation

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Summer foraging habitats of bats in a Mediterranean region of the Iberian Peninsula

Cited by 66 publications

References 26 publications

The diet of Schreiber’s bent-winged bat, Miniopterus schreibersii (Chiroptera: Miniopteridae), in northeastern Slovenia (Central Europe)

The diet of Schreiber’s bent-winged bat, Miniopterus schreibersii (Chiroptera: Miniopteridae), in northeastern Slovenia (Central Europe)

Urbanization and the abundance and diversity of Prairie bats

Testing the relevance of using spatial modeling to predict foraging habitat suitability around bat maternity: A case study in Mediterranean landscape

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