Temporal and spatial distribution and habitat associations of an urban population of New Zealand long-tailed bats (<i>Chalinolobus tuberculatus</i>)

Dekrout, Andrea; Clarkson, Bruce D.; Parsons, Stuart

doi:10.1080/03014223.2014.953551

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“…One possible explanation is the lack of environmental variation in green space in New Zealand. In New Zealand, cities generally provide a high amount of green space [ 32 , 37 , 52 , 53 ]. The high levels of exposure to green spaces due to outdoor vacationing (camping) may be responsible for a lack of variation in exposure to green spaces in New Zealand [ 27 ].…”

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Green Space and Depression during Pregnancy: Results from the Growing Up in New Zealand Study

Nichani

Dirks

Burns

et al. 2017

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Background: Antenatal depression is an important contributor to poor maternal health experienced by some women. This study aimed to determine whether exposure to green space during pregnancy is associated with less depression, and whether this association is moderated by relevant factors, such as age, education, self-identified ethnicity, physical activity, residential rurality, and socioeconomic status. Methods: Health data were sourced from the cohort study "Growing Up in New Zealand" comprised of 6772 participants. Green space was estimated based on the proportion of green space within the Census Area Unit. Adjusted logistic mixed effect models were used to investigate the association between green space and antenatal depression after controlling for confounding variables. Results: Maternal exposure to green space were not associated with lower odds of antenatal depression. Indications of effect modifications due to relevant factors were not observed. Conclusions: This study did not determine an association between access to green space (measured based on the distance to the nearest green space) and antenatal depression. Therefore, a link between green space and antenatal depression was not established. For that reason, ensuring residential areas contain adequate green space may or may not be helpful in preventing antenatal depression and adverse health outcomes associated with this depression. More studies focusing on pregnant women in a range of social contexts, and considering both exposure and access to green space, are warranted to determine the relationships between green space and antenatal depression.

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Green Space and Depression during Pregnancy: Results from the Growing Up in New Zealand Study

Nichani

Dirks

Burns

et al. 2017

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“…As such, translocation is a risky strategy relative to intensive in situ conservation management and should only be considered as a last resort. Predation and competition from introduced mammals and habitat degradation and disturbance are the major factors implicated in bat declines in New Zealand (Pryde et al ., ; O'Donnell et al ., ; Dekrout, Clarkson & Parsons, ) and are the focus of in situ conservation management efforts.…”

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Social implications of a colony collapse in a highly structured vertebrate species (long‐tailed bat, Chalinolobus tuberculatus)

Monks¹,

O’Donnell²

2016

Animal Conservation

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Strong social structuring within a population can confer fitness advantages to group members, but may also affect the ability of a population to recover from local extinctions. Opportunities to evaluate the dynamics of the collapse of a sub-population on a vertebrate population in the wild are rare, requiring a crash during a long-term study of marked individuals. Endangered long-tailed bats Chalinolobus tuberculatus, which are members of the widespread family Vespertilionidae, live in closed social groups as evidenced by non-random associations of individuals and a low degree of mixing among colonies. During a 19-year mark-recapture study of long-tailed bats in the Eglinton Valley, New Zealand, one colony of bats collapsed over a 2-year period in which numbers of introduced predators were high. We investigated individual-and colony-level implications of this local extinction event. Survivors (11 known) were assimilated into the neighbouring colony during and immediately after the collapse, but retained higher association rates with individuals from their former colony. The neighbouring colony gradually extended its roosting range into habitat formerly occupied by the extinct colony. Acceptance of individuals into other colonies demonstrates resilience of highly structured vertebrate populations to local crashes.

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“…In particular, lighting appeared to form a barrier to bats' use of some areas of habitat: along the Waikato River corridor little activity was detected downstream of the first major well-lit bridge compared with upstream (Dekrout 2009;Le Roux & Le Roux 2012). In Hamilton, bat activity was correlated negatively with streetlight density (Dekrout et al 2014) despite anecdotal reports suggesting that long-tailed bats will forage occasionally around or above streetlights (Connolly 2013).…”

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Roads and wildlife: the need for evidence-based decisions; New Zealand bats as a case study

Jones¹,

Borkin²,

Smith³

2019

NZJE

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Roads and associated land transport activities can affect a wide range of indigenous terrestrial vertebrate species. National legislation, particularly the Resource Management Act 1991, requires that developers 'avoid, remedy or mitigate' the adverse environmental effects of their activities. How these effects are identified and managed in New Zealand varies because regulators and land transport contractors deal with these issues on a case-by-case basis. In recent years, the effects of new road projects on long-tailed bats (Chalinolobus tuberculatus) have been receiving attention. In this review, we summarise evidence on likely road infrastructure impacts on bat populations and the efficacy of mitigation approaches, used both internationally and in New Zealand. Our findings indicate that most mitigation methods have little, if any, scientific evidence of their effectiveness. We recommend that such evidence is essential to guide investment in mitigating road effects on bats in New Zealand. Given that such evidence is rare, future investment should be guided by an adaptive management framework that is justified by strong, inferential, evidence-based logic, and accompanied by robust, appropriately designed monitoring planned, in advance, to allow an objective assessment of a method's effectiveness in mitigating an impact. Because such monitoring may be beyond what a single development project can realistically achieve, we suggest the development of a collaborative funding model for supporting the testing and development of mitigation methods. This work is likely to have a significant influence on the future planning and design of road infrastructure projects to minimise the impacts on bats and, more generally, on any native wildlife populations under threat from infrastructure development.

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Temporal and spatial distribution and habitat associations of an urban population of New Zealand long-tailed bats (Chalinolobus tuberculatus)

Cited by 15 publications

References 37 publications

Green Space and Depression during Pregnancy: Results from the Growing Up in New Zealand Study

Green Space and Depression during Pregnancy: Results from the Growing Up in New Zealand Study

Social implications of a colony collapse in a highly structured vertebrate species (long‐tailed bat, Chalinolobus tuberculatus)

Roads and wildlife: the need for evidence-based decisions; New Zealand bats as a case study

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