The importance of linear landscape elements for the pipistrellePipistrellus pipistrellus and the serotine batEptesicus serotinus

Verboom, B.; Huitema, Hans J.

doi:10.1007/bf02698211

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“…Several studies have considered the effects of agricultural management at landscape scales versus focusing exclusively on farm-level management practices (Estrada et al 1993;Ekman and de Jong 1996;Verboom and Huitema 1997;Numa et al 2005;Faria et al 2006Faria and Baumgarten 2007;FuentesMontemayor et al 2011;Boughey et al 2011;Maas et al 2013). Within agricultural areas, bat activity increases with proximity to natural areas (Estrada et al 1993;Verboom and Huitema 1997;Boughey et al 2011) and in less fragmented landscapes (Fuentes-Montemayor et al 2011;Frey-Ehrenbold et al 2013) or in landscapes with more natural elements such as hedgerows and woodlots (Verboom and Huitema 1997).…”

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“…Within agricultural areas, bat activity increases with proximity to natural areas (Estrada et al 1993;Verboom and Huitema 1997;Boughey et al 2011) and in less fragmented landscapes (Fuentes-Montemayor et al 2011;Frey-Ehrenbold et al 2013) or in landscapes with more natural elements such as hedgerows and woodlots (Verboom and Huitema 1997).…”

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Bats in the Anthropogenic Matrix: Challenges and Opportunities for the Conservation of Chiroptera and Their Ecosystem Services in Agricultural Landscapes

Williams‐Guillén

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Maas

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

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Intensification in land-use and farming practices has had largely negative effects on bats, leading to population declines and concomitant losses of ecosystem services. Current trends in land-use change suggest that agricultural areas will further expand, while production systems may either experience further intensification (particularly in developing nations) or become more environmentally friendly (especially in Europe). In this chapter, we review the existing literature

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Section: Effects Of Agricultural Intensity On Bat Assemblage Structurmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bats in the Anthropogenic Matrix: Challenges and Opportunities for the Conservation of Chiroptera and Their Ecosystem Services in Agricultural Landscapes

Williams‐Guillén

Olimpi

Maas

et al. 2015

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

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“…Species presence and abundance were positively related to hedgerow density within the landscape and the number of hedgerow connections into the study wood (Fitzgibbon 1993(Fitzgibbon , 1997Verboom and Huitema 1997;Capizzi et al 2002). The exception to this was the edible dormouse (Glis glis); presence of the species in a wood was not related to the number of hedgerows connected to the wood (Cappizzi et al 2003).…”

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Are hedgerows effective corridors between fragments of woodland habitat? An evidence-based approach

2007

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Anthropogenic modification of the countryside has resulted in much of the landscape consisting of fragments of once continuous habitat. Increasing habitat connectivity at the landscape-scale has a vital role to play in the conservation of species restricted to such remnant patches, especially as species may attempt to track zones of habitat that satisfy their niche requirements as the climate changes. Conservation policies and management strategies frequently advocate corridor creation as one approach to restore connectivity and to facilitate species movements through the landscape. Here we examine the utility of hedgerows as corridors between woodland habitat patches using rigorous systematic review methodology. Systematic searching yielded 26 studies which satisfied the review inclusion criteria. The empirical evidence currently available is insufficient to evaluate the effectiveness of hedgerow corridors as a conservation tool to promote the population viability of woodland fauna. However, the studies did provide anecdotal evidence of positive local population effects and indicated that some species use hedgerows as movement conduits. More replicated and controlled field investigations or longterm monitoring are required in order to allow practitioners and policy makers to make better informed decisions about hedgerow corridor creation and preservation. The benefits of such corridors in regard to increasing habitat connectivity remain equivocal, and the role of corridors in mitigating the effects of climate change at the landscape-scale is even less well understood.

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“…Despite significant plasticity in the choice of roost and foraging sites, as well as a broad spectrum of diet (Vaughan 1997), these mammals prefer some particular habitats during night-time activity (Vaughan et al 1997a). These include some prominent structures that appear only after heavy transformation of the landscape by humans, most notably tree lines (Verboom and Huitema 1997). Bats choose patches of landscape differing in land use, human modification, vegetation, geomorphology and underlying geology that all determine the productivity of an ecosystem and prey abundance (Threfall et al 2012a, b).…”

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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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The importance of linear landscape elements for the pipistrellePipistrellus pipistrellus and the serotine batEptesicus serotinus

Cited by 215 publications

References 24 publications

Bats in the Anthropogenic Matrix: Challenges and Opportunities for the Conservation of Chiroptera and Their Ecosystem Services in Agricultural Landscapes

Bats in the Anthropogenic Matrix: Challenges and Opportunities for the Conservation of Chiroptera and Their Ecosystem Services in Agricultural Landscapes

Are hedgerows effective corridors between fragments of woodland habitat? An evidence-based approach

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

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