Use of modified water sources by bats in a managed pine landscape

Vindigni, Melissa Anne; Morris, Adam; Miller, Darren A.; Kalcounis‐Rueppell, Matina C.

doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2009.07.058

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“…Bats -Riparian zones provide numerous benefits for insectivorous bats, including favorable open habitats in the middle of a wooded area, water availability, and emergent aquatic insects as food resource [53,57,[64][65][66][67][68][69]. Yoshikura et al (2011) found that species richness and total abundance of two tree-roosting specialists (Myotis ikonnikovi, Murina ussuriensis) and the Japanese largefooted bat (M. macrodactylus) were significantly higher in riparian habitats than those in non-riparian habitats [70].…”

Section: Impacts Of Aquatic Resource Subsidies On Specific Terrestriamentioning

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Importance of Riparian Zone: Effects of Resource Availability at Land-water Interface

Xiang¹,

Zhang²,

Richardson³

2017

Riparian Ecology and Conservation

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Riparian zone provides a variety of resources to organisms, including availability of water and subsidies. Water availability in riparian areas influences species distribution and trophic interaction of terrestrial food webs. Cross-ecosystem subsidies as resource flux of additional energy, nutrients, and materials benefit riparian populations and communities (e.g. plants, spiders, lizards, birds and mammals). However, aquatic ecosystems and riparian zones are prone to anthropogenic disturbances, which change water availability and affect the flux dynamics of cross-system subsidies. Yet, we still lack sufficient empirical studies assessing impacts of disturbances of land use, climate change and invasive species individually and interactively on aquatic and riparian ecosystems through influencing subsidy resource availability. In filling this knowledge gap, we can make more effective efforts to protect and conserve riparian habitats and biodiversity, and maintain riparian ecosystem functioning and services.

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Section: Impacts Of Aquatic Resource Subsidies On Specific Terrestriamentioning

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Importance of Riparian Zone: Effects of Resource Availability at Land-water Interface

Xiang¹,

Zhang²,

Richardson³

2017

Riparian Ecology and Conservation

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“…Many other studies indicate the exceptional significance of water bodies and riparian habitats for bat fauna in the temperate zone of the Holarctic (e.g. Vaughan et al 1997a;Menzel et al 2005;Vindigni et al 2009). It is usually associated with high abundance of flying insects, especially those undertaking their larval development in water (Fukui et al 2006).…”

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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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“…We chose to use distance to roads in all models since roads are a critical feature that indicate human influence on the landscape. Roads may also facilitate unimpeded movement, or foraging, as ditches (which may be used as alternative water and feeding sites, Vindigni et al, 2009) are commonly adjacent to most major roads in the area. Measures of fragmentation and heterogeneity were also found to be highly correlated so we only included the number of habitat patches as a general measure of fragmentation in model development.…”

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Developing macrohabitat models for bats in parks using maxent and testing them with data collected by citizen scientists

Buckman-Sewald¹,

Whorton²,

Root³

2014

Int. J. Biodivers. Conserv.

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Protected areas may function as islands of habitat in otherwise adverse environments for many species of North American animals. It is currently unclear how to maintain suitable foraging habitat for bats within these areas. Bats are nocturnal and highly mobile, making their specific needs difficult to determine. Using data collected from acoustically surveyed sites within protected areas in the Oak Openings Region of Northwest Ohio, a biodiversity hotspot, we developed spatially explicit macrohabitat models using maximum entropy modeling (Maxent). We then used data collected by citizen scientists to test these models to determine their success in predicting species presence. We found that the models were successful (AUC values > 0.75) at predicting the occurrence of the seven species for which models were developed, Lasionycteris noctivagans, Lasiurus borealis, Lasiuruscinereus, Myotis lucifugus, Myotiss eptentrionalis, Nycticeius humeralis, and Perimyotis subflavus. Within protected areas, it is important to manage for heterogeneous habitat composition at this intermediate scale to maintain potential for foraging areas for all occurring bat species. Data collected by citizen scientists is useful to test spatially explicit models and can potentially be used to monitor long term changes in bat species composition in these systems and across regions.

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Use of modified water sources by bats in a managed pine landscape

Cited by 38 publications

References 33 publications

Importance of Riparian Zone: Effects of Resource Availability at Land-water Interface

Importance of Riparian Zone: Effects of Resource Availability at Land-water Interface

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

Developing macrohabitat models for bats in parks using maxent and testing them with data collected by citizen scientists

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