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To evaluate the site- and landscape-level factors influencing winter bat occupancy and foraging habitat associations in southeastern working pine forests.

December 18, 2023Animal ConservationOpen Access

Bat winter foraging habitat use in working forests: a multispecies spatial occupancy approach

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SPSantiago Perea GFGuillermo Fandós ALAngela L. Larsen‐Gray

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Spatial occupancy study reveals higher bat richness in contiguous forests with lower basal area across working pine landscapes, highlighting key forest management targets for winter conservation.

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To evaluate the site- and landscape-level factors influencing winter bat occupancy and foraging habitat associations in southeastern working pine forests.
Deployed Anabat Swift acoustic detectors across 240 sites situated in six working pine forest landscapes from January to March between 2020 and 2022.
Modeled community and species-specific winter habitat use using hierarchical multispecies spatial occupancy models incorporating site and landscape environmental covariates.
Detected five bat species and three species groups across 93% (224/240) of sampled forest sites.
Observed higher bat species richness in locations with high proportions of contiguous forest cover and low levels of tree basal area.
Identified ambient temperature as a significant positive driver of acoustic detectability, with forest covariates exerting species-specific effects matching distinct foraging adaptations.

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Perea et al. (2023) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a71b65af44fa9f079df70dc https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.12924

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December 18, 2023Animal ConservationOpen Access

Bat winter foraging habitat use in working forests: a multispecies spatial occupancy approach

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Authors

SPSantiago Perea GFGuillermo Fandós ALAngela L. Larsen‐Gray

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Spatial occupancy study reveals higher bat richness in contiguous forests with lower basal area across working pine landscapes, highlighting key forest management targets for winter conservation.

Key Points

To evaluate the site- and landscape-level factors influencing winter bat occupancy and foraging habitat associations in southeastern working pine forests.
Deployed Anabat Swift acoustic detectors across 240 sites situated in six working pine forest landscapes from January to March between 2020 and 2022.
Modeled community and species-specific winter habitat use using hierarchical multispecies spatial occupancy models incorporating site and landscape environmental covariates.
Detected five bat species and three species groups across 93% (224/240) of sampled forest sites.
Observed higher bat species richness in locations with high proportions of contiguous forest cover and low levels of tree basal area.
Identified ambient temperature as a significant positive driver of acoustic detectability, with forest covariates exerting species-specific effects matching distinct foraging adaptations.

Cite This Study

Perea et al. (2023) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a71b65af44fa9f079df70dc https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.12924

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