Differences in seasonal survival suggest species‐specific reactions to climate change in two sympatric bat species ...

(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Long‐lived animals with a low annual reproductive output need a long time to recover from population crashes and are, thus, likely to face high extinction risk, if the current global environmental change will increase mortality rates. To aid conserv...

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Main Authors: Reusch, Christine, Gampe, Jutta, Scheuerlein, Alexander, Meier, Frauke, Grosche, Lena, Kerth, Gerald
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Zenodo 2019
Subjects:
bat
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13433480
https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.13433480
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Summary:(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Long‐lived animals with a low annual reproductive output need a long time to recover from population crashes and are, thus, likely to face high extinction risk, if the current global environmental change will increase mortality rates. To aid conservation of those species, knowledge on the variability of mortality rates is essential. Unfortunately, however, individual‐based multiyear data sets that are required for that have only rarely been collected for free‐ranging long‐lived mammals. Here, we used a five‐year data set comprising activity data of 1,445 RFID‐tagged individuals of two long‐lived temperate zone bat species, Natterer's bats (Myotis nattereri) and Daubenton's bats (Myotis daubentonii), at their joint hibernaculum. Both species are listed as being of high conservation interest by the European Habitats Directive. Applying mixed‐effects logistic regression, we explored seasonal survival differences in these two species which differ in foraging ...