Relating bat species presence to habitat features in natural forests of Slovakia (Central Europe) ...

• Main Authors: Kaňuch, P., Danko, Š., Celuch, M., Krištín, A., Pjenčák, P., Matis, Š., Šmídt, J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2008
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Mammalia; Chiroptera; Chordata; Animalia; bats; bat; Barbastella barbastellus; Nyctalus noctula
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13448877; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.13448877

(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) For the assessment of the habitat use of bats with consideration of a complexity of environmental features a largescale multivariate canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) was performed. Data were collected in April–September (1999–2005) using mist-netting and bat-detectors (n ¼ 209 samplings) in Slovakia (n ¼ 160 sites). For the habitat description, 17 environmental variables that characterised the sampling site, tree-species composition and general character of surrounding forest were selected. In study sites, altogether 93% of Slovak chiropterofauna species were recorded but only 16 species (2466 individuals) were recorded in more than 5% of samplings. The most common and frequent species were Myotis mystacinus (frequency of occurrence ¼ 57%, species dominance ¼ 12%) and Myotis myotis (44%, 10%), followed by Barbastella barbastellus (32%, 6%), Plecotus auritus (32%, 6%), Nyctalus noctula (31%, 9%) and Myotis brandtii (31%, 7%). Of the tested ...