Beauty and the beast: how a bat utilizes forests shaped by outbreaks of an insect pest ...
(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) The consequences of different management strategies following natural disturbances are a matter of global concern. In former production forests around the Northern Hemisphere, the abandonment of intervention, such as removal of dead wood, after outb...
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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Zenodo
2018
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13453916 https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.13453916 |
| Summary: | (Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) The consequences of different management strategies following natural disturbances are a matter of global concern. In former production forests around the Northern Hemisphere, the abandonment of intervention, such as removal of dead wood, after outbreaks of bark beetles has been increasingly promoted to regain more natural conditions. However, many focal species of conservation, such as the barbastelle bat Barbastella barbastellus, do not primarily depend on dead wood but might respond indirectly to disturbance-induced changes of forest structural attributes. We investigated the response of B. barbastellus foraging activity and roost selection by combining acoustic surveys, radio telemetry, and airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) to characterize B. barbastellus habitat use on different scales. B. barbastellus foraging activity increased with increasing canopy opening. Maternity colonies were recorded exclusively in trees killed by bark beetles. Bats ... |
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