Major roads have important negative effects on insectivorous bat activity
International audience The development of transportation infrastructure has been identified as one of the main pressures on biodiversity. The effects of transport infrastructure are more documented for terrestrial mammals, birds and amphibians than for bats. To assess the impacts of roads on bat act...
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ftunivnantes:oai:HAL:hal-02556075v1 2023-05-15T17:59:55+02:00 Major roads have important negative effects on insectivorous bat activity Claireau, Fabien Bas, Yves Pauwels, Julie Barré, Kévin Machon, Nathalie Allegrini, Benjamin Puechmaille, Sébastien Kerbiriou, Christian Universität Greifswald - University of Greifswald Naturalia-Environnement Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la COnservation (CESCO) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier (UMR ISEM) Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE) Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut de recherche pour le développement IRD : UR226-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Station de Biologie Marine de Concarneau Direction générale déléguée à la Recherche, à l’Expertise, à la Valorisation et à l’Enseignement-Formation (DGD.REVE) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN) ANRT; NATURALIA-ENVIRONNEMENT 2019 https://hal.science/hal-02556075 https://hal.science/hal-02556075/document https://hal.science/hal-02556075/file/S0006320718315702.pdf https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.04.002 en eng HAL CCSD Elsevier info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.04.002 hal-02556075 https://hal.science/hal-02556075 https://hal.science/hal-02556075/document https://hal.science/hal-02556075/file/S0006320718315702.pdf doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2019.04.002 PII: S0006-3207(18)31570-2 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/ info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess CC-BY-NC ISSN: 0006-3207 Biological Conservation https://hal.science/hal-02556075 Biological Conservation, 2019, 235, pp.53-62. ⟨10.1016/j.biocon.2019.04.002⟩ [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology [SDV.EE.ECO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology environment/Ecosystems info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2019 ftunivnantes https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.04.002 2023-02-01T00:28:48Z International audience The development of transportation infrastructure has been identified as one of the main pressures on biodiversity. The effects of transport infrastructure are more documented for terrestrial mammals, birds and amphibians than for bats. To assess the impacts of roads on bat activity, we carried out full-night acoustic recordings of bat calls at 306 sampling points at different distances from a major road at three study sites in France. To assess the relationship between bat activity and the distance to the major road, we performed generalized linear mixed model analyses for thirteen different species or groups and additionally explored the non-linear effect with generalized additive mixed models. Our results showed that low-flying species are more affected than high-flying species. Indeed, we found a significant negative effect of major roads on bat activity for the 'clutter-adapted' species, Eptesicus serotinus, Myotis spp., Pipistrellus pipistrellus and Rhinolophus hipposideros. These results demonstrate that the road-effect zone of major roads extends up to five kilometres. Extrapolating those road-effects zones to the major roads in the European Union, we estimated that 35% of the European Union is potentially negatively impacted. Finally, it seems urgent to consider these road effects with the cumulative effects of other roads by improving habitat connectivity and foraging areas in land use policies. Additionally, to implement drastic conservation practices for species of conservation concern in environmental impact assessment studies, efficient mitigation and offset measures implemented should be sized proportionally to the disturbance caused. Article in Journal/Newspaper Pipistrellus pipistrellus Université de Nantes: HAL-UNIV-NANTES Biological Conservation 235 53 62 |
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International audience The development of transportation infrastructure has been identified as one of the main pressures on biodiversity. The effects of transport infrastructure are more documented for terrestrial mammals, birds and amphibians than for bats. To assess the impacts of roads on bat activity, we carried out full-night acoustic recordings of bat calls at 306 sampling points at different distances from a major road at three study sites in France. To assess the relationship between bat activity and the distance to the major road, we performed generalized linear mixed model analyses for thirteen different species or groups and additionally explored the non-linear effect with generalized additive mixed models. Our results showed that low-flying species are more affected than high-flying species. Indeed, we found a significant negative effect of major roads on bat activity for the 'clutter-adapted' species, Eptesicus serotinus, Myotis spp., Pipistrellus pipistrellus and Rhinolophus hipposideros. These results demonstrate that the road-effect zone of major roads extends up to five kilometres. Extrapolating those road-effects zones to the major roads in the European Union, we estimated that 35% of the European Union is potentially negatively impacted. Finally, it seems urgent to consider these road effects with the cumulative effects of other roads by improving habitat connectivity and foraging areas in land use policies. Additionally, to implement drastic conservation practices for species of conservation concern in environmental impact assessment studies, efficient mitigation and offset measures implemented should be sized proportionally to the disturbance caused. |
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Universität Greifswald - University of Greifswald Naturalia-Environnement Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la COnservation (CESCO) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier (UMR ISEM) Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE) Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut de recherche pour le développement IRD : UR226-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Station de Biologie Marine de Concarneau Direction générale déléguée à la Recherche, à l’Expertise, à la Valorisation et à l’Enseignement-Formation (DGD.REVE) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN) ANRT; NATURALIA-ENVIRONNEMENT |
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Major roads have important negative effects on insectivorous bat activity |
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Major roads have important negative effects on insectivorous bat activity |
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Major roads have important negative effects on insectivorous bat activity |
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Major roads have important negative effects on insectivorous bat activity |
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Major roads have important negative effects on insectivorous bat activity |
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major roads have important negative effects on insectivorous bat activity |
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