Habitat Use by Bats in Eastern Maine

Zimmerman, Guthrie S.; Glanz, William E.

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“…All aquatic habitats, with the exception of beaver meadows, were highly used on the Quabbin (Table 3) and their abundance and diversity are most likely a major factor in the area having a diverse and abundant bat community (Krusic et al 1996;Zimmerman and Glanz 2000;Owen et al 2004;Menzel et al 2005a;Ford et al 2005). Still-water habitats are preferred sites for foraging and drinking (Krusic et al 1996) and Xowing-water habitats are used for foraging, but especially commuting (Krusic et al 1996).…”

Section: Aquatic Habitatsmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…The most recently published bat community research from the northeast re-emphasized the importance of aquatic habitats as reported in earlier bat research from the region (Krusic et al 1996;Zimmerman and Glanz 2000;Broders et al 2006). While it is clearly recognized that bats are an important component of the natural world, speciWc questions about the composition and relative levels of activity by the bat community in forest habitats remain unaddressed due to the relative paucity of bat research (Parsons et al 2007).…”

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Habitat-associated and temporal patterns of bat activity in a diverse forest landscape of southern New England, USA

Brooks

2008

Biodivers Conserv

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The development and use of acoustic recording technology, surveys have revealed the composition, relative levels of activity, and preliminary habitat use of bat communities of various forest locations. However, detailed examinations of acoustic surveys results to investigate temporal patterns of bat activity are rare. Initial active acoustic surveys of bat activity on the Quabbin Reservoir watershed in central Massachusetts recorded high numbers of call sequences by Wve bat species. The results showed the importance of aquatic and open habitats for bats in this diverse forest landscape. Because the preliminary surveys were restricted in extent (habitats), number (replicates), and duration (active surveys only, limited number of repeated surveys), the authors strongly recommended more comprehensive and extensive surveys of bat activity on the area. This paper reports the results of active (manual) and passive (automated) acoustic bat activity surveys in three replicates of ten habitats, conducted three to four times per year over the course of the study between 2004 and 2006. Over the full study, 2,800 actively-recorded 37,632 passivelyrecorded call sequences were examined and identiWed to species when possible. General patterns in activity did not diVer by habitat between the two survey methods. Call sequences were recorded more often in open, especially aquatic habitats than in cluttered habitats. The use of passive surveys allowed for the assessment of temporal patterns of activity and an analysis of the relationship between ambient temperature and activity.

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Section: Aquatic Habitatsmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Habitat-associated and temporal patterns of bat activity in a diverse forest landscape of southern New England, USA

Brooks

2008

Biodivers Conserv

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“…Acoustic surveys can be conducted in areas where capturing bats with the traditional method of mist netting is difficult (that is within parks). The present data collected by acoustics has been successfully used to model species presence in association with habitat characteristics in a number of other studies (Brooks and Ford, 2005;Erickson and West, 2003;Ford et al, 2005;Ford et al, 2006;Francl et al, 2004;Loeb and O'Keefe, 2006;Zimmerman and Glanz, 2000).…”

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Developing macrohabitat models for bats in parks using maxent and testing them with data collected by citizen scientists

Buckman-Sewald¹,

Whorton²,

Root³

2014

Int. J. Biodivers. Conserv.

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Protected areas may function as islands of habitat in otherwise adverse environments for many species of North American animals. It is currently unclear how to maintain suitable foraging habitat for bats within these areas. Bats are nocturnal and highly mobile, making their specific needs difficult to determine. Using data collected from acoustically surveyed sites within protected areas in the Oak Openings Region of Northwest Ohio, a biodiversity hotspot, we developed spatially explicit macrohabitat models using maximum entropy modeling (Maxent). We then used data collected by citizen scientists to test these models to determine their success in predicting species presence. We found that the models were successful (AUC values > 0.75) at predicting the occurrence of the seven species for which models were developed, Lasionycteris noctivagans, Lasiurus borealis, Lasiuruscinereus, Myotis lucifugus, Myotiss eptentrionalis, Nycticeius humeralis, and Perimyotis subflavus. Within protected areas, it is important to manage for heterogeneous habitat composition at this intermediate scale to maintain potential for foraging areas for all occurring bat species. Data collected by citizen scientists is useful to test spatially explicit models and can potentially be used to monitor long term changes in bat species composition in these systems and across regions.

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“…Riparian corridors are important areas of bat foraging activity (Hayes and Adam 1996;Zimmerman and Glanz 2000;Brigham 2007), with male and female bats segregating themselves along corridor reaches in upland landscapes, with males more abundant at higher elevations Senior et al 2005). Activity of bats along riparian corridors appears to be scale-dependent, with vegetation architecture, i.e.…”

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Insectivorous Bats and Silviculture: Balancing Timber Production and Bat Conservation

Law

Park

Lacki

2015

Bats in the Anthropocene: Conservation of Bats in a Changing World

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Forests are one of the most important habitats for insectivorous bats as they offer the potential for both roosting and foraging. We reviewed silvicultural literature from North America, Australia, and Europe and found that diverse research approaches have revealed commonalities in bat responses to forest silviculture. Almost all silvicultural treatments evaluated were compatible with some use by forest bats, though different bat ensembles respond in different ways. Ensemble ecomorphology was a consistent predictor of how bats respond to vegetative clutter and its dynamic changes as forests regenerate and develop a dense structure following harvesting. Sustaining high levels of bat diversity in timber production forests requires a mix of silvicultural treatments and exclusion areas staggered across the landscape, regardless of forest type or geographic region. Use of edge habitats, exclusion areas/set-asides, and riparian corridors for roosting and foraging by bats were consistent themes in the literature reviewed, and these habitat elements need to be considered in forest planning. Densities of hollow or dead trees sufficient to support large populations of roosting bats are unknown and remain a major knowledge gap, but will likely be species contingent. New paradigm shifts in forest management away from the use of even-aged systems to multi-spatial scale retention of mature forest including trees with cavities should be beneficial to bats, which are influenced by landscape-scale management. Such

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Habitat Use by Bats in Eastern Maine

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Habitat-associated and temporal patterns of bat activity in a diverse forest landscape of southern New England, USA

Habitat-associated and temporal patterns of bat activity in a diverse forest landscape of southern New England, USA

Developing macrohabitat models for bats in parks using maxent and testing them with data collected by citizen scientists

Insectivorous Bats and Silviculture: Balancing Timber Production and Bat Conservation

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