Rainforest bat conservation: Onique problems in a unique environment

Richards, G. C.

doi:10.7882/az.1990.106

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“…Similarly, the quick response of bats to newly-created environments ) can be utilized to either assess the adequacy of reserves for most faunal groups, or to gauge the value of regrowth areas. Also, from and Richards (1990c), rainforest bat faunas comprise a suite of species different to that in open forest. With the rapid sampling via electronics that is becoming available today, wildlife managers should be able to census the species composition of closed forests to assess the level of mixing of the rainforest and open forest communities.…”

Section: Bats As Indicator Speciesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conservation of Australia’s Forest Fauna

1991

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The Sooty Owl Tyto tenebricosa. A recent survey by Milledge, Palmer and Melson in Victoria's Central Highlands has established that this large, sedentary barn owl, shown here carrying a bush rat Rattus fuscipes, is strongly associated with extensive areas of old-growth wet sclerophyll forest (see Chapter by Milledge et al. entitled "Barometers of Change"). The Myrtle Beech Nothofagus cunninghamii, shown in the background, is a typical gully tree in the tall wet Mountain Ash forests in the Victorian Central Highlands. Like the Spotted Owl Strix occidentalis, its controversial ecological counterpart in North America, the Sooty Owl is threatened by habitat fragmentation and modification resulting from intensive logging. It has been suggested that the Sooty Owl could serve, like the Spotted Owl, as an indicator of habitat quality for other old-growth dependent vertebrates in the forest management process. The circles on the map represent the sites surveyed, and the solid circles are sites where Sooty Owls were recorded.

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Section: Bats As Indicator Speciesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conservation of Australia’s Forest Fauna

1991

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“…Apesar da importância ecológica e econômica, as comunidades de morcegos tiveram as suas populações reduzidas devido ao uso de pesticidas, desmatamento e fragmentação do habitat (Reis, 1982;Reis et al, 2013), o que torna urgente estudos de sua ecologia que forneçam subsídios para planos de ações para a conservação do grupo (Richards, 1990).…”

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Estratificação vertical de quirópteros na floresta Atlântica, reserva biológica Alto da Serra de Paranapiacaba - Santo André, SP / Vertical stratification of bats in the atlantic forest, Alto da Serra de Paranapiacaba biological reserve - Santo André, SP

Paste¹,

Rocha²

2021

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Por serem ativamente inseridos na dinâmica das florestas, os morcegos desempenham uma gama de serviços ecossistêmicos o que torna o grupo chave para interesses ecológicos, agrícolas e econômicos. Devido à estrutura de uma floresta influenciar sobre a distribuição vertical de recursos, a estrutura de uma comunidade de morcegos varia dentro da estrutura vertical da floresta e são poucos os estudos que exploram mais de um estrato florestal, assim o conhecimento existente sobre a ecologia de morcegos, sobretudo na floresta Atlântica, passa a ser subestimado. É neste contexto que o objetivo deste trabalho é caracterizar a estrutura da comunidade de morcegos no uso do espaço vertical na Reserva Biológica Alto da Serra de Paranapiacaba. Através da captura de morcegos por redes de neblina instaladas no sub-bosque (3m), sub-dossel (4-7m) e dossel (8-12m), analisamos a frequência de captura das espécies em cada estrato vertical e relacionamos a frequência de capturas nos diferentes estratos de cada guilda trófica registrada com variáveis bióticas (peso e envergadura de asa) e abióticas (umidade e temperatura). Para os 117 indivíduos das 14 espécies capturadas, os resultados apontam que a comunidade de morcegos da região é regulada pela estrutura vertical, com a espécie Carollia perspicillata preferindo exclusivamente o sub-bosque. Também o uso de estratos superiores está associado com o tamanho corpóreo para os morcegos frugívoros e a temperatura do ambiente para morcegos insetívoros. Este trabalho ressalta a necessidade da exploração dos estratos superiores em inventários e programas de monitoramento de fauna.

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“…State legislation, in contrast, had taken a much less exclusive and more local approach (Lunney et al 2000) which allowed far more issues to be examined and acknowledged that local scarcity was important. The question of the best approach to conserving bats has been the subject of concern and discussion among bat biologists for decades, and was expressed in a number of reviews (Lunney 1989;Lunney et al 1996Lunney et al , 2003, and publications by a number of Australia's experienced bat biologists (Hall 1990;Woodside 1990;Richards 1990;Richards and Hall 1996;Law 1996). A number of themes can be discerned from these publications, and high among them is the need for research and, perhaps because it is a readily identifiable threat, the need to protect roosts, be they caves or tree hollows.…”

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The Priorities Action Statement (PAS) for the threatened bats of New South Wales

Lunney¹,

Parnaby²,

Pennay³

et al. 2011

The Biology and Conservation of Australasian Bats

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The conservation of NSW bat species is examined within the framework of the procedure for threatened species recovery, Priorities Action Statements (PAS), introduced in 2005 by the NSW government to replace the previous requirement to prepare recovery plans. One of the merits of the PAS initiative is that it has produced a single statement of the parlous position of bats in NSW, the actions needed to reverse the threats, and a statement of where the priorities lie for action. To assist with that aim, this paper has recorded all 361 actions for the 20 bat species listed as threatened, as well as analyses and comments on that dataset. The PAS process, and the 361 individual recovery actions that comprise the PAS for bats, are described and discussed within the context of current knowledge, so that bat biologists, managers and policy makers can see the scale and emphases of the recovery process for bats. Research and habitat management are the dominant themes in recovery actions for bats. Research actions comprise 163 (45%) of the 361 actions, and the 89 habitat management actions comprise 25% of all bat recovery actions. The primary message from the PAS process is that it has been possible to arrive at a set of actions to provide a basis for management, both at a funding level and a field level, for which research is an integral part. The PAS for bats represents the first official DECCW statement of recovery actions required for all bat species listed as threatened. It provides an indication of the scale and magnitude of threats confronting the bat fauna of NSW. Their future will depend upon the extent to which the PAS for bats is acknowledged, acted upon, and the time and resources given to bat biologists to implement identified recovery actions.

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Rainforest bat conservation: Onique problems in a unique environment

Cited by 8 publications

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Conservation of Australia’s Forest Fauna

Conservation of Australia’s Forest Fauna

Estratificação vertical de quirópteros na floresta Atlântica, reserva biológica Alto da Serra de Paranapiacaba - Santo André, SP / Vertical stratification of bats in the atlantic forest, Alto da Serra de Paranapiacaba biological reserve - Santo André, SP

The Priorities Action Statement (PAS) for the threatened bats of New South Wales

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