期刊
LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY
卷 31, 期 2, 页码 291-300出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-015-0242-0
关键词
Bat communities; Chiroptera; Complementation; Mixed forests; Mosaic landscapes; South-western France
资金
- Aarhus University Research Foundation
- Aquitaine Regional Council
- FunDivEurope project, European Union Seventh Framework Programme [265171]
Context In heterogeneous landscapes, habitat complementation is a key process underlying the distribution of mobile species able to exploit non-substitutable resources over large home ranges. For instance, insectivorous bats need to forage in a diversity of habitat patches offering varied compositions and structures within forest landscape mosaics to fulfill their life cycle requirements. Objectives We aimed at analyzing the effects of forest structure and composition measured at the stand and landscape scales on bat species richness, abundance and community composition in pine plantation forests of south-western France. Methods We sampled bat communities at different periods of the summer season using automatic ultrasound recorders along a tree composition gradient from pine monocultures to pure oak stands. We analyzed bat species activity (as a proxy for bat abundance) and species richness with linear mixed models. Distance based constrained ordinations were used to partition the spatio-temporal variation in bat communities. Results Deciduous tree cover increased bat activity and modified community composition at both stand and landscape scales. Changes in bat communities were mostly driven by landscape-scale variables while bat activity responded more to stand-scale predictors. Conclusions The maintenance of deciduous trees at both stand and landscape scales is likely critical for bat communities living in fast-growing conifer plantations, by increasing the availability and diversity of prey and roosting sites. Our study suggests that bats respond to forest composition at both stand and landscape scales in mosaic plantation landscapes, mainly through a resource complementation process.
作者
我是这篇论文的作者
点击您的名字以认领此论文并将其添加到您的个人资料中。
推荐
暂无数据