A Strategy for Describing and Monitoring Bat Habitat
| Autor: | Lianne C. Ball |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
| Předmět: |
Ecology
biology business.industry Pallid bat Environmental resource management biology.organism_classification Hibernaculum Geography Habitat destruction Habitat Data quality General Earth and Planetary Sciences Natural resource management business Neighbourhood (mathematics) Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Organism Nature and Landscape Conservation General Environmental Science |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Wildlife Management. 66:1148 |
| ISSN: | 0022-541X |
| DOI: | 10.2307/3802947 |
| Popis: | Bats use more features in the landscape than a hibernaculum or maternity roost, but management plans often are made without more information than this because it is time-consuming and costly to collect. This leads to management based on oversimplified bat ecology with no way of incorporating those knowledge gaps. Ecological neighborhoods are the space used by a single organism or a group of organisms during a time period of interest. I used information about the behavior of pallid bats (Antrozous pallidus) to create an ecological neighborhood for a colony in central Nevada and compared it to a neighborhood created with empirical data collected from the same individuals. I also present a method for ranking the conservation value of neighborhoods that incorporates ecology and differences in data quality. I demonstrated how to use ecological neighborhoods to identify potential conflicts in natural resource management, quantify habitat loss, and monitor cumulative impacts. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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