DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2013.06.043
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84880635140
论文题名: From ground to above canopy-Bat activity in mature forests is driven by vegetation density and height
作者: Müller J. ; Brandl R. ; Buchner J. ; Pretzsch H. ; Seifert S. ; Strätz C. ; Veith M. ; Fenton B.
刊名: Forest Ecology and Management
ISSN: 0378-1127
出版年: 2013
卷: 306 起始页码: 179
结束页码: 184
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Bat fatalities
; Batcorder
; Foraging guilds
; Terrestrial laser scanning
; Wind farms
Scopus关键词: Bat fatalities
; Batcorder
; Foraging guilds
; Terrestrial laser scanning
; Wind farm
; Ecosystems
; Electric utilities
; Risk assessment
; Steel beams and girders
; Vegetation
; Wind power
; Wind turbines
; Forestry
; activity pattern
; bat
; forest canopy
; forest management
; guild
; habitat quality
; height determination
; logging (timber)
; mortality
; nature-society relations
; risk assessment
; vegetation cover
; wind farm
; wind turbine
; Ecosystems
; Forest Management
; Insects
; Logging
; Plants
; Risk Assessment
; Stratification
; Turbines
; Europe
英文摘要: For several decades, forest managers have considered the effects of logging on the habitat quality of forests for bats. Concern about bat activity above the canopy has now been raised owing to rapidly increasing demands for wind energy and the ensuing placement of wind turbines over forests. We investigated the little-explored vertical stratification of bat activity in forests at ten sites on ten nights using five simultaneous bat-call recorders placed from near ground up to above the canopy. The vegetation-free space at each recorder position was measured with terrestrial laser scanning. We predicted that (1) the activity of Pipistrellus, nyctaloids and the open-habitat foraging guild will increase in mature forests with increasing height above ground, independent of local vegetation density and temperature, and (2) the activity of Myotis and the edge-habitat-foraging guild will decrease with height but increase with local low vegetation density. Our generalized linear mixed model indicated that nyctaloids, Pipistrellus and open-habitat foragers were increasingly active in higher strata, independent of temperature and local vegetation density. Activity of Myotis and Pipistrellus species and the edge-habitat foragers was higher along interior edges of forests. The activity of single species in the above-canopy stratum could be explained well by their Europe-wide wind-turbine risk assessment. Thus, we conclude that open-habitat bat species and Pipistrellus species not only forage regularly in clearings or forest meadows, but also above the canopy of closed mature stands, behaviour that may put them at risk from turbines. © 2013 Elsevier B.V. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/66416
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作者单位: Bavarian Forest National Park, Freyunger Str. 2, 94481 Grafenau, Germany; Technische Universität München Freising, Germany; Department of Ecology, Faculty of Biology, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany; Department of Biogeography, Trier University, Germany; Forest Growth and Yield Science, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany; Büro für ökologische Studien, Bayreuth, Germany; Department of Biology, Western University, London, ON, Canada
Recommended Citation:
Müller J.,Brandl R.,Buchner J.,et al. From ground to above canopy-Bat activity in mature forests is driven by vegetation density and height[J]. Forest Ecology and Management,2013-01-01,306