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| العنوان: |
The role of forest structure and composition in driving the distribution of bats in Mediterranean regions. |
| المؤلفون: |
Novella-Fernandez, Roberto1,2 (AUTHOR) r.novella@tum.de, Juste, Javier3,4 (AUTHOR), Ibañez, Carlos3 (AUTHOR), Nogueras, Jesús3 (AUTHOR), Osborne, Patrick E.5 (AUTHOR), Razgour, Orly1,6 (AUTHOR) |
| المصدر: |
Scientific Reports. 10/22/2022, Vol. 12 Issue 1, p1-11. 11p. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
*BAT ecology, *BATS, *SPECIES distribution, *FOREST surveys, *CLIMATE change, *HABITATS |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
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| مستخلص: |
Forests are key native habitats in temperate environments. While their structure and composition contribute to shaping local-scale community assembly, their role in driving larger-scale species distributions is understudied. We used detailed forest inventory data, an extensive dataset of occurrence records, and species distribution models integrated with a functional approach, to disentangle mechanistically how species-forest dependency processes drive the regional-scale distributions of nine forest specialist bats in a Mediterranean region in the south of Spain. The regional distribution patterns of forest bats were driven primarily by forest composition and structure rather than by climate. Bat roosting ecology was a key trait explaining the strength of the bat-forest dependency relationships. Tree roosting bats were strongly associated with mature and heterogeneous forest with large trees (diameters > 425 mm). Conversely, and contrary to what local-scale studies show, our results did not support that flight-related traits (wing loading and aspect ratio) drive species distributional patterns. Mediterranean forests are expected to be severely impacted by climate change. This study highlights the utility of disentangling species-environment relationships mechanistically and stresses the need to account for species-forest dependency relationships when assessing the vulnerability of forest specialists towards climate change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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