Authors
Adrià López-Baucells, Xavier Puig-Montserrat, Ignasi Torre, Lídia Freixas, Maria Mas, Antoni Arrizabalaga, Carles Flaquer
Publication date
2017/2
Journal
Urban Ecosystems
Volume
20
Issue
1
Pages
217-225
Publisher
Springer US
Description
Impact mitigation practices are currently one of the hottest topics in conservation and regarded as priorities worldwide. Forest bat populations are known to provide important ecosystem services such as pest control and bat boxes have become one of the most popular management options for counteracting the loss of roosts. However, bat boxes tend to be employed in non-native forests near highly humanized areas where human disturbance is higher. The aim of this study was to evaluate how the surrounding landscape composition affects bat box occupancy in urban non-native forests along the Mediterranean corridor in the Northeastern Iberian Peninsula. Two hundred wooden bat boxes were monitored in young non-native forests in the period 2004–2012. The influence of land cover on occupancy rate of bat boxes was analysed at the landscape level in a 5 km buffer around bat-box stations. In total …
Scholar articles
A López-Baucells, X Puig-Montserrat, I Torre, L Freixas… - Urban Ecosystems, 2017