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Journal article
Effects of clear-fell harvest on bat home range
PLoS One, Vol.9(1), pp.1-7
2014
PMCID: PMC3899175
PMID: 24465938
Abstract
We investigated effects of roost loss due to clear-fell harvest on bat home range. The study took place in plantation forest, inhabited by the New Zealand long-tailed bat (Chalinolobus tuberculatus), in which trees are harvested between the ages 26-32 years. We determined home ranges by radiotracking different bats in areas that had and had not been recently clear-fell harvested. Home ranges were smaller in areas that had been harvested. Adult male bats selected 20-25 year old stands within home ranges before and after harvest. Males selected edges with open unplanted areas when harvest had not occurred but no longer selected these at proportions greater than their availability post harvest, probably because they were then readily available. This is the first radiotracking study to demonstrate a change in home range size and selection concomitant with felling of large areas of plantation forest, and thus quantify negative effects of forestry operations on this speciose group. The use of smaller home ranges post-harvest may reflect smaller colony sizes and lower roost availability, both of which may increase isolation of colonies and vulnerability to local extinction.
Details
- Title
- Effects of clear-fell harvest on bat home range
- Authors
- Kerry M Borkin (Author) - University of AucklandStuart Parsons (Author) - University of Auckland
- Publication details
- PLoS One, Vol.9(1), pp.1-7
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science
- Date published
- 2014
- DOI
- 10.1371/journal.pone.0086163
- ISSN
- 1932-6203
- PMID
- 24465938; PMC3899175
- Copyright note
- Copyright: 2014 Borkin, Parsons. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Science, Technology and Engineering
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99575105402621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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