The role of forest structure and composition in driving the distribution of bats in Mediterranean regions
dc.contributor.author | Novella-Fernandez, R | |
dc.contributor.author | Juste, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Ibañez, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Nogueras, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Osborne, PE | |
dc.contributor.author | Razgour, O | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-03-04T10:07:34Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-02-25 | |
dc.date.updated | 2022-03-04T09:55:04Z | |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 12, article 3224 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-07229-w | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | NE/M018660/1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/128933 | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0003-3186-0313 (Razgour, Orly) | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Nature Research | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35217783 | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://www.miteco.gob.es/es/biodiversidad/servicios/banco-datos-naturaleza/informacion-dispo nible/ifn3.aspx | en_GB |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2022. Open Access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. Te images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. | en_GB |
dc.title | The role of forest structure and composition in driving the distribution of bats in Mediterranean regions | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2022-03-04T10:07:34Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2045-2322 | |
exeter.article-number | 3224 | |
exeter.place-of-publication | England | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available from Nature Research via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.description | Data availability: Bat location records are available as Supplementary data 1. Forest and environmental data are publicly available to download (https://www.miteco.gob.es/es/biodiversidad/servicios/banco-datos-naturaleza/informacion-dispo nible/ifn3.aspx) | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 2045-2322 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Scientific Reports | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2022-02-15 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2022-02-25 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2022-03-04T10:03:46Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2022-03-04T10:07:52Z | |
refterms.panel | A | en_GB |
refterms.dateFirstOnline | 2022-02-25 |
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