Use of Artificial Roost Boxes Installed as Alternative Habitat for Bats Evicted from Buildings

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 201
Author(s):  
Michelle Arias ◽  
Sarah Gignoux-Wolfsohn ◽  
Kathleen Kerwin ◽  
Brooke Maslo
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Habitat ◽  
Artificial Roost

scholarly journals The role of habitat configuration in shaping animal population processes: a framework to generate quantitative predictions

Oecologia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng He ◽  
Pierre-Olivier Montiglio ◽  
Marius Somveille ◽  
Mauricio Cantor ◽  
Damien R. Farine
Keyword(s):  
Population Level ◽  
R Package ◽  
Habitat Configuration ◽  
Modelling Framework ◽  
Alternative Habitat ◽  
Animal Populations ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Habitat Networks ◽  
Animal Habitat

AbstractBy shaping where individuals move, habitat configuration can fundamentally structure animal populations. Yet, we currently lack a framework for generating quantitative predictions about the role of habitat configuration in modulating population outcomes. To address this gap, we propose a modelling framework inspired by studies using networks to characterize habitat connectivity. We first define animal habitat networks, explain how they can integrate information about the different configurational features of animal habitats, and highlight the need for a bottom–up generative model that can depict realistic variations in habitat potential connectivity. Second, we describe a model for simulating animal habitat networks (available in the R package AnimalHabitatNetwork), and demonstrate its ability to generate alternative habitat configurations based on empirical data, which forms the basis for exploring the consequences of alternative habitat structures. Finally, we lay out three key research questions and demonstrate how our framework can address them. By simulating the spread of a pathogen within a population, we show how transmission properties can be impacted by both local potential connectivity and landscape-level characteristics of habitats. Our study highlights the importance of considering the underlying habitat configuration in studies linking social structure with population-level outcomes.

scholarly journals In artificial roost comparison, bats show preference for rocket box style

PLoS ONE ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. e0205701 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia P. S. Hoeh ◽  
George S. Bakken ◽  
William A. Mitchell ◽  
Joy M. O’Keefe
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Roost

scholarly journals Robustness of a meta‐network to alternative habitat loss scenarios

Oikos ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 130 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-142
Author(s):  
Micaela Santos ◽  
Luciano Cagnolo ◽  
Tomas Roslin ◽  
Emmanuel F. Ruperto ◽  
María Laura Bernaschini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Habitat Loss ◽  
Alternative Habitat

Reproductive performance of the African migratory locust, Locusta migratoria migratorioides (Orthoptera: Acrididae), in a cereal crop environment in South Africa

1990 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 465-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.E. Price ◽  
H.D. Brown
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Clutch Size ◽  
Reproductive Performance ◽  
Locusta Migratoria ◽  
Reproductive Potential ◽  
Cereal Crop ◽  
Migratory Locust ◽  
Locusta Migratoria Migratorioides ◽  
Alternative Habitat ◽  
Crop Environment

AbstractThe reproductive performance of the African migratory locust, Locusta migratoria migratorioides (Reiche & Fairmaire), was assessed in a cereal crop environment on the temperate Highveld of South Africa. Of the two principal crops involved on the Highveld, maize realized the highest reproductive potential during summer, wheat was successfully utilized for breeding in spring. The combined effects of food and temperature were the main factors influencing seasonal variation in clutch size. Green food was essential for continued reproduction, oviposition ceased for three to four months during winter when food resources deteriorated and was resumed in spring. Although locust size was shown to decrease significantly in early winter, this did not influence fecundity. The effects of egg resorption, female age and phase on clutch size are outlined. Despite the more adverse climate of the Highveld, the migratory locust realized higher individual natality in the cereal crop environment than that recorded previously and consequently achieved outstanding reproductive success in this alternative habitat.

scholarly journals Aplikasi Penderiaan Jauh atau Remote Sensing dalam Pemodelan Pengaruh Iklim terhadap Taburan Burung Hijrah Di Hutan Paya Laut Matang, Perak

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Azimah Abd Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Habitat Selection ◽  
Mangrove Forest ◽  
Migratory Birds ◽  
Climate Modeling ◽  
Migratory Bird ◽  
Bird Populations ◽  
Alternative Habitat ◽  
The Future ◽  
Selection Of

Climate changes especially temperature and rainfall effect the habitat selection of bird migration in mangrove area to get some food and temporary stopover. The increase and decrease of temperature and rainfall is varies between upstream to downstream. This research was done to prove that temperature and rainfall are uneven in some area even in same boundary that can give impact in habitat selection of migratory birds. This research was concern around Matang Mangrove Forest, Perak that already familiar as focal area for migratory birds. Remote Sensing application was used in this research through use of ERDAS Imagine 8.5 which is based on pixels. This application helps to model the relationship between climate, namely temperature and rainfall with distribution density of migratory birds around the study area. Climate modeling was conducted to predict the distribution of migratory bird populations in the future due to changes in temperature and rainfall over a period of 5 years and 20 years. The results of this study showed a decrease in the population of migratory birds by 6.4% for a period of 5 years and a decrease to 7.5% for the last 20 years.  Sungai Sepetang and Sungai Selinsing shown that migratory bird populations decreased continuously after 20 years. However the Sangga Besar, Teluk Kertang, Temerlok, Pulau Pasir Hitam dan Sungai Tinggi area showed an increase in the arrival of migratory birds after 20 years.  This information analysis help the related agencies in manage and maintain the area around the Matang Mangrove Forest identified potential habitat for migratory birds in the future. In addition, through this study migratory bird monitoring can be carried out systematically on a wider scope without ignoring areas that strives to be the alternative habitat for migratory birds in the future.

scholarly journals Asymmetric habitat isolation and sexual isolation predicted by the cost of migration and hybridization generate novel signatures of reinforcing selection

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linyi Zhang ◽  
Glen Ray Hood ◽  
Jim R Ott ◽  
Scott P Egan
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
Sexual Isolation ◽  
Sympatric Species ◽  
Habitat Isolation ◽  
Quercus Virginiana ◽  
Alternative Habitat ◽  
Allopatric Species ◽  
Gall Wasps ◽  
The Cost

Reinforcement is an evolutionary process whereby increased prezygotic reproductive isolation evolves in response to the cost of hybridization. Despite theory predicting that multiple prezygotic barriers can evolve via reinforcement, most empirical studies examine a single barrier. We test novel predictions for the reinforcement of both habitat isolation and sexual isolation between ecologically divergent lineages under asymmetric migration: the lineage that emigrates more should evolve stronger habitat isolation due to the lower fitness of immigrants in the alternative habitat, while the lineage that receives more immigrants should exhibit stronger sexual isolation due to the lower fitness of hybrids. We found both signatures of reinforcement in two sympatric sister species of gall wasps that are host specific to the southern live oaks, Quercus virginiana and Q. geminata, respectively. Specifically, we observed stronger habitat isolation in the species with higher emigration rates, Belonocnema treatae, and stronger sexual isolation in the species facing more immigrants, B. fossoria. In contrast, comparisons of both species to a third, allopatric, species showed that B. kinseyi exhibited both lower habitat isolation and sexual isolation than the sympatric species, consistent with the classic predictions of reinforcement. Our study provides a rare examination of the interplay of ecology and geography in the evolution of multiple reproductive barriers to gene flow. Given that asymmetric migration between ecologically divergent lineages increasingly appears to be the rule rather than the exception, concomitant asymmetries in the strength of habitat and sexual isolation could be more widespread than currently understood.

Reproductive traits of a nonindigenous amphipod associated with alternative habitat structures in presence of an invasive ecosystem-engineering polychaete

Hydrobiologia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Cielo Bazterrica ◽  
Agustina Méndez Casariego ◽  
Graciela Álvarez ◽  
Sandra Obenat ◽  
Pedro J. Barón
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Traits ◽  
Ecosystem Engineering ◽  
Alternative Habitat
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