Use of synanthropic roosts by bats in Europe and North America

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11310/25:10504296

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/mam.12380" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1111/mam.12380</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mam.12380" target="_blank" >10.1111/mam.12380</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Use of synanthropic roosts by bats in Europe and North America

Original language description

Diurnal roosts are vital to bats and growing evidence suggests that bats increasingly exploit synanthropic structures, such as buildings. The use of synanthropic roosts (SRs) has been explained as a consequence of the decreased availability of natural roosts imposed by habitat destruction, although growing evidence suggests that the use of SRs may be beneficial to bats in many ways, including enabling the expansion of distributional ranges. Based on data from Europe and North America, our study aimed to (1) analyse the proportion of use of synanthropic vs. natural roosts, (2) test the hypothesis that bats are forced to use SRs in response to the destruction of natural habitats, (3) analyse latitudinal variation of the proportion of use of SRs and (4) address the highly contrasting pattern in the proportion of use of SRs between the two continents in the light of historical aspects of coexistence between bats and humans. We compiled published data on day roosts obtained by means of radio-telemetry, providing unbiased evidence of the proportion of synanthropic and natural roosts. We compared the obtained patterns between the two continents, analysed the relationship between the proportion of use of SRs, land cover and latitude and analysed historical reconstruction of anthropogenic land use. In Europe (n = 3385 roosts), SRs were used by twice more (26) bat species and were used 17× more frequently than in North America (n = 6795). We found no support for the hypothesis that bats use SRs in response to habitat destruction. The use of SRs increases with latitude in Europe, but not in North America, despite decreasing areas of human-altered habitats. Historical processes related to the length of coexistence between bats and humans on both continents, rather than the current state of nature, may underlie the contrasting patterns observed.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10618 - Ecology

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

MAMMAL REVIEW

ISSN

0305-1838

e-ISSN

0305-1838

Volume of the periodical

55

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

1-13

UT code for WoS article

001332518800001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85206336867