Spatial activity and habitat use of a marginal population of the endangered Mediterranean horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus euryale)

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RIV/00023272:_____/21:10135159 RIV/60460709:41320/21:89730 RIV/00216208:11310/21:10430887

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13364-021-00568-5" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13364-021-00568-5</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13364-021-00568-5" target="_blank" >10.1007/s13364-021-00568-5</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Spatial activity and habitat use of a marginal population of the endangered Mediterranean horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus euryale)

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Populations occupying peripheral areas of a current species range, particularly those located at rearing edges of the distributional ranges, have a high adaptive potential to environmental changes for the species, being of key conservation importance and, simultaneously, are heavily understudied. We provide the first description of the home-range size and foraging habitat preferences of the isolated northern-most population of the Mediterranean horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus euryale) living at the contact zone of the Carpathian Mountains and Pannonian Lowland, located similar to 300 km north of the core species range. The median size of the Minimum Convex Polygons (MCP) for all individuals throughout the study was 1.8 km(2) and was in accordance with data reported for the southern populations from the range-core. The MCP median size varied between the reproductive periods, being the largest (3.3 km(2)) in the pregnancy period, decreased dramatically (0.8 km(2)) during the lactation period and then increased again considerably (7.5 km(2)) in the post-lactation period. The Ecological Niche Modelling revealed the affinity of the bats to forage in a close distance to riverine habitats, but also in villages and forest edges, while they avoided closed forest areas and open habitats. The differences in habitat use in the study area as compared to the core range populations bring an evidence of ecological plasticity of the northern marginal populations of this species and its potential to exploit human-altered habitats, such as village interiors.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Spatial activity and habitat use of a marginal population of the endangered Mediterranean horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus euryale)

Popis výsledku anglicky

Populations occupying peripheral areas of a current species range, particularly those located at rearing edges of the distributional ranges, have a high adaptive potential to environmental changes for the species, being of key conservation importance and, simultaneously, are heavily understudied. We provide the first description of the home-range size and foraging habitat preferences of the isolated northern-most population of the Mediterranean horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus euryale) living at the contact zone of the Carpathian Mountains and Pannonian Lowland, located similar to 300 km north of the core species range. The median size of the Minimum Convex Polygons (MCP) for all individuals throughout the study was 1.8 km(2) and was in accordance with data reported for the southern populations from the range-core. The MCP median size varied between the reproductive periods, being the largest (3.3 km(2)) in the pregnancy period, decreased dramatically (0.8 km(2)) during the lactation period and then increased again considerably (7.5 km(2)) in the post-lactation period. The Ecological Niche Modelling revealed the affinity of the bats to forage in a close distance to riverine habitats, but also in villages and forest edges, while they avoided closed forest areas and open habitats. The differences in habitat use in the study area as compared to the core range populations bring an evidence of ecological plasticity of the northern marginal populations of this species and its potential to exploit human-altered habitats, such as village interiors.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

10618 - Ecology

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

MAMMAL RESEARCH

ISSN

2199-2401

e-ISSN

2199-241X

Svazek periodika

66

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

3

Stát vydavatele periodika

DE - Spolková republika Německo

Počet stran výsledku

10

Strana od-do

499-508

Kód UT WoS článku

000643585700001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85105135081