Landscape and scale-dependent spatial niches of bats foraging above intensively used arable fields

Abstract Introduction Bats are threatened by agricultural intensification, and although bat ecology in agricultural landscapes is in the focus of current research, the effects of interacting spatiotemporal factors on species-specific bat activity above farmland remain understudied. Our aim was to id...

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Main Authors: Olga Heim, Lukas Lorenz, Stephanie Kramer-Schadt, Kirsten Jung, Christian C. Voigt, Jana A. Eccard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-07-01
Series:Ecological Processes
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13717-017-0091-7