Bats actively track and prey on grape pest populations

Bats actively track and prey on grape pest populations

There is growing evidence about the role of insectivorous bats against agricultural pests in various crops. Nevertheless, little research addressed the aggregational and functional responses of bat assemblages to changes in pest availability across a spatio-temporal scale. Therefore, we examined the...

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Main Authors: Aihartza, J. (Author), Baroja, U. (Author), Garin, I. (Author), Goiti, U. (Author), Rebelo, H. (Author), Vallejo, N. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier B.V. 2021
Subjects:
abundance
Aggregational response
Agricultural pests
Agriculture
agroecology
bat
Bat
Bats
crop pest
Dispersion (waves)
Dispersions
Ecosystem services
Ecosystems
Foraging guild
Foraging guilds
Functional response
Grape pest
Grape pests
growing season
Iberian Peninsula
Lobesia botrana
moth
open space
pest control
Pest population
relative abundance
Relative abundance
Spatio-temporal scale
Tortrix
vineyard
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