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dc.contributor.authorMeramo, Katarina
dc.contributor.authorOvaskainen, Otso
dc.contributor.authorBernard, Enrico
dc.contributor.authorSilva, Carina Rodrigues
dc.contributor.authorLaine, Veronika N.
dc.contributor.authorLilley, Thomas M.
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-23T06:59:24Z
dc.date.available2022-02-23T06:59:24Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.citationMeramo, K., Ovaskainen, O., Bernard, E., Silva, C. R., Laine, V. N., & Lilley, T. M. (2022). Contrasting Effects of Chronic Anthropogenic Disturbance on Activity and Species Richness of Insectivorous Bats in Neotropical Dry Forest. <i>Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution</i>, <i>10</i>, Article 822415. <a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.822415" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.822415</a>
dc.identifier.otherCONVID_104335782
dc.identifier.urihttps://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/79896
dc.description.abstractFor prioritizing conservation actions, it is vital to understand how ecologically diverse species respond to environmental change caused by human activity. This is particularly necessary considering that chronic human disturbance is a threat to biodiversity worldwide. Depending on how species tolerate and adapt to such disturbance, ecological integrity and ecosystem services will be more or less affected. Bats are a species-rich and functionally diverse group, with important roles in ecosystems, and are therefore recognized as a good model group for assessing the impact of environmental change. Their populations have decreased in several regions, especially in the tropics, and are threatened by increasing human disturbance. Using passive acoustic monitoring, we assessed how the species-rich aerial insectivorous bats—essential for insect suppression services—respond to chronic human disturbance in the Caatinga dry forests of Brazil, an area potentially harboring ca. 100 bat species (nearly 50% are insectivorous), but with > 60% its area composed of anthropogenic ecosystems under chronic pressure. Acoustic data for bat activity was collected at research sites with varying amounts of chronic human disturbance (e.g., livestock grazing and firewood gathering). The intensity of the disturbance is indicated by the global multi-metric CAD index (GMDI). Using Animal Sound Identifier (ASI) software, we identified 18 different bat taxon units. Using Hierarchical Modeling of Species Communities (HMSC), we found trends in the association of the disturbance gradient with species richness and bat activity: species richness was higher at sites with higher human disturbance, whereas bat activity decreased with increasing human disturbance. Additionally, we observed taxon-specific responses to human disturbance. We conclude that the effects of chronic anthropogenic disturbance on the insectivorous bat fauna in the Caatinga are not homogeneous and a species-specific approach is necessary when assessing the responses of local bats to human disturbances in tropical dry forests, and in other biomes under human pressure.en
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherFrontiers Media SA
dc.relation.ispartofseriesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution
dc.rightsCC BY 4.0
dc.subject.otherhuman disturbance
dc.subject.otherbiodiversity loss
dc.subject.otherChiroptera
dc.subject.otherpassive acoustic monitoring
dc.subject.othertropical dry forests
dc.subject.otherecholocation
dc.subject.otherCaatinga
dc.subject.otherHMSC
dc.titleContrasting Effects of Chronic Anthropogenic Disturbance on Activity and Species Richness of Insectivorous Bats in Neotropical Dry Forest
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi:jyu-202202231631
dc.contributor.laitosBio- ja ympäristötieteiden laitosfi
dc.contributor.laitosDepartment of Biological and Environmental Scienceen
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dc.description.reviewstatuspeerReviewed
dc.relation.issn2296-701X
dc.relation.volume10
dc.type.versionpublishedVersion
dc.rights.copyright© 2022 Meramo, Ovaskainen, Bernard, Silva, Laine and Lilley.
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dc.subject.ysobiodiversiteetti
dc.subject.ysolepakot
dc.subject.ysokaikuluotaus
dc.subject.ysoympäristönmuutokset
dc.subject.ysotrooppinen vyöhyke
dc.subject.ysometsät
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dc.rights.urlhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.relation.doi10.3389/fevo.2022.822415
jyx.fundinginformationKM was funded by Kone Foundation (grant no. 201800877). OO was funded by Academy of Finland (grant no. 309581), Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation, Research Council of Norway through its Centers of Excellence Funding Scheme (223257), and the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement No 856506; ERC-synergy project LIFEPLAN). EB has a research fellowship from CNPq. CS was supported by FACEPE (process IBPG-0756-2.05/17) and financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior—Brasil (CAPES) Finance Code 001. TL was funded by Academy of Finland (grant no 3535133).
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