Different bat guilds perceive their habitat in different ways: a multiscale landscape approach for variable selection in species distribution modelling

• DOI: 10.1007/s10980-015-0237-x
• Publication Date: 2015-07-02T06:42:09Z
• Authors: Laura Ducci; Paolo Agnelli; Mirko Di Febbraro; Ludovico Frate; Danilo Russo; Anna Loy; Maria Laura Carranza; Giacomo Santini; Federica Roscioni
• Keywords: 0106 biological sciences; bats; bat; Biodiversity; Chiroptera; Foraging; Landscape pattern; Moving windows, Spatial scale; Multiscale approach; Nature and Landscape Conservation; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; 15. Life on land; 01 natural sciences; landscape ecology, species distribution modelling, conservation; Chiroptera; Mammalia; Animalia; Chordata

(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Context Unveiling the scale at which organisms respond to habitat features is crucial to understand how they are influenced by anthropogenic environmental changes. We implemented species distribution models (SDMs) based on multiple-scale landscape pattern analysis for four bat species representative of different foraging guilds: Nyctalus leisleri, Rhinolophus hipposideros, Myotis emarginatus and Pipistrellus pipistrellus.