The role of forest structure and composition in driving the distribution of bats in Mediterranean regions.
The role of forest structure and composition in driving the distribution of bats in Mediterranean regions.
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DOI：
10.1038/s41598-022-07229-w
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发表时间：
2022-02-25
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Razgour O
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作者：
Novella-Fernandez R;Juste J;Ibañez C;Nogueras J;Osborne PE;Razgour O
森林是温带环境中重要的原生栖息地。虽然它们的结构和组成有助于塑造当地规模的群落聚集，但它们在推动更大规模物种分布中的作用尚未得到充分研究。我们使用详细的森林清查数据、广泛的发生记录数据集以及与功能方法相结合的物种分布模型，从机械上解开物种-森林依赖过程如何驱动西班牙南部地中海地区九种森林专家蝙蝠的区域规模分布。森林蝙蝠的区域分布模式主要是由森林组成和结构而不是气候驱动的。蝙蝠栖息生态是解释蝙蝠与森林依赖关系强度的一个关键特征。树栖蝙蝠与拥有大树（直径 > 425 毫米）的成熟且异质的森林密切相关。相反，与局部规模的研究表明的相反，我们的结果并不支持与飞行相关的特征（机翼载荷和展弦比）驱动物种分布模式。地中海森林预计将受到气候变化的严重影响。这项研究强调了机械地理清物种与环境关系的效用，并强调在评估森林专家对气候变化的脆弱性时需要考虑物种与森林的依赖关系。
Forests are key native habitats in temperate environments. While their structure and composition contribute to shaping local-scale community assembly, their role in driving larger-scale species distributions is understudied. We used detailed forest inventory data, an extensive dataset of occurrence records, and species distribution models integrated with a functional approach, to disentangle mechanistically how species-forest dependency processes drive the regional-scale distributions of nine forest specialist bats in a Mediterranean region in the south of Spain. The regional distribution patterns of forest bats were driven primarily by forest composition and structure rather than by climate. Bat roosting ecology was a key trait explaining the strength of the bat-forest dependency relationships. Tree roosting bats were strongly associated with mature and heterogeneous forest with large trees (diameters > 425 mm). Conversely, and contrary to what local-scale studies show, our results did not support that flight-related traits (wing loading and aspect ratio) drive species distributional patterns. Mediterranean forests are expected to be severely impacted by climate change. This study highlights the utility of disentangling species-environment relationships mechanistically and stresses the need to account for species-forest dependency relationships when assessing the vulnerability of forest specialists towards climate change.
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影响因子：
3.7
作者：
Amorim F;Carvalho SB;Honrado J;Rebelo H
通讯作者：
Rebelo H
影响因子：
1
作者：
Estok, Peter;Gombkoto, Peter;Cserkesz, Tamas
通讯作者：
Cserkesz, Tamas
影响因子：
3.7
作者：
Carr, Andrew;Weatherall, Andrew;Jones, Gareth
通讯作者：
Jones, Gareth
DOI：
10.1073/pnas.1010070108
发表时间：
2011-01-25
影响因子：
11.1
作者：
Carnicer, Jofre;Coll, Marta;Penuelas, Josep
通讯作者：
Penuelas, Josep
影响因子：
3.7
作者：
Allen, Craig D.;Macalady, Alison K.;Cobb, Neil
通讯作者：
Cobb, Neil