Bat activity and species richness on organic and conventional farms: impact of agricultural intensification

By Liat P. Wickramasinghe, S. Harris, Gareth J. F. Jones, N. Vaughan. 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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Movements and Resource Selection of the Northern Long-eared Myotis (Myotis septentrionalis) in a Forest–Agriculture Landscape (2008, background): “…landscapes for bats is stressed by studies that document higher activity and captures of bats in woodlands or along wooded linear features (Bernard and Fenton 2003; Bianconi et al. 2006; Bontadina et al. 2002; Russ and Montgomery 2002; Walsh and Harris 1996; Wickramasinghe et al. 2003).”
Influence of vegetation clutter on the capacity of ground foraging bats to capture prey (2010, background): “There is growing evidence that changes in the management of farmland are causing strong declines in many of these species (Vickery et al. 2001; Wickramasinghe et al. 2003).”
Abundance and Species Richness of Nocturnal Insects on Organic and Conventional Farms: Effects of Agricultural Intensification on Bat Foraging (2004, methodology): “We grouped insect families by order to investigate the relationship between the activity of the bat groups, determined by the number of bat passes (Wickramasinghe et al. 2003), and the abundance of their main food groups.”
The value of bat-boxes in the conservation of Pipistrellus pygmaeus in wetland rice paddies (2006, background): “Insects are basic prey for European bat species and wetland habitats are especially suitable for foraging bats (rivers, lakes, etc., Vaughan et al., 1996, 1997; Russo and Jones, 2003; Wickramasinghe et al., 2003), possibly because of the higher insect densities found there (Vaughan et al., 1997).”
Striking a new balance between agricultural production and biodiversity (2005, background): “…systems harbour greater levels of noncrop species than comparable non-organic systems, with greater numbers and/or diversity of bats and their prey (Wickramasinghe et al., 2003), birds (Chamberlain et al., 1999), butterfl ies (Feber et al., 1997), weeds (Moreby et al., 1994; Hyvonen et al., 2003)…”
Carpe noctem: the importance of bats as bioindicators (2009, methodology): “Bats are excellent indicator taxa and thus have been used as ecological indicators of habitat quality (Wickramasinghe et al. 2003, Kalcounis-Rueppell et al. 2007).”
Sampling period, size and duration influence measures of bat species richness from acoustic surveys (2012, methodology): “…detection of bats have been used to document activity patterns (Hayes 1997; Tibbels & Kurta 2003), resource use (Vaughan, Jones & Harris 1997; Williams, O’Farrell & Riddle 2006; Zukal & Rehak 2006), species rich- ness (Wickramasinghe et al. 2003) and species distribution (Jaberg & Guisan 2001).”
Effects of wastewater treatment plant effluent on bat foraging ecology in an urban stream system. (2007, background): “Although specific details about water sources and inputs are not given in Wickramasinghe et al. (2003, 2004), these results suggest that conventional agrochemical inputs to water sources may affect bats and their insect prey.”
Has Danish agriculture maintained farmland bird populations (2004, background): “In contrast, organic agriculture has positive effects on species activity, abundance and species richness amongst many invertebrates and vertebrates (Wilson et al. 1997; Krebs et al. 1999; Beecher et al. 2002; Wickramasinghe et al. 2003).”
Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of its drivers (2019, background): “(Lister and Garcia, 2018) inevitably lead to a starvation of dependent vertebrates (Hallmann et al., 2014; Lister and Garcia, 2018; Poulin et al., 2010; Wickramasinghe et al., 2003).”