Extent, configuration and diversity of burned and forested areas predict bat richness in a fire-maintained forest

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dc.contributor.authorBlakey, Rachel V.
dc.contributor.authorWebb, Elisabeth B.
dc.contributor.authorKesler, Dylan C.
dc.contributor.authorSiegel, Rodney B.
dc.contributor.authorCorcoran, Derek
dc.contributor.authorCole, Jerry S.
dc.contributor.authorJohnson, Matthew
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-20T23:52:05Z
dc.date.available2025-01-20T23:52:05Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractContext Fire transforms, fragments and sometimes maintains forests, creating mosaics of burned and unburned patches. Highly mobile animals respond to resources in the landscape at a variety of spatial scales, yet we know little about their landscape-scale relationships with fire. Objectives We aimed to identify drivers of bat richness in a landscape mosaic of forested and burned areas while identifying spatial scales at which bat richness was most strongly related to extent, configuration, and diversity measures of landscape-level habitat. Methods We used multi-species hierarchical occupancy modelling to relate bat richness to landscape variables at 10 spatial scales, based on acoustic data collected in the Sierra Nevada, United States. We also assessed redundancy among landscape variable type (extent, configuration, and diversity) and between focal patch types (forested and burned). Results Bat richness was positively associated with heterogenous landscapes, shown by positive associations with pyrodiversity, extent and mean area of burned patches, burned and forested edge density and patch density and relationships were generally consistent across scales. Extent of forest cover and burned areas were highly correlated, but configuration and diversity of these patch types diverged. Conclusions Bat communities of our study area appear to be largely resilient to wildfire and adapted to more heterogenous forests and shorter-interval fire regimes that likely predominated before the fire suppression era.
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10980-021-01204-y
dc.identifier.eissn1572-9761
dc.identifier.issn0921-2973
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-021-01204-y
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/94882
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000624409200001
dc.issue.numero4
dc.language.isoen
dc.pagina.final1115
dc.pagina.inicio1101
dc.revistaLandscape ecology
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectAcoustic
dc.subjectChiroptera
dc.subjectHierarchical occupancy model
dc.subjectPyrodiversity
dc.subjectWestern united states
dc.subjectWildfire
dc.subject.ods15 Life on Land
dc.subject.ods14 Life Below Water
dc.subject.odspa15 Vida de ecosistemas terrestres
dc.subject.odspa14 Vida submarina
dc.titleExtent, configuration and diversity of burned and forested areas predict bat richness in a fire-maintained forest
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen36
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sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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