Managing riparian buffer strips to optimise ecosystem services: A review

LJ Cole, J Stockan, R Helliwell - Agriculture, ecosystems & environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Riparian buffer strips provide a wide range of ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes
with benefits extending beyond those provided by non-riparian field margins. For example …

Increased bat hunting at polluted streams suggests chemical exposure rather than prey shortage

M Huszarik, AP Roodt, T Wernicke, F Chávez… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Streams and their riparian areas are important habitats and foraging sites for bats feeding on
emergent aquatic insects. Chemical pollutants entering freshwater streams from agricultural …

Artificial light may change flight patterns of bats near bridges along urban waterways

K Barré, K Spoelstra, Y Bas, S Challéat… - Animal …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Artificial light at night (ALAN) is considered as a major threat to biodiversity, especially to
nocturnal species, as it reduces availability, quality and functionality of habitats. However, its …

[HTML][HTML] Lighting up our waterways: Impacts of a current mitigation strategy on riparian bats

J Hooker, P Lintott, E Stone - Environmental Pollution, 2022 - Elsevier
Increasing levels of artificial light at night (ALAN) are a major threat to global biodiversity and
can have negative impacts on a wide variety of organisms and their ecosystems. Nocturnal …

What you hear may not be what you see: Potential of citizen science methods to use bats as riverine forest quality indicators

D López‐Bosch, E Blanch, F Páramo… - River Research and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Mediterranean habitats will be one of the Eurasian ecosystems more strongly affected by
Climate Change, especially their riverine systems. Monitoring these ecosystems, which are …

From virtue to sin: Is the installation of bat boxes an effective conservation measure or a potential pitfall for vulnerable bat species?

C Matus-Olivares, J Carrasco, A Weintraub… - Journal for Nature …, 2025 - Elsevier
Bat boxes are a key element in bat conservation policies being very popular. However, it is a
biased action that is only favourable for a few bat species. In this manuscript, we …

[HTML][HTML] Metabarcoding the night sky: Monitoring landscape-scale insect diversity through bat diet

C Tobisch, S Dege, B Panassiti, J Treffler… - Basic and Applied …, 2025 - Elsevier
Widespread declines of terrestrial insects are reported across habitats and are associated
with drivers at the landscape scale. Current monitoring schemes survey insect communities …

Seasonal variation in home range size of evening bats (Nycticeius humeralis) in an urban environment

EM Hall, VJ Bennett - Journal of Mammalogy, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Despite the negative impacts of urbanization on bats, green spaces in urban environments,
such as parks, cemeteries, and golf courses, have the potential to provide resources …

Climatic gradients and forest composition shape bat communities in Eastern Mediterranean pine plantations

C Allegrini, C Korine, BR Krasnov - Integrative Zoology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Biotic and abiotic factors can act as filters for determining the species composition of
biological communities. We aimed to identify abiotic factors driving the assembly of bat …

In the Spotlight: Bat Activity Shifts in Response to Intense Lighting of a Large Railway Construction Site

F Gili, C Fassone, A Rolando, S Bertolino - Sustainability, 2024 - mdpi.com
Artificial light at night (ALAN) is a major form of anthropogenic pollution, disrupting nocturnal
wildlife behaviour and ecosystem function. Large construction sites are typically located at …