Many wetlands harbour highly diverse biological communities and provide extensive
ecosystem services; however, these important ecological features are being altered …

Wetland areas have decreased by up to 33% globally over the past ten years, threatening
the biodiversity they support and essential ecosystem services they provide. Despite this, the …

Abstract Changes in structure and arrangement of forests may influence the distribution of
bat communities by affecting roosting and foraging habitat. Using Anabat bat detectors, we …

Most previous studies of the use bats make of their foraging areas have been concerned
with general habitat preferences rather than with microhabitats. The present study focuses …

Although labeled as environmentally friendly, wind power can have negative impacts on the
environment, such as habitat destruction or wildlife fatalities. Considering the distribution …

During 2001, we used active acoustical sampling (Anabat II) to survey foraging habitat
relationships of bats on the Savannah River Site (SRS) in the upper Coastal Plain of South …

Context The conversion of natural environments into agricultural land has profound effects
on the composition of the landscape, often resulting in a mosaic of human-altered and …

In the eastern US Coastal Plain and Piedmont region, diverse inland wetlands (riverine,
depressional, wet flats) have been impacted by or converted to agriculture. Farm Bill …

Parks and other protected lands can provide important source habitat and act as valuable
dispersal corridors in urbanizing environments. However, most wetlands within protected …

The development and use of acoustic recording technology, surveys have revealed the
composition, relative levels of activity, and preliminary habitat use of bat communities of …