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Introduction to the Special Section — Bat Habitat Use in Eastern North American Temperate Forests: Site, Stand, and Landscape Effects
Author(s) -
BROOKS ROBERT T.,
FORD W. MARK
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
the journal of wildlife management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.94
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1937-2817
pISSN - 0022-541X
DOI - 10.2193/0022-541x(2006)70[1171:ittssh]2.0.co;2
Subject(s) - habitat , foraging , geography , temperate rainforest , ecology , section (typography) , temperate climate , biology , ecosystem , advertising , business
Forest bats of eastern North America select habitats for roosting, foraging, and winter hibernation/migration over a myriad of scales. An understanding of forest‐bat habitat use over scales of time and space is important for their conservation and management. The papers in this Special Section report studies of bat habitat use across multiple scales from locations across the eastern forests of North America. The consensus of the studies in the Special Section is that the larger portion of the variability in bat habitat use occurs at the smaller scales of sites (roost trees) and stands (foraging areas). Nevertheless, it was also recognized that these features occur discontinuously across larger‐scale watersheds and landscapes.