Ignoring seasonal changes in the ecological niche of non-migratory species may lead to biases in potential distribution models: lessons from bats

Primer Autor
Russo, Danilo
Co-autores
Smeraldo, Sonia#Di Febbraro, Mirko#Bosso, Luciano#Flaquer, Carles#Guixe, David#Lison, Fulgencio#Meschede, Angelika#Juste, Javier#Prueger, Julia#Puig-Montserrat, Xavier
Título
Ignoring seasonal changes in the ecological niche of non-migratory species may lead to biases in potential distribution models: lessons from bats
Editorial
SPRINGER
Revista
BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION
Lenguaje
en
Resumen
Phenology is a key feature in the description of species niches to capture seasonality in resource use and climate requirements. Species distribution models (SDMs) are widespread tools to evaluate a species' potential distribution and identify its large-scale habitat preferences. Despite its chief importance, data phenology is often neglected in SDM development. Non-migratory bats of temperate regions are good model species to test the effect of data seasonality on SDM outputs because of their different roosting preferences between hibernation and reproduction. We hypothesized that (1) the output of SDMs developed for six non-migratory European bat species will differ between hibernation and reproduction, (2) models built from datasets encompassing both ecological stages will perform better than seasonal models. We employed a dataset of 470 independent occurrences of bat hibernacula and 400 independent records of nursery roosts of selected species and for each species we developed separate winter, summer and mixed (i.e. generated from both winter and summer occurrences) models. Seasonal and mixed potential ranges differed from each other and the direction of this difference was species-specific. Mixed models outperformed seasonal models in representing species niches. Our work highlights the importance of considering data seasonality in the development of SDMs for bats as well as many other organisms, including non-migratory species, otherwise the analysis will lead to significant biases whose consequences for conservation planning and landscape management may be detrimental.
Tipo de Recurso
Artículo original
doi
10.1007/s10531-018-1545-7
Formato Recurso
pdf
Palabras Claves
Biomod2# Hibernation# IUCN# Reproduction# Species distribution models
Ubicación del archivo
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10531-018-1545-7
Categoría OCDE
Biodiversity Conservation# Ecology# Environmental Sciences
Materias
Biomod2# Hibernación# UICN# Reproducción# Modelos de distribución de especies.
Disciplinas de la OCDE
Conservación de la Biodiversidad
Ecología
Zoología, Ornitología, Entomología y Comportamiento Biológico
Id de Web of Science
WOS:000434373100016
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Ignoring seasonal changes in the ecological niche of non-migratory species may lead to biases in potential distribution models: lessons from bats
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Artículo original
Versión del recurso (Recomendado-único)
version publicada
Editorial
SPRINGER
Revista/Libro
BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION
Categoría WOS
Conservación de la Biodiversidad# Ecología# Ciencias Ambientales
ISSN
0960-3115
Idioma
en
Formato
pdf
Tipo de ruta
hibrida
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restringido
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restringido
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785
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791
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