Outputs (63)

An Amazonian rainforest and its fragments as a laboratory of global change (2017)
Journal Article
Laurance, W., Camargo, J., Fearnside, P., Lovejoy, T., Williamson, B., Mesquita, R., …Laurance, S. (2017). An Amazonian rainforest and its fragments as a laboratory of global change. Biological Reviews, 93(1), 223-247. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12343

We synthesize findings from one of the world’s largest and longest-running experimental investigations, the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP). Spanning an area of ~1,000 km2 in central Amazonia, the BDFFP was initially designed... Read More about An Amazonian rainforest and its fragments as a laboratory of global change.

Season-modulated responses of Neotropical bats to forest fragmentation (2017)
Journal Article
Ferreira, D., Rocha, R., Lopez-Baucells, A., Farneda, F., Carreiras, J., Palmeirim, J., & Meyer, C. (2017). Season-modulated responses of Neotropical bats to forest fragmentation. Ecology and Evolution, 7(11), 4059-4071. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3005

Seasonality causes fluctuations in resource availability, affecting the presence and abundance of animal species. The impacts of these oscillations on wildlife populations can be exacerbated by habitat fragmentation. We assessed differences in bat sp... Read More about Season-modulated responses of Neotropical bats to forest fragmentation.

Dispersal and group formation dynamics in a rare and endangered temperate forest bat (Nyctalus lasiopterus, Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) (2016)
Journal Article
Santos, J., Meyer, C., Ibáñez, C., Popa-Lisseanu, A., & Juste, J. (2016). Dispersal and group formation dynamics in a rare and endangered temperate forest bat (Nyctalus lasiopterus, Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Ecology and Evolution, 6(22), 8193-8204. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2330

For elusive mammals like bats, colonization of new areas and colony formation are poorly understood, as is their relationship with the genetic structure of populations. Understanding dispersal and group formation behaviors is critical not only for a... Read More about Dispersal and group formation dynamics in a rare and endangered temperate forest bat (Nyctalus lasiopterus, Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae).

Field guide to Amazonian Bats (2016)
Book
López-Baucells, A., Rocha, R., Bobrowiec, P., Palmeirim, J., & Meyer, C. (2016). Field guide to Amazonian Bats. Manaus, Brazil: National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA)

Consequences of a large-scale fragmentation experiment for Neotropical bats : disentangling the relative importance of local and landscape-scale effects (2016)
Journal Article
Rocha, R., López-Baucells, A., Farneda, F., Groenenberg, M., Bobrowiec, P., Cabeza, M., …Meyer, C. (2017). Consequences of a large-scale fragmentation experiment for Neotropical bats : disentangling the relative importance of local and landscape-scale effects. Landscape Ecology, 32(1), 31-45. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-016-0425-3

Context Habitat loss, fragmentation and degradation are widespread drivers of biodiversity decline. Understanding how habitat quality interacts with landscape context, and how they jointly affect species in human-modified landscapes, is of great im... Read More about Consequences of a large-scale fragmentation experiment for Neotropical bats : disentangling the relative importance of local and landscape-scale effects.

Responses of tropical bats to habitat fragmentation, logging, and deforestation (2015)
Book Chapter
Meyer, C. F., Struebig, M., & Willig, M. (2016). Responses of tropical bats to habitat fragmentation, logging, and deforestation. In C. C. Voigt, & T. Kingston (Eds.), Bats in the Anthropocene: Conservation of Bats in a Changing World (63-103). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25220-9_4

Land-use change is a key driver of the global biodiversity crisis and a particularly serious threat to tropical biodiversity. Throughout the tropics, the staggering pace of deforestation, logging, and conversion of forested habitat to other land uses... Read More about Responses of tropical bats to habitat fragmentation, logging, and deforestation.

Assessing the structure of a Neotropical bat community using acoustic monitoring techniques (2015)
Journal Article
Estrada-Villegas, S., Meyer, C., McGill, B., & Kalko, E. (2015). Assessing the structure of a Neotropical bat community using acoustic monitoring techniques. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 138(3), 1905. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4933991

Determining the structure and composition of tropical communities is challenging because some species are rare or hard to detect. Within Neotropical bats, aerial insectivores have been systematically undersampled because they avoid mist nets, the tra... Read More about Assessing the structure of a Neotropical bat community using acoustic monitoring techniques.

Trait-related responses to habitat fragmentation in Amazonian bats (2015)
Journal Article
Farneda, F., Rocha, R., López-Baucells, A., Groenenberg, M., Silva, I., Palmeirim, J., …Meyer, C. (2015). Trait-related responses to habitat fragmentation in Amazonian bats. Journal of Applied Ecology, 52(5), 1381-1391. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.12490

Summary: Understanding how interspecific variation in functional traits influences species’ capacity to persist in fragments and use patches in fragmented landscapes is fundamental for the creation of effective conservation plans. This study uses... Read More about Trait-related responses to habitat fragmentation in Amazonian bats.

Methodological challenges in monitoring bat population - and assemblage-level changes for anthropogenic impact assessment (2014)
Journal Article
Meyer, C. F. (2014). Methodological challenges in monitoring bat population - and assemblage-level changes for anthropogenic impact assessment. Mammalian Biology, 80(3), 159-169. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mambio.2014.11.002

Recent years have seen increased attention to bats as an effective bioindicator group for assessing responses to drivers of global change, which concurrently has led to a revived interest in establish-ing a global bat monitoring network. To be effect... Read More about Methodological challenges in monitoring bat population - and assemblage-level changes for anthropogenic impact assessment.

Where to nest? Ecological determinants of chimpanzee nest abundance and distribution at the habitat and tree species scale (2014)
Journal Article
Carvalho, J., Meyer, C. F., Vicente, L., & Marques, T. (2015). Where to nest? Ecological determinants of chimpanzee nest abundance and distribution at the habitat and tree species scale. American Journal of Primatology, 77(2), 186-199. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.22321

Conversion of forests to anthropogenic land‐uses increasingly subjects chimpanzee populations to habitat changes and concomitant alterations in the plant resources available to them for nesting and feeding. Based on nest count surveys conducted dur... Read More about Where to nest? Ecological determinants of chimpanzee nest abundance and distribution at the habitat and tree species scale.