All Outputs (62)

Effects of land‐use change on functional and taxonomic diversity of Neotropical bats (2019)
Journal Article
Farneda, F., Meyer, C., & Grelle, C. (2019). Effects of land‐use change on functional and taxonomic diversity of Neotropical bats. Biotropica, 52(1), 120-128. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.12736

Human land-use changes are particularly extensive in tropical regions, representing one of the greatest threats to terrestrial biodiversity and a key research topic in conservation. However, studies considering the effects of different types of anthr... Read More about Effects of land‐use change on functional and taxonomic diversity of Neotropical bats.

Erosion of phylogenetic diversity in Neotropical bat assemblages : findings from a whole-ecosystem fragmentation experiment (2019)
Journal Article
Aninta, S., Rocha, R., López-Baucells, A., & Meyer, C. (2019). Erosion of phylogenetic diversity in Neotropical bat assemblages : findings from a whole-ecosystem fragmentation experiment. Biodiversity and Conservation, 28(14), 4047-4063. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-019-01864-y

The traditional focus on taxonomic diversity metrics for investigating species responses to habitat loss and fragmentation has limited our understanding of how biodiversity is impacted by habitat modification. This is particularly true for taxonomic... Read More about Erosion of phylogenetic diversity in Neotropical bat assemblages : findings from a whole-ecosystem fragmentation experiment.

Echolocation and stratum preference : key trait correlates of vulnerability of insectivorous bats to tropical forest fragmentation (2019)
Journal Article
Núñez, S., López-Baucells, A., Rocha, R., Farneda, F., Bobrowiec, P., Palmeirim, J., & Meyer, C. (2019). Echolocation and stratum preference : key trait correlates of vulnerability of insectivorous bats to tropical forest fragmentation. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7, 373. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2019.00373

Habitat loss and fragmentation rank high amongst the most pressing threats to biodiversity. Understanding how variation in functional traits is associated with species vulnerability in fragmented landscapes is central to the design of effective conse... Read More about Echolocation and stratum preference : key trait correlates of vulnerability of insectivorous bats to tropical forest fragmentation.

Predicting biodiversity loss in island and countryside ecosystems through the lens of taxonomic and functional biogeography (2019)
Journal Article
Farneda, F., Grelle, C., Rocha, R., Ferreira, D., López-Baucells, A., & Meyer, C. (2020). Predicting biodiversity loss in island and countryside ecosystems through the lens of taxonomic and functional biogeography. Ecography, 43(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.04507

We investigate how variation in patch area and forest cover quantified for three different spatial scales (buffer size of 500, 1500 and 3000 m radius) affects species richness and functional diversity of bat assemblages in two ecosystems differing in... Read More about Predicting biodiversity loss in island and countryside ecosystems through the lens of taxonomic and functional biogeography.

Second-growth and small forest clearings have little effect on the temporal activity patterns of Amazonian phyllostomid bats (2019)
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Rocha, R., López-Baucells, A., Farneda, F., Ferreira, D., Silva, I., Acácio, M., …Meyer, C. (2020). Second-growth and small forest clearings have little effect on the temporal activity patterns of Amazonian phyllostomid bats. Current Zoology, 66(2), 145-153. https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoz042

Secondary forests and human-made forest gaps are conspicuous features of tropical landscapes. Yet, behavioural responses to these aspects of anthropogenically-modified forests remain poorly investigated. Here, we analyse th... Read More about Second-growth and small forest clearings have little effect on the temporal activity patterns of Amazonian phyllostomid bats.

FragSAD : a database of diversity and species abundance distributions from habitat fragments (2019)
Journal Article
Chase, J., Liebergesell, M., Sagouis, A., May, F., Blowes, S., Berg, A., …Ziv, Y. (2019). FragSAD : a database of diversity and species abundance distributions from habitat fragments. Ecology, 100(12), e02861. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2861

Habitat destruction is the single greatest anthropogenic threat to biodiversity. Decades of research on this issue have led to the accumulation of hundreds of data sets comparing species assemblages in larger, intact, habitats to smaller, more fragme... Read More about FragSAD : a database of diversity and species abundance distributions from habitat fragments.

A global risk assessment of primates under climate and land use/cover scenarios (2019)
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Carvalho, J., Graham, B., Rebelo, H., Bocksberger, G., Meyer, C., Wich, S., & Kühl, H. (2019). A global risk assessment of primates under climate and land use/cover scenarios. Global Change Biology, 25(9), 3163-3178. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14671

Primates are facing an impending extinction crisis, driven by extensive habitat loss, land use change, and hunting. Climate change is an additional threat, which alone or in combination with other drivers, may severely impact those taxa unable to tra... Read More about A global risk assessment of primates under climate and land use/cover scenarios.

Bats and the city : urban bat biodiversity in a tropical biome transition zone (2019)
Thesis
Syme, P. Bats and the city : urban bat biodiversity in a tropical biome transition zone. (Dissertation). University of Salford

Urbanisation is an important factor in global land-use change which dramatically alters habitats at great detriment to wildlife. Our understanding of urban biodiversity patterns and their driving factors in tropical cities which interact with high le... Read More about Bats and the city : urban bat biodiversity in a tropical biome transition zone.

Stronger together : combining automated classifiers with manual post-validation optimizes the workload vs reliability trade-off of species identification in bat acoustic surveys (2018)
Journal Article
López-Baucells, A., Torrent, L., Rocha, R., Bobrowiec, P., Palmeirim, J., & Meyer, C. (2018). Stronger together : combining automated classifiers with manual post-validation optimizes the workload vs reliability trade-off of species identification in bat acoustic surveys. Ecological Informatics, 49(Jan 19), 45-53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2018.11.004

Owing to major technological advances, bioacoustics has become a burgeoning field in ecological research worldwide. Autonomous passive acoustic recorders are becoming widely used to monitor aerial insectivorous bats, and automatic classifiers have... Read More about Stronger together : combining automated classifiers with manual post-validation optimizes the workload vs reliability trade-off of species identification in bat acoustic surveys.

Grazing improves habitat suitability for many ground foraging birds in Mediterranean wooded grasslands (2018)
Journal Article
birds in Mediterranean wooded grasslands. Agriculture, ecosystems & environment, 270-1, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2018.10.012

Wooded grasslands, usually grazed, cover vast areas in Southern Europe and Northern Africa. They host rich resident bird communities and, in winter, receive large numbers of migrants from Central and Northern European woodlands. Many species are part... Read More about Grazing improves habitat suitability for many ground foraging birds in Mediterranean wooded grasslands.

BioTIME : a database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene (2018)
Journal Article
Dornelas, M., Antão, L., Moyes, F., et, A., & Meyer, C. (2018). BioTIME : a database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 27(7), 760-786. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12729

Motivation The BioTIME database contains raw data on species identities and abundances in ecological assemblages through time. These data enable users to calculate temporal trends in biodiversity within and amongst assemblages using a broad range... Read More about BioTIME : a database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene.

The road to functional recovery : temporal effects of matrix regeneration on Amazonian bats (2018)
Journal Article
Farneda, F., Rocha, R., Lopez-Baucells, A., Sampaio, E., Palmeirim, J., Bobrowiec, P., …Meyer, C. (2018). The road to functional recovery : temporal effects of matrix regeneration on Amazonian bats. Tropical Conservation Science, 11, https://doi.org/10.1177/1940082918777185

Across the tropics, vast deforested areas are undergoing forest regeneration due to land abandonment. Although secondary forest is an expanding type of landscape matrix that has been shown to buffer some of the negative consequences of forest loss an... Read More about The road to functional recovery : temporal effects of matrix regeneration on Amazonian bats.

The importance of lakes for bat conservation in Amazonian rainforests : an assessment using autonomous recorders (2018)
Journal Article
Torrent, L., Lopez-Baucells, A., Rocha, R., Bobrowiec, P., & Meyer, C. (2018). The importance of lakes for bat conservation in Amazonian rainforests : an assessment using autonomous recorders. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 4(4), 339-351. https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.83

Recent studies predict a future decrease in precipitation across the tropics, particularly the Amazon, likely causing significant droughts, with negative consequences for Amazonian freshwater biomes, especially lakes. Immediate consequences of global... Read More about The importance of lakes for bat conservation in Amazonian rainforests : an assessment using autonomous recorders.

Secondary forest regeneration benefits old-growth specialist bats in a fragmented tropical landscape (2018)
Journal Article
Rocha, R., Ovaskainen, O., Lopez-Baucells, A., Farneda, F., Sampaio, E., Bobrowiec, P., …Meyer, C. (2018). Secondary forest regeneration benefits old-growth specialist bats in a fragmented tropical landscape. Scientific reports, 8(3819), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-21999-2

Tropical forest loss and fragmentation are due to increase in coming decades. Understanding how matrix dynamics, especially secondary forest regrowth, can lessen fragmentation impacts is key to understanding species persistence in modified landscapes... Read More about Secondary forest regeneration benefits old-growth specialist bats in a fragmented tropical landscape.

Functional recovery of Amazonian bat assemblages following secondary forest succession (2017)
Journal Article
Farneda, F., Rocha, R., Lopez-Baucells, A., Sampaio, E., Palmeirim, J., Bobrowiec, P., …Meyer, C. (2017). Functional recovery of Amazonian bat assemblages following secondary forest succession. Biological Conservation, 218, 192-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2017.12.036

Regenerating forests occupy large areas in the tropics, mostly as a result of deforestation for livestock and agriculture, followed by land abandonment. Despite the importance of regenerating secondary forests for tropical biodiversity conservation,... Read More about Functional recovery of Amazonian bat assemblages following secondary forest succession.

Molecular, morphological and acoustic identification of Eumops maurus and Eumops hansae (Chiroptera: Molossidae) with new reports from Central Amazonia (2017)
Journal Article
Lopez-Baucells, A., Rocha, R., Tavares, V., Moras, L., Silva, S., Bobrowiec, P., & Meyer, C. (2017). Molecular, morphological and acoustic identification of Eumops maurus and Eumops hansae (Chiroptera: Molossidae) with new reports from Central Amazonia. Tropical Zoology, 31(1), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/03946975.2017.1382284

Eumops maurus and Eumops hansae are rarely captured Neotropical molossid bats for which information on taxonomy, natural history, and spatial distribution are scarce. This translates into a poor understanding of their ecology and limits the delimit... Read More about Molecular, morphological and acoustic identification of Eumops maurus and Eumops hansae (Chiroptera: Molossidae) with new reports from Central Amazonia.

Geographical variation in the high-duty cycle echolocation of the cryptic common mustached bat Pteronotus cf. rubiginosus (Mormoopidae) (2017)
Journal Article
Lopez-Baucells, A., Torrent, L., Rocha, R., Pavan, A., Bobrowiec, P., & Meyer, C. (2017). Geographical variation in the high-duty cycle echolocation of the cryptic common mustached bat Pteronotus cf. rubiginosus (Mormoopidae). Bioacoustics, 27(4), 341-357. https://doi.org/10.1080/09524622.2017.1357145

The use of bioacoustics as a tool for bat research is rapidly increasing worldwide. There is substantial evidence that environmental factors such as weather conditions or habitat structure can affect echolocation call structure in bats and thus compr... Read More about Geographical variation in the high-duty cycle echolocation of the cryptic common mustached bat Pteronotus cf. rubiginosus (Mormoopidae).

Design matters : an evaluation of the impact of small man-made forest clearings on tropical bats using a before-after-control-impact design (2017)
Journal Article
Rocha, R., Ovaskainen, O., Lopez-Baucells, A., Farneda, F., Ferreira, D., Bobrowiec, P., …Meyer, C. (2017). Design matters : an evaluation of the impact of small man-made forest clearings on tropical bats using a before-after-control-impact design. Forest Ecology and Management, 401, 8-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2017.06.053

In recent years, large clearings (>1000 ha) accounted for gradually smaller amounts of total annual deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, whereas the proportion of small clearings (

Does sex matter? Gender-specific responses to forest fragmentation in Neotropical bats (2017)
Journal Article
Rocha, R., Ferreira, D., Lopez-Baucells, A., Farneda, F., Carreiras, J., Palmeirim, J., & Meyer, C. (2017). Does sex matter? Gender-specific responses to forest fragmentation in Neotropical bats. Biotropica, 49(6), 881-890. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.12474

Understanding the consequences of habitat modification on wildlife communities is central to the development of conservation strategies. However, albeit male and female individuals of numerous species are known to exhibit differences in habitat use,... Read More about Does sex matter? Gender-specific responses to forest fragmentation in Neotropical bats.

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.