Large home range size in the ground foraging bat, Mystacina tuberculata, in cold temperate rainforest, New Zealand

• Autorzy: Christie J.E. , O'Donnell C. F. J.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Large home range sizes are not unusual for small forest-dwelling bats living in cold temperate climates. However, lesser short-tailed bats (Mystacina tuberculata) feed on the ground for a proportion of their time, so their home range requirements may not conform to predictions based on other bat species. The home range size requirements of a population of M. tuberculata were investigated in cold temperate rainforest in the Eglinton Valley, Fiordland, New Zealand. Home range data was collected from a total of 21 out of 23 radio-tagged bats during late summer to early autumn of 1997 and 1998. Individual bats were followed for an average of 7.8 ± 3.2 (SD) days and collectively ranged over a total area of 14,710 ha. Thirteen colonial roosts were located within a central roosting area occupying 17 ha. A further 10 solitary roosts were located within individual foraging areas. Individual 100% minimum convex polygons varied considerably in size from 127.3 to 6,223.4 ha (median = 478.5 ha) with a range length of 2.2–23.0 km (median = 5.0 km). Cluster analyses revealed individual home ranges contained multi-nuclear patches of activity. Despite their large home ranges, bats concentrated activity (85%) in small core areas of 0.6–270.3 ha (median = 26.5 ha), with 85% of core areas less than 62 ha in size. Moderate levels of home range overlap amongst individuals (median = 26.8%) decreased to low levels for individual core areas (median = 3.7%). Our results show that M. tuberculata have relatively large home ranges, similar to many other small temperate rainforest bats, and implies that conservation areas designed for M. tuberculata should be large. Our predictions should be tested on populations of this species in areas with more abundant resources and milder climates.

• Wydawca: -
• Czasopismo: Acta Chiropterologica
• Rocznik: 2014
• Tom: 16
• Numer: 2
• Opis fizyczny: p.369-377,fig.,ref.

Twórcy

autor

Christie J.E.

• Science and Capability Group, Department of Conservation, Private Bag 4715, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand
• Department of Zoology, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand

autor

O'Donnell C. F. J.

• Science and Capability Group, Department of Conservation, Private Bag 4715, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand

Bibliografia

• 1. H. D. J. N. Aldridge , and R. M. Brigham . 1988. Load carrying and maneuverability in an insectivorous bat: a test of the 5% ‘rule’ of radio telemetry. Journal of Mammalogy, 50: 157–165. Google Scholar
• 2. D. Almenar , J. Aihartza , U. Goiti , E. Salsamendi , and I. Garin . 2011. Reproductive and age classes do not change spatial dynamics of foraging long-fingered bats (Myotis capaccinii). European Journal of Wildlife Research, 57: 929–937. Google Scholar
• 3. A. M. Arkins , A. S. Winnington , S. Anderson , and M. N. Clout . 1999. Diet and nectarivorous foraging behaviour of the short-tailed bat (Mystacina tuberculata). Journal of Zoology (London), 247: 183–187. Google Scholar
• 4. K. M. Borkin , and S. Parsons . 2011. Home range and habitat selection by a threatened bat in exotic plantation forest. Forest Ecology and Management, 262: 845–852. Google Scholar
• 5. R. M. Brigham , and M. B. Fenton . 1986. The influence of roost closure on the roosting and foraging behaviour of Eptesicus fuscus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Canadian Journal ofZoology, 69: 1128–1133. Google Scholar
• 6. J. E. Christie 2003. Light-tagging observations of microhabitat use and flight behaviour by lesser short-tailed bats (Mystacina tuberculata). Bat Research News, 44: 54–58. Google Scholar
• 7. J. E. Christie 2006. Nocturnal activity patterns of the lesser short-tailed bat (Mystacina tuberculata) in temperate rainforest, Fiordland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 33: 125–132. Google Scholar
• 8. J. E. Christie , and W. Simpson . 2006. Influence of winter weather conditions on lesser short-tailed bat (Mystacina tuberculata) activity in Nothofagus forest, Fiordland. New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 33: 133–140. Google Scholar
• 9. M. Dietz , and E. K. V. Kalko . 2007. Reproduction affects flight activity in female and male Daubenton's bats, Myotis daubentonii. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 85: 653–664. Google Scholar
• 10. P. Dilks , G. Elliot , and C. O'Donnell . 1995. Mist netting techniques. Ecological Management, 3: 20–28. Google Scholar
• 11. D. S. Dobkin , R. D. Gettinger , and M. G. Gerdes . 1995. Spring-time movements, roost use, and foraging activity of Townsend's big-eared bat (Plecotus townsendii) in central Oregon. Great Basin Naturalist, 55: 315–321. Google Scholar
• 12. C. E. Ecroyd 1996. The ecology of Dactylanthus taylorii and threats to its survival. New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 20: 81–100. Google Scholar
• 13. M. B. Fenton 1997. Science and the conservation of bats. Journal of Mammalogy, 78: 1–14. Google Scholar
• 14. M. B. Fenton , and W. Bogdanowicz . 2002. Relationships between external morphology and foraging behaviour: bats in the genus Myotis. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 80: 1004–1013. Google Scholar
• 15. J. S. Findley 1993. Bats: a community perspective. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 167 pp. Google Scholar
• 16. G. Ford , and D. W. Krumme . 1979. The analysis of space use patterns. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 76: 125–155. Google Scholar
• 17. K. Frafjord 2012. Influence of night length on home range size in the northern bat Eptesicus nilssonii. Mammalian Biology, 78: 205–211. Google Scholar
• 18. C. L. Furlonger , J. H. Dewar , and M. B. Fenton . 1987. Habitat use by foraging insectivorous bats. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 65: 284–288. Google Scholar
• 19. R. Gerell , and K. G. Lundberg . 1993. Decline of a bat Pipistrellus pipistrellus population in an industrialized area in south Sweden. Biological Conservation, 65: 153–157. Google Scholar
• 20. U. Goiti , J. R. Aihartza , I. Garin , and J. Zabala . 2003. Influence of habitat on the foraging behaviour of the Mediterranean horseshoe bat, Rhinolophus euryale. Acta Chiropterologica, 5: 75–84. Google Scholar
• 21. U. Goiti , J. R. Aihartza , D. Almenar , E. Salsamendi , and I. Garin . 2006. Seasonal foraging by Rhinolophus euryale (Rhinolophidae) in an Atlantic rural landscape in northern Iberian Peninsula. Acta Chiropterologica, 8: 141–156. Google Scholar
• 22. T. C. Greene , P. J. Dilks , I. M. Westbrooke , and M. A. Pryde . 2013. Monitoring selected forest bird species through aerial application of 1080 baits, Waitutu, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 37: 41–50. Google Scholar
• 23. S. Harris , W. J. Cresswell , P. G. Forde , W. J. Trewhella , T. Woollard , and S. Wray . 1990. Home-range analysis using radio-tracking data — a review of problems and techniques particularly as applied to the study of mammals. Mammal Review, 20: 97–123. Google Scholar
• 24. P. B. Heenan , and R. D. Smissen . 2013. Revised circumscription of Nothofagus and recognition of the segregate genera Fuscospora, Lophozonia, and Trisyngyne (Nothofagaceae). Phytotaxa, 146: 1–31. Google Scholar
• 25. J. Hillen , A. Kiefer , and M. Veith . 2009. Foraging site fidelity shapes the spatial organisation of a population of female western barbastelle bats. Biological Conservation, 142: 817–823. Google Scholar
• 26. J. S. Johnson , M. J. Lacki , and M. D. Baker . 2007. Foraging ecology of long-legged myotis (Myotis volans) in North-Central Idaho. Journal of Mammalogy, 88: 1261–1270. Google Scholar
• 27. G. Jones , L. Duvergé , and R. D. Ransome . 1995. Conservation biology of an endangered species: field studies of greater horseshoe bats. Symposia of the Zoology Society of London, 67: 309–324. Google Scholar
• 28. G. Jones , P. I. Webb , J. A. Sedgeley , and C. F. J. O'Donnell . 2003. Mysterious Mystacina: how the New Zealand short-tailed bat (Mystacina tuberculata) locates insect prey. Journal of Experimental Biology, 206: 4209–4216. Google Scholar
• 29. E. K. V. D. Kalko , C. O. Friemel , J. R. Handley , and H.-U. Schnitzler . 1999. Roosting and foraging behavior of two Neotropical gleaning bats, Tonatia silvicola and Trachops cirrhosus (Phyllostomidae). Biotropica, 31: 344–353. Google Scholar
• 30. R. Kenward , and K. H. Hodder . 1996. Ranges V. An analysis system for biological location data. Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Wareham, 68 pp. Google Scholar
• 31. B. Lloyd 2005. The lesser short-tailed bat. Pp. 110–126, in The handbook of New Zealand mammals, 2nd edition ( C. M. King , ed.). Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 600 pp. Google Scholar
• 32. L. Lumsden , A. Bennett , J. Silins , and S. Krasna . 1994. Fauna in a remnant vegetation-farmland mosaic: movements, roosts and foraging ecology of bats. A report to the Australian Nature Conservation Agency ‘Save the Bush’ Program. Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Melbourne, Victoria. Google Scholar
• 33. J. McCartney , I. Stringer , and M. A. Potter . 2007. Feeding activity in a captive population of New Zealand southern short-tailed bats (Mystacina tuberculata tuberculata). New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 34: 227–238. Google Scholar
• 34. C. F. J. Meyer , M. Weinbeer , and E. K. V. Kalko . 2005. Home-range size and spacing patterns of Macrophyllum macrophyllum (Phyllostomidae) foraging over water. Journal of Mammalogy, 86: 587–598. Google Scholar
• 35. A. Moeed , and M. J. Meads . 1985. Seasonality of pitfall trapped invertebrates in three types of native forest, Orongorongo Valley, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 12: 17–53. Google Scholar
• 36. A. Moeed , and M. J. Meads . 1987. Seasonality and density of litter and humus invertebrates in broadleaf-podocarp and hard beech forests in Orongorongo Valley, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 14: 51–63. Google Scholar
• 37. U. M. Norberg , and J. M. V. Raynerraynor . 1987. Ecological morphology and flight in bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera): wing adaptations, flight performance, foraging strategy and echolocation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 316B: 335–427. Google Scholar
• 38. C. F. J. O'Donnell 1999. The ecology, spatial organisation and conservation of long-tailed bats Chalinolobus tuberculatus. Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 259 pp. Google Scholar
• 39. C. F. J. O'Donnell 2001. Home range and use of space by Chalinolobus tuberculatus, a temperate rainforest bat from New Zealand. Journal of Zoology (London), 253: 253–264. Google Scholar
• 40. C. F. J. O'Donnell , and J. M. Hoare . 2012. Quantifying the benefits of long-term integrated pest control for forest bird populations in a New Zealand temperate rainforest. New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 36: 131–140. Google Scholar
• 41. C. F. J. O'Donnell , J. E. Christie , C. Corben , J. A. Sedgeley , and W. Simpson . 1999. Rediscovery of short-tailed bats (Mystacina sp.) in Fiordland, New Zealand. Preliminary observations of taxonomy, echolocation calls, population size, home range and habitat use. New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 23: 21–30. Google Scholar
• 42. C. F. J. O'Donnell , J. E. Christie , and W. Simpson . 2006. Habitat use and nocturnal activity of lesser short-tailed bats (Mystacina tuberculata) in comparison with long-tailed bats (Chalinolobus tuberculatus) in temperate rainforest. New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 33: 113–124. Google Scholar
• 43. C. F. J. O'Donnell , J. E. Christie , R. A. Hitchmough , B. Lloyd , and S. Parsons . 2010. The conservation status of New Zealand bats, 2009. New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 37: 297–311. Google Scholar
• 44. S. F. Owen , M. A. Menzel , W. M. Ford , B. R. Chapman , K. V. Miller , J. W. Edwards , and P. B. Wood . 2003. Home-range size and habitat used by the Northern myotis (Myotis septentrionalis). American Midland Naturalist, 150: 352–359. Google Scholar
• 45. S. Parsons 1997. Search phase echolocation calls of the New Zealand lesser short-tailed bat (Mystacina tuberculata) and long-tailed bat (Chalinolobus tuberculatus). Canadian Journal of Zoology, 75: 1487–1494. Google Scholar
• 46. R Development Core Team. 2013. R: a language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, < www.r-project.org >. Google Scholar
• 47. P. A. Racey 1974. Ageing and assessment of reproductive status of pipistrelle bats, Pipistrellus pipistrellus. Journal of Zoology (London), 173: 264–271. Google Scholar
• 48. P. A. Racey , and A. E. Entwistle . 2003. Conservation ecology. Pp. 680–743, in Bat ecology ( T. H. Kunz and M. B. Fenton , eds.). University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 779 pp. Google Scholar
• 49. P. A. Racey , and J. R. Speakman . 1987. The energy costs of pregnancy and lactation in heterothermic bats. Symposia of the Zoology Society of London, 57: 107–125. Google Scholar
• 50. P. A. Racey , and S. M. Swift . 1985. Feeding ecology of Pipistrellus pipistrellus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) during pregnancy and lactation. I. Foraging behaviour. Journal of Animal Ecology, 54: 205–215. Google Scholar
• 51. J. A. Sedgeley 2001. Winter activity in the tree-roosting lesser short-tailed bat, Mystacina tuberculata, in a cold-temperate climate in New Zealand. Acta Chiropterologica, 3: 179–195. Google Scholar
• 52. J. A. Sedgeley 2003. Roost site selection and roosting behaviour in lesser short-tailed bats (Mystacina tuberculata) in comparison with long-tailed bats (Chalinolobus tuberculatus) in Nothofagus forest, Fiordland. New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 30: 227–241 Google Scholar
• 53. J. R. Speakman , and D. W. Thomas . 2003. Physiological ecology and energetics of bats. Pp. 430–492, in Bat ecology ( T. H. Kunz and M. B. Fenton , eds.). University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 779 pp. Google Scholar
• 54. C. A. Toth , and S. Parsons . 2013. Is lek breeding rare in bats? Journal of Zoology (London), 291: 3–11. Google Scholar
• 55. P. I. Webb , J. A. Sedgeley , and C. F. J. O'Donnell, 1998. Wing shape in New Zealand lesser short-tailed bats (Mystacina tuberculata). Journal of Zoology (London), 246: 462–465. Google Scholar
• 56. M. R. K. Zeale , I. Davidson-Watts , and G. Jones . 2012. Home range use and habitat selection by barbastelle bats (Barbastella barbastellus): implications for conservation. Journal of Mammalogy, 93: 1110–1118. Google Scholar

Uwagi

Rekord w opracowaniu