Wednesday, October 09, 2024

 

Bat species richness in San Diego, C.A. decreases as artificial lights, urbanization, and unconserved land increase, with Townsend's big-eared bat especially affected




PLOS

Quantification of threats to bats at localized spatial scales for conservation and management 

image: 

Townsend’s big-eared bat captured in a mist net during field studies in California.

view more 

Credit: Drew Stokes, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)





Bat species richness in San Diego, C.A. decreases as artificial lights, urbanization, and unconserved land increase, with Townsend's big-eared bat especially affected

###

Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0310812

Article Title: Quantification of threats to bats at localized spatial scales for conservation and management

Author Countries: U.S.A.

Funding: The United States Geological Survey Western Ecological Research Center and Ecosystems Mission Area provided funding and support, and the National Science Foundation provided funding through the INTERN program and grants IOS-1656867 and IOS-1656708. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

No comments: