Sampling methodology influences habitat suitability modeling for chiropteran species.

ABSTRACT: Technological advances increase opportunities for novel wildlife survey methods. With increased detection methods, many organizations and agencies are creating habitat suitability models (HSMs) to identify critical habitats and prioritize conservation measures. However, multiple occurrence data types are used independently to create these HSMs with little understanding of how biases inherent to those data might impact HSM efficacy. We sought to understand how different data types can influence HSMs using three bat species (Lasiurus borealis, Lasiurus cinereus, and Perimyotis subflavus). We compared the overlap of models created from passive-only (acoustics), active-only (mist-netting and wind turbine mortalities), and combined occurrences to identify the effect of mult

SUBMITTER: Gaulke SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10256621 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature