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Biodiversity and Conservation
Published in: Biodiversity and Conservation 9/2018

13-04-2018 | Original Paper

Ignoring seasonal changes in the ecological niche of non-migratory species may lead to biases in potential distribution models: lessons from bats

Authors: Sonia Smeraldo, Mirko Di Febbraro, Luciano Bosso, Carles Flaquer, David Guixé, Fulgencio Lisón, Angelika Meschede, Javier Juste, Julia Prüger, Xavier Puig-Montserrat, Danilo Russo

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Abstract

Phenology is a key feature in the description of species niches to capture seasonality in resource use and climate requirements. Species distribution models (SDMs) are widespread tools to evaluate a species’ potential distribution and identify its large-scale habitat preferences. Despite its chief importance, data phenology is often neglected in SDM development. Non-migratory bats of temperate regions are good model species to test the effect of data seasonality on SDM outputs because of their different roosting preferences between hibernation and reproduction. We hypothesized that (1) the output of SDMs developed for six non-migratory European bat species will differ between hibernation and reproduction; (2) models built from datasets encompassing both ecological stages will perform better than seasonal models. We employed a dataset of 470 independent occurrences of bat hibernacula and 400 independent records of nursery roosts of selected species and for each species we developed separate winter, summer and mixed (i.e. generated from both winter and summer occurrences) models. Seasonal and mixed potential ranges differed from each other and the direction of this difference was species-specific. Mixed models outperformed seasonal models in representing species niches. Our work highlights the importance of considering data seasonality in the development of SDMs for bats as well as many other organisms, including non-migratory species, otherwise the analysis will lead to significant biases whose consequences for conservation planning and landscape management may be detrimental.
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Metadata
Title
Ignoring seasonal changes in the ecological niche of non-migratory species may lead to biases in potential distribution models: lessons from bats
Authors
Sonia Smeraldo
Mirko Di Febbraro
Luciano Bosso
Carles Flaquer
David Guixé
Fulgencio Lisón
Angelika Meschede
Javier Juste
Julia Prüger
Xavier Puig-Montserrat
Danilo Russo
Publication date
13-04-2018
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Published in
Biodiversity and Conservation / Issue 9/2018
Print ISSN: 0960-3115
Electronic ISSN: 1572-9710
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-018-1545-7

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