sh.sePublications
Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • harvard-anglia-ruskin-university
  • apa-old-doi-prefix.csl
  • sodertorns-hogskola-harvard.csl
  • sodertorns-hogskola-oxford.csl
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Bats in Urban Sweden: A multiple regression analysis of bats’ relationship to urbanization
Södertörn University, School of Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies, Environmental Science.
2021 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (Two Years)), 20 credits / 30 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

Human development continues to use up more physical space in the natural world, threatening the natural habitats of many organisms. To combat the loss of biodiversity science needs to explore what landscape features are important for different organisms so that we can incorporate these into the modern environment. As bats play an important role in many ecosystems and can reflect changes through trophic levels, analyzing their preferred habitats can help planners improve biological diversity of the urban habitat. Using acoustically identified bat sightings from Artportalen.se for the years 2017-2018, this paper studied the habitats of bats in Sweden. Through multiple regression analysis we examine the response in abundance and/or diversity of bats to physical and socio-cultural attributes of the urban habitat. We examined a total of 10160 bats from 18 species in 418 land cover locales and 306 demographical statistical areas with varying degrees of urbanization. Our results indicate that bat abundance and diversity decrease significantly with higher urbanization while deciduous forests are the most important land cover type for all bats. The results also indicate that wealthier areas have less abundance and diversity even when factoring in population density. Species specific analysis suggested that bat species who are better adapted at foraging in open vegetated landscapes and over water were less susceptible to the negative impacts of the urban habitat. We conclude that diverse habitats with a mixture of open vegetated areas, watercourses and broadleaf forests are the most important land features for a diverse bat fauna along with high connectivity via tree cover and linear landscape elements. If urban planning could incorporate these features into the urban habitat, some of the negative impacts of urbanization could be prevented. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2021. , p. 39
Keywords [en]
Urban ecology, Insectivorous bats, Chiroptera, Species composition, Bioindicator, Sustainable development
National Category
Ecology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-45771OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-45771DiVA, id: diva2:1567807
Subject / course
Environmental Science
Uppsok
Life Earth Science
Supervisors
Available from: 2021-06-17 Created: 2021-06-16 Last updated: 2021-06-17Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

fulltext(950 kB)574 downloads
File information
File name FULLTEXT01.pdfFile size 950 kBChecksum SHA-512
2a1904069c10a489bbc4c39c8b4d27875cc9bb30cac8f2fa07ec9d294c06273b0de949a19bf67a5aa91c7def9006eb13bd95d297be5af602be5be0b3ed82f044
Type fulltextMimetype application/pdf

By organisation
Environmental Science
Ecology

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar
Total: 576 downloads
The number of downloads is the sum of all downloads of full texts. It may include eg previous versions that are now no longer available

urn-nbn

Altmetric score

urn-nbn
Total: 633 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • harvard-anglia-ruskin-university
  • apa-old-doi-prefix.csl
  • sodertorns-hogskola-harvard.csl
  • sodertorns-hogskola-oxford.csl
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf