Optimizing conservation strategies for Mexican free-tailed bats: a population viability and ecosystem services approach

Verfasser / Beitragende:
[Ruscena Wiederholt, Laura López-Hoffman, Colleen Svancara, Gary McCracken, Wayne Thogmartin, Jay Diffendorfer, Brady Mattson, Kenneth Bagstad, Paul Cryan, Amy Russell, Darius Semmens, Rodrigo Medellín]
Ort, Verlag, Jahr:
2015
Enthalten in:
Biodiversity and Conservation, 24/1(2015-01-01), 63-82
Format:
Artikel (online)
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520 3 |a Conservation planning can be challenging due to the need to balance biological concerns about population viability with social concerns about the benefits biodiversity provide to society, often while operating under a limited budget. Methods and tools that help prioritize conservation actions are critical for the management of at-risk species. Here, we use a multi-attribute utility function to assess the optimal maternity roosts to conserve for maintaining the population viability and the ecosystem services of a single species, the Mexican free-tailed bat (Tadarida brasiliensis mexicana). Mexican free-tailed bats provide ecosystem services such as insect pest-suppression in agricultural areas and recreational viewing opportunities, and may be threatened by climate change and development of wind energy. We evaluated each roost based on five attributes: the maternity roost's contribution to population viability, the pest suppression ecosystem services to the surrounding area provided by the bats residing in the roost, the ecotourism value of the roost, the risks posed to each roost structure, and the risks posed to the population of bats residing in each roost. We compared several scenarios that prioritized these attributes differently, hypothesizing that the set of roosts with the highest rankings would vary according to the conservation scenario. Our results indicate that placing higher values on different roost attributes (e.g. population importance over ecosystem service value) altered the roost rankings. We determined that the values placed on various conservation objectives are an important determinant of habitat planning. 
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690 7 |a Anthropogenic risks  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Tadarida brasiliensis mexicana  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Maternity roosts  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Conservation assessment and planning  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Ecosystem services  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Decision-support tools  |2 nationallicence 
700 1 |a Wiederholt  |D Ruscena  |u School of Natural Resources & the Environment, The University of Arizona, 85721, Tucson, AZ, USA  |4 aut 
700 1 |a López-Hoffman  |D Laura  |u School of Natural Resources & the Environment, The University of Arizona, 85721, Tucson, AZ, USA  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Svancara  |D Colleen  |u School of Natural Resources & the Environment, The University of Arizona, 85721, Tucson, AZ, USA  |4 aut 
700 1 |a McCracken  |D Gary  |u Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, 37996, Knoxville, TN, USA  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Thogmartin  |D Wayne  |u United States Geological Survey, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, 2630 Fanta Reed Road, 54603, La Crosse, WI, USA  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Diffendorfer  |D Jay  |u United States Geological Survey, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, 80225, Denver, CO, USA  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Mattson  |D Brady  |u Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Bagstad  |D Kenneth  |u United States Geological Survey, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, 80225, Denver, CO, USA  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Cryan  |D Paul  |u U.S. Geological Survey, Fort Collins Science Center, 80526, Fort Collins, CO, USA  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Russell  |D Amy  |u Department of Biology, Grand Valley State University, 49401, Allendale, MI, USA  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Semmens  |D Darius  |u United States Geological Survey, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, 80225, Denver, CO, USA  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Medellín  |D Rodrigo  |u Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, 04510, Mexico City, Ap. Postal 70-275, Mexico  |4 aut 
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950 |B NATIONALLICENCE  |P 700  |E 1-  |a López-Hoffman  |D Laura  |u School of Natural Resources & the Environment, The University of Arizona, 85721, Tucson, AZ, USA  |4 aut 
950 |B NATIONALLICENCE  |P 700  |E 1-  |a Svancara  |D Colleen  |u School of Natural Resources & the Environment, The University of Arizona, 85721, Tucson, AZ, USA  |4 aut 
950 |B NATIONALLICENCE  |P 700  |E 1-  |a McCracken  |D Gary  |u Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, 37996, Knoxville, TN, USA  |4 aut 
950 |B NATIONALLICENCE  |P 700  |E 1-  |a Thogmartin  |D Wayne  |u United States Geological Survey, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, 2630 Fanta Reed Road, 54603, La Crosse, WI, USA  |4 aut 
950 |B NATIONALLICENCE  |P 700  |E 1-  |a Diffendorfer  |D Jay  |u United States Geological Survey, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, 80225, Denver, CO, USA  |4 aut 
950 |B NATIONALLICENCE  |P 700  |E 1-  |a Mattson  |D Brady  |u Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria  |4 aut 
950 |B NATIONALLICENCE  |P 700  |E 1-  |a Bagstad  |D Kenneth  |u United States Geological Survey, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, 80225, Denver, CO, USA  |4 aut 
950 |B NATIONALLICENCE  |P 700  |E 1-  |a Cryan  |D Paul  |u U.S. Geological Survey, Fort Collins Science Center, 80526, Fort Collins, CO, USA  |4 aut 
950 |B NATIONALLICENCE  |P 700  |E 1-  |a Russell  |D Amy  |u Department of Biology, Grand Valley State University, 49401, Allendale, MI, USA  |4 aut 
950 |B NATIONALLICENCE  |P 700  |E 1-  |a Semmens  |D Darius  |u United States Geological Survey, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, 80225, Denver, CO, USA  |4 aut 
950 |B NATIONALLICENCE  |P 700  |E 1-  |a Medellín  |D Rodrigo  |u Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, 04510, Mexico City, Ap. Postal 70-275, Mexico  |4 aut 
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