caa a22 4500 605526346 CHVBK 20210128100802.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10531-014-0790-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10531-014-0790-7 Optimizing conservation strategies for Mexican free-tailed bats: a population viability and ecosystem services approach [Elektronische Daten] [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] 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. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Anthropogenic risks nationallicence Tadarida brasiliensis mexicana nationallicence Maternity roosts nationallicence Conservation assessment and planning nationallicence Ecosystem services nationallicence Decision-support tools nationallicence Wiederholt Ruscena School of Natural Resources & the Environment, The University of Arizona, 85721, Tucson, AZ, USA aut López-Hoffman Laura School of Natural Resources & the Environment, The University of Arizona, 85721, Tucson, AZ, USA aut Svancara Colleen School of Natural Resources & the Environment, The University of Arizona, 85721, Tucson, AZ, USA aut McCracken Gary Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, 37996, Knoxville, TN, USA aut Thogmartin Wayne United States Geological Survey, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, 2630 Fanta Reed Road, 54603, La Crosse, WI, USA aut Diffendorfer Jay United States Geological Survey, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, 80225, Denver, CO, USA aut Mattson Brady Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria aut Bagstad Kenneth United States Geological Survey, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, 80225, Denver, CO, USA aut Cryan Paul U.S. Geological Survey, Fort Collins Science Center, 80526, Fort Collins, CO, USA aut Russell Amy Department of Biology, Grand Valley State University, 49401, Allendale, MI, USA aut Semmens Darius United States Geological Survey, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, 80225, Denver, CO, USA aut Medellín Rodrigo Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, 04510, Mexico City, Ap. Postal 70-275, Mexico aut Biodiversity and Conservation Springer Netherlands 24/1(2015-01-01), 63-82 0960-3115 24:1<63 2015 24 10531 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-014-0790-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-014-0790-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wiederholt Ruscena School of Natural Resources & the Environment, The University of Arizona, 85721, Tucson, AZ, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- López-Hoffman Laura School of Natural Resources & the Environment, The University of Arizona, 85721, Tucson, AZ, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Svancara Colleen School of Natural Resources & the Environment, The University of Arizona, 85721, Tucson, AZ, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- McCracken Gary Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, 37996, Knoxville, TN, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Thogmartin Wayne United States Geological Survey, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, 2630 Fanta Reed Road, 54603, La Crosse, WI, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Diffendorfer Jay United States Geological Survey, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, 80225, Denver, CO, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mattson Brady Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bagstad Kenneth United States Geological Survey, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, 80225, Denver, CO, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Cryan Paul U.S. Geological Survey, Fort Collins Science Center, 80526, Fort Collins, CO, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Russell Amy Department of Biology, Grand Valley State University, 49401, Allendale, MI, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Semmens Darius United States Geological Survey, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, 80225, Denver, CO, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Medellín Rodrigo Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, 04510, Mexico City, Ap. 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