1/5 #WBTC1 #BatLand1 Agricultural expansion & the resultant fragmentation of habitats has led to https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌎" title="Earth globe americas" aria-label="Emoji: Earth globe americas"> declines in biodiversity, but how male & females https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦇" title="Bat" aria-label="Emoji: Bat"> respond to landscape fragmentation?
We assessed sex differences in the use of fragmented woodlands using #CitizenScience data

2/5 #WBTC1 #BatLand1 We analysedhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦇" title="Bat" aria-label="Emoji: Bat">capture data collected in 206 woodlands over 3yrs by volunteers @_BCT_ #BechsteinSurvey.
We created 6 buffers around each site and reclassified #LCM2007 @UK_CEH to calculate various landscape metrics using #Fragstats. We performed #glmm @rstudio

3/5 #WBTC1 #BatLand1 Total: 873 https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦇" title="Bat" aria-label="Emoji: Bat"> were captured, https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="♀️" title="Female sign" aria-label="Emoji: Female sign"> represented 40% of all captures, with P.auritus as the dominant sp. (41% of all https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦇" title="Bat" aria-label="Emoji: Bat">caught). We found sex differences in habitat use only in 3 spp. - P. auritus, M. nattereri and M. mystacinus and were species- specific

4/5 #WBTC1 #BatLand1 The study highlights that https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="♂️" title="Male sign" aria-label="Emoji: Male sign">& https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="♀️" title="Female sign" aria-label="Emoji: Female sign">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦇" title="Bat" aria-label="Emoji: Bat"> respond differently to fragmented woodland landscapes.https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="♀️" title="Female sign" aria-label="Emoji: Female sign"> mammals often have higher energy requirements than https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="♂️" title="Male sign" aria-label="Emoji: Male sign">, due to the demands of rearing young and thus are often found in higher quality habitats to meet those demands

5/5 #WBTC1 #BatLand1 We found more https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="♀️" title="Female sign" aria-label="Emoji: Female sign">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦇" title="Bat" aria-label="Emoji: Bat"> in poorly connected woodlands surrounded by #agricultural landscapes, demonstrating the importance of isolated remnant woodland and associated surrounding #habitats in highly fragmented rural environments.
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