Browsing RESEARCH: Taylor, P by Author "Weier, S.M."
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Bat species richness and community composition along a mega-transect in the Okavango River Basin
Weier, S.M.; Keith, M.; Neef, G.G.; Parker, D.M.; Taylor, P.J. (2020)The Okavango River Basin is a hotspot of bat diversity that requires urgent and adequate protection. To advise future conservation strategies, we investigated the relative importance of a range of potential environmental ... -
Changes of bat species composition over altitudinal gradients on northern and southern aspects of the Soutpansberg mountain range, South Africa
Weier, S.M.; Linden, V.M.G.; Gaigher, I.; White, P.J.C.; Taylor, P.J. (De Gruyter, 2017)In order to gain insight into the pattern of bat species composition over altitude and the environmental variables driving the observed pattern, we compared data from moist southern and drier northern aspects of the ... -
Ecosystem services and disservices by birds, bats and monkeys change with macadamia landscape heterogeneity
Linden, V.M.G.; Grass, I.; Joubert, E.; Tscharntke, T.; Weier, S.M.; Taylor, P.J. (Wiley, 2019)The relative importance of ecosystem services and disservices can change with landscape structure in a poorly understood way. We compare the impact of biocontrol, provided by bats and birds, with that of crop raiding by ... -
Insect pest consumption by bats in macadamia orchards established by molecular diet analyses
Weier, S.M.; Moodley, Y.; Fraser, M.F.; Linden, V.M.G.; Grass, I.; Tscharntke, T.; Taylor, P.J. (2019)The diet of insectivorous bat species is difficult to study and the least invasive tool to gain information on these predators’ foraging preferences is the study of their faecal pellets. The aim of this study was to determine ... -
The Limpopo River exerts a powerful but spatially limited effect on bat communities in a semi-arid region of South Africa
Taylor, P.J.; Nelufule, M.; Parker, D.M.; Toussaint, D.C.; Weier, S.M. (2020)Although the Limpopo River is not perennial in its upper stretches in South Africa, the presence of a narrow riparian forest zone is expected to enhance bat diversity by promoting a wider range of foraging types, but the ...