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  • Forestry
  • Bioindicator Research

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  • Land use changes necessitate effective forest management tools like bioindicators.
  • Invasive alien tree species, such as black cherry (Prunus serotina), pose challenges to native forest ecosystems.
  • Understanding the impact of invasive species on wildlife is crucial for conservation efforts.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the influence of invasive black cherry on bat (Chiroptera: Verpertilionidae) communities in Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) forests.
  • To assess the potential of bats as bioindicators for black cherry invasion levels.
  • To identify thresholds in black cherry understory density that affect bat activity.

Main Methods:

  • Bioacoustic monitoring of bat diversity and relative abundance over 60 nights.
  • Study conducted across three distinct succession stages of black cherry invasion in pine forests.
  • Identification of bat species and sonotypes from recorded calls.

Main Results:

  • Eight bat species were identified. Bat diversity and abundance were comparable in pine monoculture and light black cherry forest stages.
  • Dense black cherry forest showed significantly lower bat diversity (four species) and overall abundance.
  • Edge and narrow space forager bat guilds exhibited high sensitivity to dense black cherry understory.

Conclusions:

  • Bats can serve as effective bioindicators for monitoring black cherry invasion in pine forest ecosystems.
  • A dense black cherry understory significantly impacts bat community structure and abundance.
  • The transition from light to dense black cherry understory represents a potential threshold for forest management and conservation.