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Action Synopsis: Bat Conservation About Actions

Control invasive predators

How is the evidence assessed?
  • Effectiveness
    80%
  • Certainty
    40%
  • Harms
    0%

Study locations

Key messages

  • One study evaluated the effects of controlling invasive predators on bat populations. The study was in New Zealand.

COMMUNITY RESPONSE (0 STUDIES)

POPULATION RESPONSE (1 STUDY)

BEHAVIOUR (0 STUDIES)

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Key messages provide a descriptive index to studies we have found that test this intervention.

Studies are not directly comparable or of equal value. When making decisions based on this evidence, you should consider factors such as study size, study design, reported metrics and relevance of the study to your situation, rather than simply counting the number of studies that support a particular interpretation.

Supporting evidence from individual studies

  1. A replicated, before-and-after study in 1993–2015 in a rainforest in Eglinton Valley, New Zealand (O'Connell et al 2017) found that ship rat Rattus rattus control resulted in increased survival probabilities of female bats within three long-tailed bat Chalinolobus tuberculatus colonies. Average annual survival probabilities for both adult and juvenile female bats were higher in years with rat control (adult female: 0.82; juvenile female: 0.76) than without (adult female: 0.55; juvenile female: 0.55). Population trends were positive for all three bat colonies when rats were controlled, and negative for when rats were not controlled (data reported as statistical model results). Rats within the roosting ranges of all three bat colonies were poisoned using bait stations in 2006–2009 following high beech Nothofagaceae spp. seedfall and an increase in numbers. Bats were captured annually during the breeding season over 22 summers in 1993–2015 (average 6–8 captures/colony/year). Mark-recapture data were used to calculate survival probabilities.

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Please cite as:

Berthinussen, A., Richardson O.C. and Altringham J.D. (2021) Bat Conservation: Global Evidence for the Effects of Interventions. Conservation Evidence Series Synopses. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

 

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