_Understanding rare Myotis spp. in an irish landscape:
research and conservation planning
_XIIth European Bat Research Symposium, Vilnius, Lithunia, 22-26 August 2011.
Emma Boston (1), Daniel Buckley (1), Mathieu Lundy (2), David Scott (2), Paulo Prodohl (2), Ian Montgomery (2) and Yann Gager (1)
(1) University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, (2) Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom
The Centre for Irish Bat Research was contracted to undertake a study to better understand Ireland’s rare Myotis spp. for which little data was available to inform conservation planning, required under national and EU directives. Here we present results from a multi-disciplinary research study on Myotis mystacinus and Myotis nattereri examining diet, habitat use, activity patterns, roost usage and population genetic structure in Ireland’s highly managed landscape. These two studies demonstrate the need for species-specific conservation strategies and give novel insight into the use of the Irish landscape by bats, Ireland’s most numerous group of mammals._
Emma Boston (1), Daniel Buckley (1), Mathieu Lundy (2), David Scott (2), Paulo Prodohl (2), Ian Montgomery (2) and Yann Gager (1)
(1) University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, (2) Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom
The Centre for Irish Bat Research was contracted to undertake a study to better understand Ireland’s rare Myotis spp. for which little data was available to inform conservation planning, required under national and EU directives. Here we present results from a multi-disciplinary research study on Myotis mystacinus and Myotis nattereri examining diet, habitat use, activity patterns, roost usage and population genetic structure in Ireland’s highly managed landscape. These two studies demonstrate the need for species-specific conservation strategies and give novel insight into the use of the Irish landscape by bats, Ireland’s most numerous group of mammals._