Most bat species depend on forests for roosting, foraging, and drinking during part or all of their life cycles. Many of the world’s forests are managed using a variety of silvicultural treatments and, over the past 40 years, researchers have studied the responses of bats to these treatments. I carried out a qualitative synthesis of the literature on roosting and foraging responses of temperate insectivorous bats to silvicultural treatments at the stand level to determine what treatments may be most compatible with conservation and to guide future research. Eighty-eight studies from Canada, the United States, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, met review criteria. Based on my results, foraging and commuting habitat use was less affected by changes in forest structure and composition than roost habitat use. Mid-rotation treatments that reduce clutter while retaining overstory structure (e.g., thinning and fire) had more neutral and positive effects than treatments that removed all or most of the overstory. Based on an examination of the methods and assumptions of the 88 studies included in this review, I conclude that future studies should: 1) strive to account for treatment effects on detection probability of bats when using acoustic detectors; 2) examine responses of bats to silvicultural treatments outside the maternity season; 3) examine demographic and physiological responses to silvicultural treatments in addition to habitat use to fully understand the effects of these treatments on bat populations; and 4) use stand-level data to model forest management effects across large landscapes and over long time periods.

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温带蝙蝠对造林治疗的反应的定性综合——我们该何去何从？

大多数蝙蝠物种在其部分或全部生命周期中都依赖森林栖息、觅食和饮水。世界上许多森林都采用各种造林处理方法进行管理，在过去的 40 年中，研究人员研究了蝙蝠对这些处理方法的反应。我对有关温带食虫蝙蝠对林间造林处理的栖息和觅食反应的文献进行了定性综合，以确定哪些处理可能最适合保护并指导未来的研究。来自加拿大、美国、欧洲、澳大利亚和新西兰的 88 项研究符合审查标准。根据我的结果，觅食和通勤栖息地使用受森林结构和组成变化的影响小于栖息栖息地使用。减少杂乱同时保留覆盖层结构的中间轮换处理（例如，间伐和火灾）比去除所有或大部分覆盖层的处理具有更多中性和积极的影响。基于对本综述中 88 项研究的方法和假设的检查，我得出结论，未来的研究应该：1) 在使用声学探测器时，努力考虑对蝙蝠检测概率的处理效果；2) 检查蝙蝠对产季之外的造林处理的反应；3) 除栖息地利用外，还检查对造林处理的人口统计和生理反应，以充分了解这些处理对蝙蝠种群的影响；4) 使用林分级数据对大范围景观和长时间内的森林管理效果进行建模。