{"id":1602,"date":"2016-03-15T14:46:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T21:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/?p=1602"},"modified":"2016-12-01T21:31:50","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T05:31:50","slug":"habitat-diversity-bat-activity-in-vineyards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/habitat-diversity-bat-activity-in-vineyards\/","title":{"rendered":"Habitat diversity &#038; bat activity in vineyards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1603\" style=\"width: 184px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/rmk_vineyard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1603\" class=\" wp-image-1603\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/rmk_vineyard-577x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Rochelle setting up bat acoustic monitoring equipment in a Napa Vineyard\" width=\"174\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1603\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rochelle setting up bat acoustic monitoring equipment in a Napa Vineyard<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For her undergraduate honors thesis, Rochelle studied bat\u00a0activity in North Coast vineyards. Using acoustic equipment, she tested whether local or landscape-scale habitat diversity influenced vineyard bat activity. Rochelle and her colleagues found that local habitat diversity significantly increased overall bat activity, especially for\u00a0two of the most common bat species detected (the Yuma myotis &amp; Big brown bat).<\/p>\n<p>These species are also known to consume agricultural pests. Thus, promoting their activity in agricultural landscape will not only benefit bats, but may also help suppress agricultural pests. Rochelle&#8217;s\u00a0research was <a href=\"http:\/\/authors.elsevier.com\/a\/1SgvlcA-IONP8\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> last week in the journal\u00a0<em>Agriculture, Ecosystems, and the Environment<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For her undergraduate honors thesis, Rochelle studied bat\u00a0activity in North Coast vineyards. Using acoustic equipment, she tested whether local or landscape-scale habitat diversity influenced vineyard bat activity. Rochelle and her colleagues found that local habitat diversity significantly increased overall bat activity, especially for\u00a0two of the most common bat species detected (the Yuma myotis &amp; Big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1734,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions\/1734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}