Location of the Biodiversity Exploratory Schorfheide-Chorin in Germany and a map of the Biosphere Reserve Schorfheide-Chorin.

<p>Dark grey areas indicate forest patches, light grey areas and white areas indicate agricultural fields or grassland areas. Black circles indicate the location of the 50 permanent recording sites in grassland where acoustical monitoring of bats took place.</p

Bat activity on 50 grassland plots in relation to forest extent in the 200m buffer zone throughout five sampling months.

<p>n.s = non significant, P < 0.05 *, P < 0.001 = ***</p

Analysis of deviance table, listing the overall results of the Poisson distributed generalized linear mixed effect models (GLMM) investigating the seasonal importance of forest areas near grassland recording sites for bat species richness and activity.

<p><i>n</i>.<i>s</i> = non significant</p><p>P < 0.1.</p><p><i>P</i> < 0.05 *</p><p><i>P</i><0.01 = **</p><p><i>P</i><0.001 = ***</p><p>Analysis of deviance table, listing the overall results of the Poisson distributed generalized linear mixed effect models (GLMM) investigating the seasonal importance of forest areas near grassland recording sites for bat species richness and activity.</p

Location of the Biodiversity Exploratory Schorfheide-Chorin in Germany and a map of the Biosphere Reserve Schorfheide-Chorin.

<p>Dark grey areas indicate forest patches, light grey areas and white areas indicate agricultural fields or grassland areas. Black circles indicate the location of the 50 permanent recording sites in grassland where acoustical monitoring of bats took place.</p

Ordination of the 50 different sampling plots in an NMDS space based on Bray-Curtis dissimilarity of bat species composition (weighted by the relative intensity of habitat use).

<p>Points represent the placement of plots and asterisks represent the placement of species within multidimensional space. The landscape variables explaining differences in species composition between plots are represented as vectors and were fitted using the function envfit (R-package vegan, [<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0134443#pone.0134443.ref050" target="_blank">50</a>]). Significantly important landscape variables have solid lines, the others have dashed lines.</p