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

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

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

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

Habitat selection by 16 radio-tracked bat individuals based on selection ratios (<b><i>w</i></b>_<b>i</b>) for five different land-cover types.

<p>Standard errors (SE) and Bonferroni’s confidence intervals are shown.</p><p>^a negative confidence limits have been replaced by 0.000 [<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0120535#pone.0120535.ref033" target="_blank">33</a>]</p><p>Habitat selection by 16 radio-tracked bat individuals based on selection ratios (<b><i>w</i></b>_<b>i</b>) for five different land-cover types.</p

Summary of the parameters proportion of degraded forest (Disturbance) and sampling day (Day) that were included in the Δ2 AIC_<b>c</b> model set, averaged over all subset models.

<p>Summary of the parameters proportion of degraded forest (Disturbance) and sampling day (Day) that were included in the Δ2 AIC_<b>c</b> model set, averaged over all subset models.</p

Scent choice data

All datafiles contain the time (in seconds) a mite (continuously numbered in the column "repeat"; the instar and sex can be found in the column "mite": f - adult female, m - adult male, l - larva, pn - protonymph, dn - deutonymph) spend in the respective sector of the olfactometer. The sectors with the respective treatments (extract of phoretic vectors or controls) can be found in the column headings. For all olfactometer experiments four sectors (with four scents) were used. Therefore, the tables from the dual choice experiments contain each two columns with the same header

Land-cover composition of focal foraging areas of 16 bat individuals.

<p>Bat IDs refer to <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0120535#pone.0120535.t001" target="_blank">table 1</a>. Near focus areas were located closer to the day roost. Far focus areas were visited by longer distance commutes. (a) averaged values of 11 bat individuals which foraged on a single focus area. n indicates the number of radio fixes.</p

Locations of the four sampled forest fragments in Northern Costa Rica.

<p>LP: Las Palmitas, Ro: El Roble, Ti: La Tirimbina, PA: Pozo Azul. <i>Grey</i> indicates forested areas, <i>white</i> indicates non-forest cover, <i>black</i> indicates water (except the fragments’ framing). Modified from [<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0120535#pone.0120535.ref065" target="_blank">65</a>].</p