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Income-driven differences between urban neighborhoods shape prey availability and bat foraging activity.
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2025-12-03
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Income-driven differences across urban neighborhoods have the potential to impact habitat quality and influence both invertebrate and bat communities. In this study we assessed whether income-driven differences in Fort Worth, Texas, shape invertebrate prey availability and bat foraging activity. We found that total invertebrate abundance was greater in low-income neighborhoods, while invertebrate diversity was greater in high-income neighborhoods. Bat activity and foraging, however, potentially did not vary with income. These results indicate that income-driven landscape practices affect prey communities, but this, in turn, did not directly influence bat activity. Instead, factors such as habitat connectivity, roost availability, and other anthropogenic disturbances may affect bat abundance and distribution in urban areas. Therefore, further research is needed to determine what factors in urban areas influence bat activity.
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Environmental and Sustainability Sciences