It was a small sensation: When the bat population in the city of Linz was researched in 2022 and 2023, the scientists were able to demonstrate the Alpine bat for the first time. Until then, Upper Austria was the only federal state where this species could not yet be proven. However, it had already been expected a little, as Guido Reiter, head of the coordination center for bat protection and research in Austria (Kffö), says. Because climate change also changes the fauna and flora rapidly. Long -established species become less or disappear, new hikes. This also applies to bats.
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Increase in biodiversity
In addition to the alpine bat, the winemakers of the climate changes in Linz are also the bats. that feels comfortable in the warmer climate. But there are also losers, in Linz the dwarf bat is displaced by the newcomers. Overall, however, the biodiversity has increased, as the bat study supported by the climate fund showed. In addition to the climate changes, this is also due to improved detection methods – the last study has been 20 years ago. 19 of the species that are currently occurring in Austria could be detected in Linz. “Biodiversity is always a profit for a city, because this ensures stable environmental conditions,” explains Gudrun Fuß, head of the natural history station of the city of Linz in an OÖN conversation.
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