Temporal mismatches in flight activity patterns between Pipistrellus kuhlii and Prays oleae in Mediterranean olive farms: Implications for biocontrol services potential

Biocontrol services are widely recognized as providing key incentives for bat conservation. However, we have virtually no information on whether and how disruptions in bat-mediated biocontrol services are driven by mismatches between the temporal activity patterns of insectivorous bats and insect pests.
2. We investigated the temporal relationship between the nightly activity patterns of the common pipistrelle bat (Pipistrellus kuhlii) and the olive fruit moth (Prays oleae). Temporal mismatches between species pairs were estimated as the time difference (expressed as a percentage of the night) at which P. kuhlii and P. oleae reached 50% of their abundance.
The study was carried out during spring, summer, and fall between 2017 and 2019 in 60 olive farms representing increasing levels of structural simplification (as a surrogate of agricultural intensification). Olive farms were classified as exhibiting high (i.e., HIGH olive farms; n = 27), intermediate (MID; n = 18), and low (LOW; n = ..., , , # Temporal mismatches in flight activity patterns between Pipistrellus kuhlii and Prays oleae in Mediterranean olive farms: Implications for biocontrol services potential

This dataset was used to evaluate temporal mismatches in flight activity patterns between *Pipistrellus kuhlii* and *Prays oleae*

## Description of the data and file structure

This is a structured dataset with the following variables:

* site: code number of the sites sampled
* farm: code number of the farm to which the sites belong
* season: sampling season with the following codes; 1-spring, 2-summer, 3-autumn
* struct_complexity: structural complexity of the sample sites with the following codes; 1-low complexity, 2-intermediate complexity, 3-high complexity
* olive cover: percentage of olive grove cover in a 1km radius from the sampling points
* forest cover: percentage of forest cover in a 1km radius from the sampling points
* prays: number of captured Prays oleae
* accum50: variable indicatin...