Forest roosting bats use a variety of ephemeral roosts such as snags and declining live trees. Although conservation of summer maternity habitat is considered critical for forest-roosting bats, bat response to roost loss still is poorly understood. To address this, we monitored 3 northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis) maternity colonies on Fort Knox Military Reservation, Kentucky, USA...

We developed and characterized 15 microsatellite markers for Rafinesque's big-eared bat, Corynorhinus rafinesquii. In a population from Tennessee, the number of alleles per locus ranged from three to 13 and observed heterozygosities were 0.35 to 0.97 per locus. These loci will provide appropriate variability for estimation of population connectivity, demographic parameters, and genetic diversit...

ABSTRACT Understanding the ecological impacts of roads on mammals requires periodic monitoring roads, and identification both temporal spatial distribution roadkills (i.e., roadkill hotspots). The main aim study was to identify most roadkilled evaluate in RJ-122, a highway that crosses threaten lowland Atlantic Forest state Rio de Janeiro, southeast Brazil. Between October 2017 January 2020, an...

Bats are important bio-indicators of ecosystem health and provide a number services. White-nose Syndrome habitat loss have led to the decline many bat species in eastern North America, including federally threatened northern long-eared bat, Myotis septentrionalis. was only recently found Nebraska, which lies on western extent this geographic range. To better understand how forest-dependent pers...

The two sibling mouse-eared bats, Myotis myotis and M. blythii, cope with similar orientation tasks, but separate their trophic niche by hunting in species-specific foraging microhabitats. Previous work has shown that both species rely largely on passive listening to detect and glean prey from substrates, and studies on other bat species have suggested that echolocation is ;switched off' during...