UCBN Bat Monitoring
UCBN. UCBN Bat Monitoring. 2015. National Park Service
Bats are a beneficial and essential part of regional ecosystems. They eat night-flying insects, pollinate plants (including many commercial species), and help disperse seeds. Their conservation status, however, is uncertain. Several emerging threats may cause bat numbers to decline. The westward advance of the disease known as white-nose syndrome, and the rapidly expanding number of wind energy turbines, (which kill many bats in some areas of the country), are both affecting bat populations. Bats are long-lived and tend to use the same feeding and roosting sites over time, which make them well-suited for long-term monitoring. Changes in bat species presence and activity patterns at lava tube caves in Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve will serve as good indicators of environmental change and will help guide park cave management decisions. Visitors in lava tube caves may inadvertently lead to the introduction of the fungus, Geomyces destructans, that causes white-nose syndrome. Monitoring bat in caves will help us with early detection of the disease in the region. Monitoring Objectives Estimate status and trend of bat use in safely accessible lava tube caves in Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve during winter hibernation.
- Type
- Project
- Authors
- UCBN
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Keywords
- bats, Geomyces destructans, white-nose syndrome
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | Focal Species or Communities | Mammals
Program
Products
- A Practical Samping Design for Acoustic Surveys of Bats
- Assessing the status and trend of bat populations across broad geographic regions with dynamic distribution models
- Bat hibernacula surveys in Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve: 2012-2013 status report
- Bat hibernacula surveys in Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve: 2014 status report
- A plan for the North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat)
- Establishing conservation baselines with dynamic distribution models for bat populations facing imminent decline
- Bat hibernacula surveys in Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve: 2015 status report
- Bat hibernacula surveys in Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve: 2016 status report
- Protocol for surveying bat use of lava tube caves during winter in Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve: Standard operating procedures
- Protocol for surveying bat use of lava tube caves during winter in Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve: Version 1.0
- Blank Version of the UCBN Bat Hibernacula Monitoring 2016 MS Access Database FE/BE
- Bat hibernacula surveys in Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve: 2017 status report
- Evidence of region-wide bat population decline from long-term monitoring and Bayesian occupancy models with empirically informed priors
- Statistical power of dynamic occupancy models to identify temporal change: informing the North American Bat Monitoring Program
- North American Bat Monitoring Program Regional Protocol for Surveying with Stationary Deployments of Echolocation Recording Devices, Pacific Northwest Complete Protocol Package
- North American Bat Monitoring Program regional protocol for surveying with stationary deployments of echolocation recording devices: Narrative Version 1.0, Pacific Northwestern US
- Audible bats provide opportunities for citizen scientists
- North American Bat monitoring activities coordinated by the Northwestern Bat Hub at Oregon State University-Cascades
- Protocol implementation plan for national parks in the Pacific Northwest, North American Bat Monitoring Program for surveying summertime bat occurrence with stationary deployments of echolocation recording devices: Version 1.0
- Bats and Climate Change
- Bat Monitoring: Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve
- Bat hibernacula surveys: Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve
- Bat hibernacula surveys: Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve