Bat Inventory of Four Eastern Rivers and Mountains Network National Parks
Gates JE and Johnson JB. 2007. Bat Inventory of Four Eastern Rivers and Mountains Network National Parks. Technical Report NPS/NER/NRTR—2007/098. United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
We documented six common bat species in all four Eastern Rivers and Mountains Network(ERMN) park units that we inventoried. The most common species were big brown bat(Eptesicus fuscus), little brown myotis (Myotis lucifugus), and northern myotis (M.septentrionalis); similar to what has been documented in other areas of the AppalachianMountains. At least five of the species used the parks for roosting and foraging habitat and forraising young. The mosaic of forests, fields, and waterways provide a wide variety of habitatconditions for the diversity of bat species occurring among the parks. We did not capture thePennsylvania state-threatened eastern small-footed myotis (Myotis leibii) or the federallyendangered Indiana myotis (M. sodalis).
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Gates, J.; Johnson, Joshua
- Date of Issue
- 2007-11
- Publisher
- United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service
- Units
- ALPO , ERMN , FONE , FRHI , JOFL
- Keywords
- Abundance (Biodiversity), Acoustic Monitoring, Bat, Distribution (Biodiversity), Inventory, Mammals, Mist Netting, Presence (Biodiversity)
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | Focal Species or Communities | Mammals