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Book Biology of Bats in Douglas fir Forests

Download or read book Biology of Bats in Douglas fir Forests written by Robin E. Christy and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Biology of Bats in Douglas fir Forests

Download or read book Biology of Bats in Douglas fir Forests written by Robin E. Christy and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Biology of Bats in Douglas fir Forests

Download or read book Biology of Bats in Douglas fir Forests written by U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. Forest Service and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Conservation Assessments for Five Forest Bat Species in the Eastern United States

Download or read book Conservation Assessments for Five Forest Bat Species in the Eastern United States written by Frank Richard Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Biology of Bats

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  • Author : William A. Wimsatt
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1970
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 686 pages

Download or read book Biology of Bats written by William A. Wimsatt and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sampling Methods for Bats

Download or read book Sampling Methods for Bats written by Donald W. Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bats

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  • Author : James S. Findley
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1995-01-26
  • ISBN : 9780521479561
  • Pages : 188 pages

Download or read book Bats written by James S. Findley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-26 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extensive scientific study of bats suggests that they are long-lived, slowly reproducing animals adapted to relatively stable environments. As such they might be expected to exist in communities heavily influenced by biotic interactions. This book begins with an overview of bat biology, including their systematic diversity and methodological problems in bat research. This is followed by examples of local bat community surveys from the major biogeographic regions. The evidence bearing upon resource limitation and competition in bats is reviewed. Then patterns in species richness, taxonomic, packing, biomass, numerical density, trophic and morphological diversity are described. The relevance of these to the nature of bat communities is examined. Major habitats and their histories are shown to be powerful predictors of important aspects of bat community structure.

Book Bats in Forests

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  • Author : Michael J. Lacki
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Release : 2007-05-11
  • ISBN : 080189168X
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book Bats in Forests written by Michael J. Lacki and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-05-11 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although bats are often thought of as cave dwellers, many species depend on forests for all or part of the year. Of the 45 species of bats in North America, more than half depend on forests, using the bark of trees, tree cavities, or canopy foliage as roosting sites. Over the past two decades it has become increasingly clear that bat conservation and management are strongly linked to the health of forests within their range. Initially driven by concern for endangered species—the Indiana bat, for example—forest ecologists, timber managers, government agencies, and conservation organizations have been altering management plans and silvicultural practices to better accommodate bat species. Bats in Forests presents the work of a variety of experts who address many aspects of the ecology and conservation of bats. The chapter authors describe bat behavior, including the selection of roosts, foraging patterns, and seasonal migration as they relate to forests. They also discuss forest management and its influence on bat habitat. Both public lands and privately owned forests are considered, as well as techniques for monitoring bat populations and activity. The important role bats play in the ecology of forests—from control of insects to nutrient recycling—is revealed by a number of authors. Bat ecologists, bat conservationists, forest ecologists, and forest managers will find in this book an indispensable synthesis of the topics that concern them.

Book Ecology of Bats

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  • Author : T.H. Kunz
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 1982-10-31
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 456 pages

Download or read book Ecology of Bats written by T.H. Kunz and published by Springer. This book was released on 1982-10-31 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among living vertebrates bats and birds are unique in their ability to fly, and it is this common feature that sets them apart ecologically from other groups. Bats are in some ways the noctumal equivalents of birds, having evolved and radiated into a diversity of forms to fill many of the same niches. The evolution of flight and echolocation in bats was undoubtedly a prime mover in the diversification of feeding and roosting habits, reproductive strategies, and social behaviors. Bats have successfully colonized almost every continential region on earth (except Antarctica), as weIl as many oceanic islands and archipelagos. They comprise the second largest order of mammals (next to rodents) in number of species and probably exceed all other such groups in overall abundance. Bats exhibit a dietary diversity (including insects, fruits, leaves, flowers, nectar and pollen, fish. other vertebrates, and blood) unparalleled among other living mammals. Their reproductive pattems range from seasonal monestry to polyestry, and mating systems inelude promiscuity, monogamy, and polygyny. The vast majority of what we know about the ecology of bats is derived from studies of only a few of the approximately 850 species, yet in the past two decades studies on bats have escalated to a level where many important empirical pattems and processes have been identified. This knowledge has strengthened our understanding of ecological relationships and encouraged hypothesis testing rather than perpetuated a catalog of miscellaneous observations.

Book Bats

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  • Author : M. Brock Fenton
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 022606512X
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book Bats written by M. Brock Fenton and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The night skies are filled with over 1200 species of bats, which comprise twenty-two percent of all living mammals, and have a total population in the billions. Our lives and theirs are intimately linkedin ecological systems in which they are key pollinators, and in human health, as vectors of disease. Their abilities to echolocate have inspired incredible biotechnology. And yet there is no up to date book that conveys an ecological and economic significance of bats, which is as vast as their incredible wingspans. This book is a tour of what is currently known about the biology of bats. It answers questions about where bats live; what they eat; why some bats hibernate and others migrate; why some live alone and others form large roosting aggregations, sometimes numbering in the millions; whether bats have their evolutionary roots with primates or some other mammalian group; how flight has influenced bat mating behavior; how bats use different sensory systems, from olfaction to hearing, to detect and capture prey; how and when bats reproduce and care for their young; what diseases they carry; why bats get bad press; and what we can do to protect and preserve these amazing mammals for future generations to benefit from and enjoy. The authors have studied bats the world over, from the petrified forests of Arizona to the rainforests of French Guiana, from Mayan ruins in Belize to the Hell Creek Badlands of Montana, from Tobago to Thailand. There are no better guides to echolocate generalists and specialists alike through the wonders of the bat world."

Book The Biology and Conservation of Australasian Bats

Download or read book The Biology and Conservation of Australasian Bats written by Bradley Law and published by Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. This book was released on 2011 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the Biology and Conservation of Australasian Bats, follows from the successful 3-day forum of the same name held in April 2007 at the Australian Museum. The forum was organised jointly by the Royal Zoological Society of NSW and the Australasian Bat Society.

Book Presence  Relative Abundance  and Resource Selection of Bats in Managed Forest Landscapes in Western Oregon

Download or read book Presence Relative Abundance and Resource Selection of Bats in Managed Forest Landscapes in Western Oregon written by Edward B. Arnett and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I studied presence, relative abundance, and resource selection of bats in managed Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) forests in western Oregon from May through September, 1999-2001. Species richness was not related to elevation, density of snags, or length of edge or perennial streams in sampled landscapes. I captured bats more frequently in landscapes with moderate to high densities of snags and sex ratios were skewed toward males, especially in snag-rich landscapes at higher elevations. Elevation generally was negatively related to captures of female bats. I determined use of day roosts by female and male long-eared myotis (Myotis evotis), female long-legged myotis (Myotis volans), and female big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus). Relative to random structures, all three species used snags that had less canopy closure, more adjacent snags, and were closer to the edge of the stand. Diameter of snags was an important variable differentiating roost and random snags used by big brown bats and long-legged myotis. I found considerable overlap in structural and contextual characteristics of snags and trees used as roosts among the three species of bats. My findings provide evidence that females of sympatric species of bats may alter their choices of roosts when co-existing in landscapes with low densities of snags. Female and male long-eared myotis primarily used stumps and down logs in landscapes with low densities of snags, while using snags more frequently in landscapes with high snag densities. I found that tree species and structural characteristics of snags, stumps, and logs used as roosts generally were similar between female and male long-eared myotis and that context variables (e.g., elevation) best differentiated use of structures between sexes. Failure to account for differences in use of roosts among species, between sexes, and among landscapes with varied conditions could lead to erroneous conclusions and ineffective or inappropriate management recommendations. Elevational gradients and densities of snags are important factors to consider when developing snag and green tree retention strategies for bats in this region. Forest management practices that retain and create large snags in landscapes currently with low densities of snags would benefit female bats, especially at lower elevations.

Book Preliminary Survey of the Bats of the Deerlodge National Forest Montana

Download or read book Preliminary Survey of the Bats of the Deerlodge National Forest Montana written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bat Inventory and Monitoring Program Development for Mount Rainier National Park  Washington

Download or read book Bat Inventory and Monitoring Program Development for Mount Rainier National Park Washington written by National Park Service and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the bats in the Pacific Northwest have a strong association with lower-elevation, old-growth forests that is believed to be the result of bats selecting roosts located in the cracks, peeling bark, and cavities of snags and damaged trees predominantly found in these older forests (Thomas and West 1991). However, in most areas in this region, such old-growth stands have been harvested, being replaced with young, structurally simplified Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) stands. Mount Rainier National Park represents the largest area of late-successional forest in the Cascade Range of southern Washington (see map), and likely serves as an important refugium for many of these bat species.

Book Biology of Bats of the New World Family Phyllostomatidae

Download or read book Biology of Bats of the New World Family Phyllostomatidae written by Robert J. Baker and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book About Bats

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  • Author : Bob H. Slaughter
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1970
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 339 pages

Download or read book About Bats written by Bob H. Slaughter and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bats

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  • Author : Jakob L. Zupan
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9781620810392
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Bats written by Jakob L. Zupan and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: