Use of Forested Habitat Adjacent to Highways by Northern Long-Eared Bats (and other Bats)

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• Alternative Title:
  Use of Forested Habitat Adjacent to Highways by Northern Long-Eared Bats
• Creators:
  Foster, Jeffrey ; Linden, Dan ; Blomberg, Erik ; Fisher-Phelps, Marina ; Ineson, Katherine
• Corporate Creators:
  University of New Hampshire
• Corporate Contributors:
  New England Transportation Consortium ; University of Vermont. Transportation Research Center ; United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Data collection
  • Environmental impacts
  • Habitat (Ecology)
  • Highways
  • Bats (Animals)
  • Northern long-eared bats
  • Species distribution
• Publication/ Report Number:
  NETC 15-1, NETCR117
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  New England ; United States
• Edition:
  Final report
• Corporate Publisher:
  New England Transportation Consortium
• Abstract:
  Bat populations throughout the Northeast have undergone precipitous declines in less than a decade due to the fungal disease white-nose syndrome, with Myotis septentrionalis (Northern long-eared bat, hereafter NLEB) suffering the most severe declines of any species. The overarching objective of the proposed research was to address several major gaps in the knowledge of NLEB distributions and activity as they relate to the use of habitat along or adjacent to highways in New England. The authors compiled all available survey data to assist with determining habitat use and the effects of roads on NLEB, with a focus on habitats of the New England region. Using cutting-edge presence-absence occupancy models, the authors determined that NLEB distributions change spatially across New England but did not find a strong relationship between their distribution and highway or other landscape features.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/64210/dot_64210_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.04 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:ad51725214589a6be331f91bb8a2bc274323cc6328d2b93011185dfd4ce86f00