Forest Succession and Maternity Day Roost Selection by Myotis septentrionalis in a Mesophytic Hardwood Forest

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dc.contributor.authorSilvis, Alexanderen
dc.contributor.authorFord, W. Marken
dc.contributor.authorBritzke, Eric R.en
dc.contributor.authorBeane, Nathan R.en
dc.contributor.authorJohnson, Joshua B.en
dc.contributor.departmentFish and Wildlife Conservationen
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-18T09:49:01Zen
dc.date.available2017-09-18T09:49:01Zen
dc.date.issued2012-09-20en
dc.date.updated2017-09-18T09:49:01Zen
dc.description.abstractConservation of summer maternity roosts is considered critical for bat management in North America, yet many aspects of the physical and environmental factors that drive roost selection are poorly understood. We tracked 58 female northern bats (Myotis septentrionalis) to 105 roost trees of 21 species on the Fort Knox military reservation in north-central Kentucky during the summer of 2011. Sassafras (Sassafras albidum) was used as a day roost more than expected based on forest stand-level availability and accounted for 48.6% of all observed day roosts. Using logistic regression and an information theoretic approach, we were unable to reliably differentiate between sassafras and other roost species or between day roosts used during different maternity periods using models representative of individual tree metrics, site metrics, topographic location, or combinations of these factors. For northern bats, we suggest that day-roost selection is not a function of differences between individual tree species per se, but rather of forest successional patterns, stand and tree structure. Present successional trajectories may not provide this particular selected structure again without management intervention, thereby suggesting that resource managers take a relatively long retrospective view to manage current and future forest conditions for bats.en
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dc.identifier.citationAlexander Silvis, W. Mark Ford, Eric R. Britzke, Nathan R. Beane, and Joshua B. Johnson, “Forest Succession and Maternity Day Roost Selection by Myotis septentrionalis in a Mesophytic Hardwood Forest,” International Journal of Forestry Research, vol. 2012, Article ID 148106, 8 pages, 2012. doi:10.1155/2012/148106en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1155/2012/148106en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/79002en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherHindawien
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.holderCopyright © 2012 Alexander Silvis et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.en
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.titleForest Succession and Maternity Day Roost Selection by Myotis septentrionalis in a Mesophytic Hardwood Foresten
dc.title.serialInternational Journal of Forestry Researchen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
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