Unique Land Cover Classification to Assess Day-Roost Habitat Selection of Northern Long-Eared Bats on the Coastal Plain of North Carolina, USA

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dc.contributor.authorDe La Cruz, Jesse L.en
dc.contributor.authorTrue, Michael C.en
dc.contributor.authorTaylor, Hilaen
dc.contributor.authorBrown, Dorothy C.en
dc.contributor.authorFord, W. Marken
dc.coverage.countryUnited Statesen
dc.coverage.stateNorth Carolinaen
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-26T17:11:06Zen
dc.date.available2022-05-26T17:11:06Zen
dc.date.issued2022-05-19en
dc.description.abstractReproductively successful and over-wintering populations of the endangered northern longeared bat (Myotis septentrionalis) have recently been discovered on the Coastal Plain of North Carolina. Empirical data on resource selection within the region is limited, likely hindering management of these coastal forests. Our objectives were to determine roosting home range size, selection of day-roost tree species, second- and third-order roosting habitat selection, and to quantify the overall availability of resources in the surrounding landscape. We found core and peripheral roosting home range estimates were large, yet similar to observations from other areas of contiguous forests. Prior to juvenile volancy, female northern long-eared bats appear to select red maple (Acer rubrum), water ash (Fraxinus caroliniana), and loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) as day-roosts, but then use sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua), swamp bay (Persea palustris), and water tupelo (Nyssa aquatica) after juvenile volancy. At the second-order spatial scale, roosting home ranges were associated with woody wetlands farther from anthropogenic development and open water. However, within the third-order scale, northern long-eared bats were associated with undeveloped woody wetlands and upland forests, areas containing shorter trees and occurring proximal to open water. Peripheral and core areas were predicted to comprise approximately 20% of the local landscape. Our results show that complex and large tracts of woody wetlands juxtaposed with upland forests in this part of the Coastal Plain may be important for northern long-eared bats locally, results largely consistent with species management efforts in eastern North America.en
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dc.identifier.citationDe La Cruz, J.L.; True, M.C.; Taylor, H.; Brown, D.C.; Ford, W.M. Unique Land Cover Classification to Assess Day-Roost Habitat Selection of Northern Long-Eared Bats on the Coastal Plain of North Carolina, USA. Forests 2022, 13, 792.en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3390/f13050792en
dc.identifier.issue13en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/110342en
dc.identifier.volume2022en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectroosting home rangeen
dc.subjectkernel densityen
dc.subjectland cover classificationen
dc.subjectmultinomial regressionen
dc.subjectMyotis septentrionalisen
dc.subjectnorthern long-eared baten
dc.subjectrandom foresten
dc.subjectroosting habitaten
dc.subjectNorth Carolinaen
dc.titleUnique Land Cover Classification to Assess Day-Roost Habitat Selection of Northern Long-Eared Bats on the Coastal Plain of North Carolina, USAen
dc.title.serialForestsen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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