Mid-Atlantic Big Brown and Eastern Red Bats: Relationships between Acoustic Activity and Reproductive Phenology

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dc.contributor.authorDeeley, Sabrinaen
dc.contributor.authorFord, W. Marken
dc.contributor.authorKalen, Nicholas J.en
dc.contributor.authorFreeze, Samuel R.en
dc.contributor.authorSt. Germain, Michaelen
dc.contributor.authorMuthersbaugh, Michaelen
dc.contributor.authorBarr, Elaineen
dc.contributor.authorKniowski, Andrewen
dc.contributor.authorSilvis, Alexanderen
dc.contributor.authorDe La Cruz, Jesseen
dc.coverage.countryUnited Statesen
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-22T12:29:44Zen
dc.date.available2022-04-22T12:29:44Zen
dc.date.issued2022-04-21en
dc.date.updated2022-04-21T21:03:42Zen
dc.description.abstractAcoustic data are often used to describe bat activity, including habitat use within the summer reproductive period. These data inform management activities that potentially impact bats, currently a taxa of high conservation concern. To understand the relationship between acoustic and reproductive timing, we sampled big brown bats (<i>Eptesicus fuscus</i>) and eastern red bats (<i>Lasiurus borealis</i>) on 482 mist-netting and 35,410 passive acoustic sampling nights within the District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia, 2015-2018. We documented the proportion of female, pregnant, lactating, and juvenile big brown and eastern red bats within each mist-net sampling event and calculated locally estimated non-parametric scatterplot smoothing (LOESS) lines for each reproductive and acoustic dataset. We compared the peak in acoustic activity with the peaks of each reproductive condition. We determined that the highest levels of acoustic activity within the maternity season were most associated with the period wherein we captured the highest proportions of lactating bats, not juvenile bats, as often assumed.en
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dc.identifier.citationDeeley, S.; Ford, W.M.; Kalen, N.J.; Freeze, S.R.; St. Germain, M.; Muthersbaugh, M.; Barr, E.; Kniowski, A.; Silvis, A.; De La Cruz, J. Mid-Atlantic Big Brown and Eastern Red Bats: Relationships between Acoustic Activity and Reproductive Phenology. Diversity 2022, 14, 319.en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3390/d14050319en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/109732en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherMDPIen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectacoustic samplingen
dc.subjectbatsen
dc.subjectbig brown batsen
dc.subjecteastern red batsen
dc.subjectEptesicus fuscusen
dc.subjectLasiurus borealisen
dc.subjectmid-Atlanticen
dc.subjectmigrationen
dc.subjectreproductionen
dc.titleMid-Atlantic Big Brown and Eastern Red Bats: Relationships between Acoustic Activity and Reproductive Phenologyen
dc.title.serialDiversityen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
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