Distribution of Northern Long-eared Bat Summer Habitat on the Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia

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dc.contributor.authorDe La Cruz, Jesse L.en
dc.contributor.authorFord, W. Marken
dc.contributor.authorJones, Shaneen
dc.contributor.authorJohnson, Joshua B.en
dc.contributor.authorSilvis, Alexanderen
dc.coverage.countryUnited Statesen
dc.coverage.stateWest Virginiaen
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-20T13:47:23Zen
dc.date.available2023-04-20T13:47:23Zen
dc.date.issued2023-03en
dc.description.abstractSpecies distribution models enable resource managers to avoid and mitigate impacts to, or enhance habitat of, target species at the landscape level. Persistent declines of northern long-eared bats (Myotis septentrionalis) due to white-nose syndrome have made acquisition of contemporary data difficult. Therefore, use of legacy data may be necessary for creation of species distribution models. We used historical roost and capture records, both individually and in combination, to assess the distribution and availability of northern long-eared bat habitat across the 670,000-ha Monongahela National Forest (MNF), West Virginia, USA. We created random forest presence/pseudo-absence models to examine influences of various biotic and abiotic predictors on both roosting and foraging presence locations of northern long-eared bats. Predicted northern long-eared bat habitat was abundant (43.1% of the MNF) and widely dispersed. Generally, all models suggested that northern long-eared bat habitat was characterized by interior forests containing linear edge features. We observed only 3.4% spatial overlap of habitat based on complete model agreement, but 38.5% of all habitat areas resulted from agreement between capture-only and combination models. Our models provide important assessments of habitat availability necessary for addressing state and federal conservation requirements on the MNF and adjacent eastern West Virginia mountains.en
dc.description.sponsorshipUSFS: 19-11092100-029en
dc.description.versionPublished versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/114593en
dc.identifier.urlhttps://seafwa.org/journal/2023/distribution-northern-long-eared-bat-summer-habitat-monongahela-national-forest-westen
dc.identifier.volume10en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.rightsPublic Domain (U.S.)en
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/en
dc.subjectMyotis septentrionalisen
dc.subjectrandom foresten
dc.subjectspecies distribution modelen
dc.titleDistribution of Northern Long-eared Bat Summer Habitat on the Monongahela National Forest, West Virginiaen
dc.title.serialJournal of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agenciesen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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