Bat Habitat Ecology Using Remote Acoustical Detectors at the Army National Guard Maneuver Training Center - Fort Pickett, Blackstone, Virginia

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dc.contributor.authorSt Germain, Michael J.en
dc.contributor.committeechairKelly, Marcella J.en
dc.contributor.committeememberStauffer, Dean F.en
dc.contributor.committeememberFord, W. Marken
dc.contributor.departmentFisheries and Wildlife Sciencesen
dc.coverage.stateVirginiaen
dc.date.accessioned2017-04-04T19:49:06Zen
dc.date.adate2012-06-12en
dc.date.available2017-04-04T19:49:06Zen
dc.date.issued2012-04-25en
dc.date.rdate2016-10-18en
dc.date.sdate2012-05-16en
dc.description.abstractBats occupy diverse and unique niches and are regarded as important components in maintaining ecosystem health. They are major consumers of nocturnal insects, serve as pollinators, seed disperser, and provide important economic benefits as consumers of agricultural and forest pest insects. Bats have been proposed as good indicators of the integrity of natural communities because they integrate a number of resource attributes and may show population declines quickly if a resource attribute is missing. Establishing community- and population-level data, and understanding species interactions is especially important in changing landscapes and for species whose populations levels are threatened by outside factors of anthropomorphic disturbance from hibernacular visitation to energy production and fungal pathogens. For these reasons I have set out to establish habitat use patterns, detection probabilities, spatial and temporal occupancy, and investigate species interactions. This thesis is broken down into three distinct chapters each intended to be a stand-alone document. The first establishes the basic ecology from natural history accounts, provides an overview of the various sampling strategies, and gives a comprehensive description of the study area. The seconds sets out to identify the factors influencing detection probabilities and occupancy of six sympatric bats species and provide insight into habitat use patterns. The third examines spatial and temporal activity patterns and investigates species interactions. This study can provide understanding into the secretive and poorly understood patterns of free flying bats across the landscape. It can also deliver useful information to land managers regarding potential changes in landscape practices for the conservation of bat species.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.identifier.otheretd-05162012-122931en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05162012-122931/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/76770en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjecttwo species modelingen
dc.subjecttemporal overlappingen
dc.subjectspatial co-occurrenceen
dc.subjectspecies interaction factoren
dc.subjectproportion of area occupieden
dc.subjectPerimyotis subflavusen
dc.subjectoccupancyen
dc.subjectNycticeius humeralisen
dc.subjectMyotis septentrionalisen
dc.subjectMyotis lucifugusen
dc.subjectmilitary landsen
dc.subjectLasiurus borealisen
dc.subjectEptesicus fuscusen
dc.subjectdetection probabilityen
dc.subjectAnaBaten
dc.subjectactivity indexen
dc.titleBat Habitat Ecology Using Remote Acoustical Detectors at the Army National Guard Maneuver Training Center - Fort Pickett, Blackstone, Virginiaen
dc.typeThesisen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
thesis.degree.disciplineFisheries and Wildlife Sciencesen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen

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