Effects of historic wildfire and prescribed fire on site occupancy of bats in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, USA

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dc.contributor.authorAustin, Lauren V.en
dc.contributor.authorSilvis, Alexanderen
dc.contributor.authorFord, W. Marken
dc.contributor.authorPowers, Karen E.en
dc.contributor.departmentFish and Wildlife Conservationen
dc.coverage.stateVirginiaen
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-23T14:14:21Zen
dc.date.available2021-02-23T14:14:21Zen
dc.date.issued2020-08en
dc.description.abstractGiven the likelihood of regional extirpation of several once-common bat species in eastern North America from white-nose syndrome, it is critical that the impacts of forest management activities, such as prescribed fire, are known in order to minimize potentially additive negative effects on bat populations. Historic wildfires may offer a suitable surrogate to assess long-term burn impacts on bats for planning, implementing and assessing burn programs. To examine the effects of historic fire on bats, we sampled bat activities at 24 transect locations in burned and unburned forest stands in the central Appalachian Mountains of Shenandoah National Park (SNP), Virginia, USA. There was limited evidence of positive fire effects over time on hoary bats (Lasiurus cinereusBeauvois) and big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscusBeauvois) occupancy. Overall, there were few or mostly equivocal relationships of bat occupancy relative to burn conditions or time since fire in SNP across species using a false-positive occupancy approach. Our results suggest that fire does not strongly affect bat site occupancy short- or long-term in the central Appalachians.en
dc.description.adminPublic domain – authored by a U.S. government employeeen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s11676-019-00923-yen
dc.identifier.eissn1993-0607en
dc.identifier.issn1007-662Xen
dc.identifier.issue4en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/102431en
dc.identifier.volume31en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.rightsPublic Domainen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/en
dc.subjectAppalachian mountainsen
dc.subjectBatsen
dc.subjectFalse-positive occupancyen
dc.subjectPrescribed fireen
dc.subjectWildfireen
dc.titleEffects of historic wildfire and prescribed fire on site occupancy of bats in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, USAen
dc.title.serialJournal of Forestry Researchen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
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