Assessing fatality minimization for hoary bats amid continued wind energy development

NA Friedenberg, WF Frick - Biological Conservation, 2021 - Elsevier
Wind energy is an important sector of the renewable energy market. Observations of bat
fatalities at wind farms raise concern about impacts to biodiversity, particularly amid …

Estimating the movements of terrestrial animal populations using broad-scale occurrence data

SR Supp, G Bohrer, J Fieberg, FA La Sorte - Movement Ecology, 2021 - Springer
As human and automated sensor networks collect increasingly massive volumes of animal
observations, new opportunities have arisen to use these data to infer or track species …

COULD WHITE-NOSE SYNDROME MANIFEST DIFFERENTLY IN MYOTIS LUCIFUGUS IN WESTERN VERSUS EASTERN REGIONS OF NORTH AMERICA? A …

K Blejwas, L Beard, J Buchanan… - The Journal of …, 2023 - meridian.allenpress.com
White-nose syndrome (WNS) has notably affected the abundance of Myotis lucifugus (little
brown myotis) in North America. Thus far, substantial mortality has been restricted to the …

The state of the bats in North America

AM Adams, LA Trujillo, CJ Campbell… - Annals of the New …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The world's rich diversity of bats supports healthy ecosystems and important ecosystem
services. Maintaining healthy biological systems requires prompt identification of threats to …

Population dynamics of little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus) at summer roosts: Apparent survival, fidelity, abundance, and the influence of winter conditions

RA Schorr, JL Siemers - Ecology and Evolution, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
White‐nose syndrome (WNS) has caused the death of millions of bats, but the impacts have
been more difficult to identify in western North America. Understanding how WNS, or other …

[HTML][HTML] Predator-prey relationship between urban bats and insects impacted by both artificial light at night and spatial clutter

H Li, KT Wilkins - Biology, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Artificial light at night provides convenience and a perception of safety for
humans. However, it is an environmental pollutant to many wildlife species. We found that in …

Whombat: An open‐source audio annotation tool for machine learning assisted bioacoustics

S Martínez Balvanera, O Mac Aodha… - Methods in Ecology …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Automated analysis of bioacoustic recordings using machine learning (ML) methods has the
potential to greatly scale biodiversity monitoring efforts. The use of ML for high‐stakes …

Conserving bats and their foraging habitats

WF Frick, LA de Wit, A Ibarra, K Lear… - A natural history of bat …, 2024 - Elsevier
Bat foraging is defined by a range of species interactions, including predator–prey dynamics
through consumption of arthropod and vertebrate prey, as well as the mutualisms between …

NABat ML: Utilizing deep learning to enable crowdsourced development of automated, scalable solutions for documenting North American bat populations

A Khalighifar, BS Gotthold, E Adams… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Bats play crucial ecological roles and provide valuable ecosystem services, yet many
populations face serious threats from various ecological disturbances. The North American …

Insectivorous bat occupancy is mediated by drought and agricultural land use in a highly modified ecoregion

TN Smith, BJ Furnas, MD Nelson… - Diversity and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aim California's Central Valley, one of the most productive agricultural regions
worldwide, is home to a high number of at‐risk species due to habitat conversion. Amplifying …