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Classification and Processing of Communication Calls in Little Brown Bats, Myotis Lucifugus
In chapter 4, I investigated subcortical structures (i.e., thalamus and IC) involved in the processing of communication signals, using egr1 (an immediate early gene) as a molecular marker for brain activation. Three species-specific signals were included -- downward FM (DFM), courtship, and …
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Arousal patterns, fungal loads, and wing damage in a surviving population of little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus)
<p>Little brown bats (<em>Myotis lucifugus</em>) at Tippy Dam in Michigan have shown resilience to white-nose syndrome (WNS), which is caused by the fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans. This study evaluated the impact of environment (temperature and moisture), pathogen virulence, and host …
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Disease Status, Occupancy, and Relative Activity of Little Brown Bats (Myotis lucifugus) in the Northeastern United States
… American bat species, including >90% losses in Little Brown Bats (Myotis lucifugus). Because small, remnant populations persist across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, there are key questions about their continued vulnerability to WNS or other pathogens, habitat associations in a post-WNS …
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Assessing the impacts of white-nose syndrome induced mortality on the monitoring of a bat community at Fort Drum Military Installation
… interest, such as the Indiana bat and the little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus). Habitat analysis of radio telemetry data and occupancy models of acoustic data were congruent in confirming nocturnal spatial use of forested riparian zones by little brown bats. Additionally, occupancy models of …
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Habitat Use by Boreal Mammals in Response to Salvage Logging After an Insect Outbreak
… (Lynx canadensis), coyotes (Canis latrans), and little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus) in response to salvage logging after a bark beetle outbreak in Yukon, Canada. I monitored species occupancy in beetle-affected forests and salvage-logged stands of different tree retention levels and ages using …
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Community ecology of bats in southern lower Michigan, with emphasis on roost selection by myotis
… niche of three sympatric species of Myotis (little brown bat, M. lucifugus; northern bat, M. septentrionalis; and Indiana bat, M. sodalis) and examined changes in composition of the entire bat community in southern Lower Michigan over long periods. Little brown bats roosted in buildings, …
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Exploring the drivers and consequences of emerging infectious disease of wildlife
… in driving host population stabilization of the little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus), finding that host-pathogen coexistence in this system is the product of their complex interaction. In Chapter 3, I characterize the range-wide variation in white-nose syndrome impacts on a federally endangered …
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Changing Relationship Between Temperature and Pathogen Growth on Bats with White-nose Syndrome
… pathogen Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd), in little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus) across a spatiotemporal gradient. We explored the relationship between bat roosting temperatures and Pd growth rates across three phases of pathogen invasion comprising years since WNS has been present at sites: …
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The ecology of eastern small-footed bats at Shenandoah National Park
… strategies. Broadly rare, eastern small-footed bats appear to be largely localized to mountainous habitats that feature their preferred roosting habitat, emergent rock features and talus slopes. Following initial reports of mortality from the bat epidemic white-nose syndrome, eastern …
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Bat Resource Utilization Along the Potomac River Corridor in Maryland
… use and population responses. The response of bats to periodical cicadas is largely unknown. Using a before-after-control-impact study design, we deployed ultrasonic acoustic detectors during the summers of 2020–2022 within and just outside the range of the cicada emergence along the Potomac …