Michael Whitby

In Support of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 3-Bat Species Status Assessment: Winter Colony Count Analysis

Through the North American Bat Monitoring Program, Bat Conservation International and U.S Geological Survey (USGS) provided technical and science support to assistance in U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Species Status Assessment ("SSA") for the northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis), little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus), and tri-colored bat (Perimyotis subflavus). USGS facilitated the SSA data call providing data archival for repeatable and transparent analyses, provided statistical support to assess the historical, current, an future population status for each of the three species, and developed a demographic projection tool to evaluate future viability of each species under multiple threat scenarios. We...

Categories: Data; Tags: Ecology, North America, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), USGS-EMA-LOW-IS White-Nose Syndrome, USGS-EMA-LOW-SB SMC: Bats, All tags... USGS-EMA-LOW-SB T&E: Bats, Wildlife Biology, Wildlife Disease, bats, biota, endangered species, white-nose syndrome, Fewer tags

In Support of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 3-Bat Species Status Assessment: Summer Mobile Acoustic Transect Analysis

Through the North American Bat Monitoring Program, Bat Conservation International and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) collaborated with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to provided technical and science support to assistance in U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services’ Species Status Assessment (“SSA”) for the northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis), little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus), and tri-colored bat (Perimyotis subflavus). We conducted analyses to estimate changes in bat echolocation activity recorded during mobile transect surveys. Bat activity recorded during mobile acoustic transects provide an index of abundance and can be used to determine changes in populations over time (Roche et al. 2011, Jones et...

Categories: Data; Tags: Ecology, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), USGS-EMA-LOW-IS White-Nose Syndrome, USGS-EMA-LOW-SB SMC: Bats, USGS-EMA-LOW-SB T&E: Bats, All tags... USGS-EMA-LOW-SS Wind energy, United States, Wildlife Biology, Wildlife Disease, acoustic mobile transect surveys, bats, biota, endangered species, species status assessment, white-nose syndrome, wind energy, Fewer tags