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In Support of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 3-Bat Species Status Assessment: Future Projections of Known North American Bat Populations for 3 Species (2020-2060), Processed from the NABat Database Winter Colony Counts from 1990-2020

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Start Date
2020-01-01
End Date
2060-12-31

Citation

Wiens, A.M., Szymanski, J., and Thogmartin, W.E., 2021, In Support of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 3-Bat Species Status Assessment: Future Projections of Known North American Bat Populations for 3 Species (2020-2060), Processed from the NABat Database Winter Colony Counts from 1990-2020: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9NDMY47.

Summary

The dataset is comprised of site-level, regional-level, and species-level future population projections for three bat species (Myotis lucifugus, Myotis septentrionalis, and Perimyotis subflavus) under several future scenarios. Future scenarios can be used to assess population health, and were used in part to inform the SSA for the three bat species. Many different future scenarios are included, defined based on future wind development and white-nose syndrome impacts. Sheets within the table are labeled based on the spatial scale of the projections (species, regional, or site-level), and the scenario column in each sheet indicates which future scenario projections correspond to, labeled based on the severity of wind and white-nose syndrome [...]

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SiteSummaries.csv 55.4 MB text/csv
SpeciesSummaries.csv 48.27 KB text/csv

Purpose

The data provide future population trajectories, which are important for managers and decision makers to evaluate the health of a given species. Historical winter colony count data were modeled to estimate status and trends, and then projected into the future using a demographic model. An appropriate use of the data is to evaluate the impacts of stressors on bat species using the central tendency and uncertainty bounds of each scenario. Some of the scenarios were used to inform the 3 bat species status assessment (SSA), defining projections based on current and future plausible conditions.

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  • Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (UMESC)

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier 10.5066/P9NDMY47
USGS_ScienceCenter https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center
USGS_MissionArea https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier Ecosystems
USGS_keywords https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier Wildlife Biology, Wildlife Disease

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