Roost selection by forest-living female big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus)

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 345-350

  Willis, Craig K R ^a   Voss, Christine M ^b   Brigham, R Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cavity volume; Chiroptera; Forests; Radiotelemetry; Roosting ecology; Tree cavities

Indexed keywords

BAT; CAVITY; FEMALE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; NUMERICAL METHOD; ROOST SITE;

CHIROPTERA; EPTESICUS; EPTESICUS FUSCUS;

EID: 33646267442     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/05-MAMM-A-118R1.1     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. ALDRIDGE, H. D. J. N., AND R. M. BRIGHAM. 1988. Load carrying and maneuverability in an insectivorous bat: a test of the 5% 'rule' of radio telemetry. Journal of Mammalogy 69:379-383.
2. ANIMAL CARE AND USE COMMITTEE. 1998. Guidelines for the capture, handling, and care of mammals as approved by the American Society of Mammalogists. Journal of Mammalogy 79:1416-1431.
3. ANTHONY, E. L. 1988. Age determination in bats. Pp. 47-58 in Ecological and behavioral methods for the study of bats (T. H. Kunz, ed.). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
4. BAKKEN, G. S., AND T. H. KUNZ. 1988. Microclimate methods. Pp. 303-332 in Ecological and behavioral methods for the study of bats (T. H. Kunz, ed.). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
5. BARCLAY, R. M. R., AND R. M. BRIGHAM. 1996. Proceedings of the First International Bat-Forest Interactions Symposium, Victoria British Columbia, 19-21 October 1995. Research Branch, British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, Working Paper 23/1996.
6. BRIGHAM, R. M., M. J. VONHOF, R. M. R. BARCLAY, AND J. C. GWILLIAM. 1997. Roosting behavior and roost-site preferences of forest-dwelling California bats (Myotis californicus). Journal of Mammalogy 78:1231-1239.
7. BRODERS, H. G., AND G. J. FORBES. 2004. Interspecific and intersexual variation in roost-site selection of northern long-eared and little brown bats in the greater Fundy National Park ecosystem. Journal of Wildlife Management 68:602-610.
8. CHRUSZCZ, B., AND R. M. R. BARCLAY. 2002. Thermoregulatory ecology of a solitary bat, Myotis evotis roosting in rock crevices. Functional Ecology 16:18-26.
9. HUTCHINSON, J. T., AND M. J. LACKI. 2000. Selection of day roosts by red bats in mixed mesophytic forests. Journal of Wildlife Management 64:87-94.
10. KALCOUNIS, M. C., AND R. M. BRIGHAM. 1998. Secondary use of aspen cavities by tree-roosting big brown bats. Journal of Wildlife Management 62:603-611.
11. KALCOUNIS-RÜPPELL, M. C., J. M. PSYLLAKIS, AND R. M. BRIGHAM. 2005. Tree roost selection by bats: an empirical synthesis using meta-analysis. Wildlife Society Bulletin 33:1123-1132.
12. KERTH, G., AND B. KÖNIG. 1999. Fission, fusion and nonrandom associations in female Bechstein's bats (Myotis bechsteinii). Behaviour 136:1187-1202.
13. KERTH, G., K. WEISSMANN, AND B. KÖNIG. 2001. Day roost selection in female Bechstein's bats (Myotis bechsteinii): a field experiment to determine the influence of roost temperature. Oecologia 126:1-9.
14. KUNZ, T. H., AND L. F. LUMSDEN. 2003. Ecology of cavity and foliage roosting bats. Pp. 3-90 in Bat ecology (T. H. Kunz and M. B. Fenton, eds.). University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois.
15. KURTA, A., AND R. H. BAKER. 1990. Eptesicus fuscus. Mammalian Species 356:1-10.
16. KURTA, A., S. W. MURRAY, AND D. H. MILLER. 2002. Roost selection and movement across the summer landscape. Pp. 118-129 in The Indiana bat: biology and management of an endangered species (A. Kurta and J. Kennedy, eds.). Bat Conservation International, Austin, Texas.
17. LAUSEN, C. L., AND R. M. R. BARCLAY. 2003. Thermoregulation and roost selection by reproductive female big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) roosting in rock crevices. Journal of Zoology (London) 260:235-244.
18. LEWIS, S. E. 1995. Roost fidelity of bats: a review. Journal of Mammalogy 76:481-496.
19. MAGER, K. J., AND T. A. NELSON. 2001. Roost-site selection by eastern red bats (Lasiurus borealis). American Midland Naturalist 145:20-126.
20. O'DONNELL, C. F. J. 2000. Cryptic local populations in a temperate rainforest bat Chalinolobus tuberculatus in New Zealand. Animal Conservation 3:287-297.
21. SAUCHYN, D. J. 1993. Quaternary and Late Tertiary landscape evolution in the western Cypress Hills. Pp. 46-48 in Quaternary and late Tertiary landscapes of southwestern Saskatchewan and adjacent areas (D. J. Sauchyn, ed.). Canadian Plains Research Centre, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
22. SEDGELEY, J. A., AND C. F. J. O'DONNELL. 1999a. Factors influencing the selection of roost cavities by a temperate rainforest bat (Vespertilionidae: Chalinolobus tuberculatus) in New Zealand. Journal of Zoology (London) 249:437-446.
23. SEDGELEY, J. A., AND C. F. J. O'DONNELL. 1999b. Roost selection by the long-tailed bat, Chalinolobus tuberculatus, in temperate New Zealand rainforest and its implications for the conservation of bats in managed forests. Biological Conservation 88:261-276.
24. SEDGELEY, J. A., AND C. F. J. O'DONNELL. 2004. Roost use by long-tailed bats in south Canterbury: examining predictions of roost-site selection in a highly fragmented landscape. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 28:1-18.
25. VONHOF, M. J., AND R. M. R. BARCLAY. 1996. Roost-site selection and roosting ecology of forest-dwelling bats in southern British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Zoology 74:1797-1805.
26. WILKINSON, G. S. 1985. The social organization of the common vampire bat. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 17:111-121.
27. WILLIS, C. K. R. 2006. Daily heterothermy in temperate bats using natural roosts. In Functional and evolutionary ecology of bats (T. H. Kunz, A. Zubaid, and G. F. McCracken, eds.). Oxford University Press, New York.
28. WILLIS, C. K. R., AND R. M. BRIGHAM. 2004. Roost switching, roost sharing and social cohesion: forest dwelling big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) conform to the fission-fusion model. Animal Behaviour 68:495-505.
29. WILLIS, C. K. R, AND R. M. BRIGHAM. 2005. Physiological and ecological aspects of roost selection by reproductive female hoary bats (Lasiurus cinereus). Journal of Mammalogy 86:85-94.
30. WILLIS, C. K. R., K. A. KOLAR, A. L. KARST, M. C. KALCOUNIS-RUPPELL, AND R. M. BRIGHAM. 2003. Medium- and long-term reuse of trembling aspen cavities as roosts by big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus). Acta Chiropterologica 5:85-90.