Roost networks of northern myotis (Myotis septentrionalis) in a managed landscape

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 266, Issue , 2012, Pages 223-231

  Johnson, Joshua B ^a   Mark Ford, W ^b   Edwards, John W ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fission fusion; Graph theory; Myotis septentrionalis; Roosting; Social groups; West Virginia

Indexed keywords

FISSION-FUSION; MYOTIS SEPTENTRIONALIS; ROOSTING; SOCIAL GROUPS; WEST VIRGINIA;

GRAPH THEORY; MAMMALS;

FORESTRY;

BASAL AREA; BAT; DISTURBANCE; FOREST CANOPY; GROUP BEHAVIOR; LANDSCAPE; PRESCRIBED BURNING; ROOST SITE; ROOSTING;

FORESTRY; GRAPHIC METHODS; MAMMALS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; WEST VIRGINIA;

FERNOW EXPERIMENTAL FOREST; UNITED STATES; WEST VIRGINIA;

MYOTIS KEENII; MYOTIS SEPTENTRIONALIS;

EID: 83455219424     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.11.032     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Alexander R.D. The evolution of social behavior. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 1974, 5:325-383.
2. Animal Care and Use Committee (ACUC) Guidelines of the American society of mammalogists for the use of wild mammals in research. J. Mammal. 2011, 92:235-253.
3. Barbási A.-L. Linked 2002, Perseus, Cambridge, MA, p. 280.
4. Barclay R.M.R., Kurta A. Ecology and behavior of bats roosting in tree cavities and under bark. Bat in Forests 2007, 17-59. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. M. Lacki, J.P. Hayes, A. Kurta (Eds.).
5. Bejder L., Fletcher D., Bräger S. A method for testing association patterns of social animals. Anim. Behav. 1998, 56:719-725.
6. Boyles J.G., Aubrey D.P. Managing forests with prescribed fire: implications for a cavity-dwelling bat species. Forest Ecol. Manage. 2006, 222:108-115.
7. Cairns S., Schwager S. A comparison of association indices. Anim. Behav. 1987, 35:1454-1469.
8. Callahan E.V., Drobney R.D., Clawson R.L. Selection of summer roosting sites by Indiana bats (Myotis sodalis) in Missouri. J. Mammal. 1997, 78:818-825.
9. Carter T.C., Feldhamer G.A. Roost tree use by maternity colonies of Indiana bats and northern long-eared bats in southern Illinois. Forest Ecol. Manage. 2005, 219:259-268.
10. Chaverri G., Quirós O.E., Gamba-Rios M., Kunz T.H. Ecological correlates of roost fidelity in the tent-making bat Artibeus watsoni. Ethology 2007, 113:598-605.
11. Cline S.P., Berg A.B., Wight H.M. Snag characteristics and dynamics in Douglas-fir forests, western Oregon. J. Wildl. Manage. 1980, 44:773-786.
12. Crampton L.H., Barclay R.M.R. Selection of roosting and foraging habitat by bats in different-aged aspen mixedwood stands. Conserv. Biol. 1998, 12:1347-1358.
13. Ford W.M., Owen S.F., Edwards J.W., Rodrigue J.L. Robinia pseudoacacia (black locust) as day-roosts of male Myotis septentrionalis (northern bats) on the Fernow experimental forest, West Virginia. Northeast Nat. 2006, 13:15-24.
14. Fortuna M.A., Popa-Lisseau A.G., Ibáñez C., Bascompte J. The roosting spatial network of a bird-predator bat. Ecology 2009, 90:934-944.
15. Foster R.W., Kurta A. Roosting ecology of the northern bat (Myotis septentrionalis) and comparisons with the endangered Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis). J. Mammal. 1999, 80:659-672.
16. Garroway C.J., Broders H.G. Nonrandom association patterns at northern long-eared bat maternity roosts. Can. J. Zool. 2007, 85:956-964.
17. Garroway C.J., Broders H.G. Day roost characteristics of northern long-eared bats (Myotis septentrionalis) in relation to female reproductive status. Ecoscience 2008, 15:89-93.
18. Henderson L.E., Broders H.G. Movements and resource selection of the northern long-eared myotis (Myotis septentrionalis) in a forest-agriculture landscape. J. Mammal. 2008, 89:952-963.
19. Johnson J.B., Edwards J.W., Ford W.M., Gates J.E. Roost tree selection by northern myotis (Myotis septentrionalis) maternity colonies following prescribed fire in a central Appalachian Mountains hardwood forest. Forest Ecol. Manage. 2009, 258:233-242.
20. Kerth G. Causes and consequences of sociality in bats. BioScience 2008, 58:737-746.
21. Kerth G., Konig B. Fission, fusion and nonrandom associations in female Bechstein's bats (Myotis bechsteinii). Behaviour 1999, 136:1187-1202.
22. Kerth G., Reckardt K. Information transfer about roosts in female Bechstein's bats: an experimental field study. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 2003, 270:511-515.
23. Kochenderfer J.N. Fernow and the Appalachian hardwood region. The Fernow Watershed Acidification Study 2006, 17-39. Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands. M.B. Adams, D.R. DeWalle, J.L. Horn (Eds.).
24. Kochenderfer, J.N., Adams, M.B., Miller, G.W., Helvey, J.D., 2007. Factors Affecting Large Peakflows on Appalachian Watersheds: Lessons from the Fernow Experimental Forest. USDA Forest Service, Research Paper NRS-3, Northeastern Research Station, Newtown Square, PA, p. 24.
25. Kummer H. Primate Societies: Group Techniques of Ecological Adaptation 1971, Aldine-Atherton, Chicago, IL, p. 160.
26. Kunz T.H., Lumsden L.F. Ecology of cavity and foliage roosting bats. Bat Ecology 2003, 3-89. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL. T.H. Kunz, M.B. Fenton (Eds.).
27. Kurta T.H., Murray S.W., Miller D.H. Roost selection and movements across the summer landscape. The Indiana Bat: Biology and Management of an Endangered Species 2002, 118-129. Bat Conservation International, Austin, TX. A. Kurta, J. Kennedy (Eds.).
28. Lacki M.J., Cox D.R., Dodd L.E., Dickinson M.B. Response of northern bats (Myotis septentrionalis) to prescribed fires in eastern Kentucky forests. J. Mammal. 2009, 90:1165-1175.
29. Lewis S.E. Roost fidelity in bats: a review. J. Mammal. 1995, 76:481-496.
30. Lorch, J.M., Meteyer, C.U., Behr, M.J., Boyles, J.G., Cryan, P.M., Hicks, A.C., Ballmann, A.E., Coleman, J.T.H., Redell, D.N., Reeder, D.M., Blehart, D.S., 2011. Experimental infection of bats with Geomyces destructans causes white-nose syndrome. Nature (accessed 7.11.2011). doi:10.1038/nature10590.
31. Madarish, D.M., Rodrigue, J.L., Adams M.B., 2002. Vascular flora and macroscopic fauna on the Fernow Experimental Forest. USDA Forest Service, General Technical Report GTR-NE-291, Northeastern Research Station, Newtown Square, PA, p. 37.
32. Menzel M.A., Owen S.F., Ford W.M., Edwards J.W., Wood P.B., Chapman B.R., Miller K.V. Roost tree selection by northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis) maternity colonies in an industrial forest of the central Appalachian Mountains. Forest Ecol. Manage. 2002, 155:107-114.
33. Metheny J.D., Kalcounis-Rueppell M.C., Willis C.K.R., Kolar K.A., Brigham R.M. Genetic relationships between roost-mates in a fission-fusion society of tree-roosting big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus). Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 2008, 62:1043-1051.
34. Miller D.A., Arnett E.B., Lacki M.J. Habitat management for forest-roosting bats of North America: a critical review of habitat studies. Wildl. Soc. Bull. 2003, 31:30-44.
35. Nyland R.D. Silviculture: Concepts and Applications 1996, McGraw-Hill, New York, NY, p. 633.
36. O'Donnell C.F.J., Sedgeley J.A. Use of roosts by the long-tailed bat, Chalinolobus tuberculatus, in temperate rainforest in New Zealand. J. Mammal. 1999, 80:913-923.
37. Ormsbee P.C., Kiser J.D., Perlmeter S.I. Importance of night roosts to the ecology of bats. Bat in Forests 2007, 129-151. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD. M. Lacki, J. Hayes, A. Kurta (Eds.).
38. Owen, S.F., Menzel, M.A., Ford, W.M., Edwards, J.W., Chapman, B.R., Miller, K.V., Wood, P.B., 2002. Roost Tree Selection by Maternal Colonies of Northern Long-Eared Myotis in an Intensively Managed Forest. USDA Forest Service, General Technical Report NE-292, Northeastern Research Station, Newtown Square, PA, p. 6.
39. Perry R.W., Thill R.E., Leslie D.M. Selection of roosting habitat by forest bats in a diverse forested landscape. Forest Ecol. Manage. 2007, 238:156-166.
40. Rhodes M. Roost fidelity and fission-fusion dynamics of white-striped free-tailed bats (Tadarida australis). J. Mammal. 2007, 88:1252-1260.
41. Rhodes M., Wardell-Johnson G.W., Rhodes M.P., Raymond B. Applying network analysis to the conservation of habitat trees in urban environments: a case study from Brisbane. Aust. Conserv. Biol. 2006, 20:861-870.
42. Robinson D.H., Wainer H. On the past and future of null hypothesis significance testing. J. Wildl. Manage. 2002, 66:263-271.
43. SAS Institute, Inc., 2004. SAS/STAT 9.1 Users Guide. Version 9.1. SAS Institute, Inc., Cary, NC, p. 5121.
44. Sasse, D.B., Pekins, P.J., 1996. Summer roosting ecology of northern long-eared bats (Myotis septentrionalis) in the White Mountain National Forest, in: Barclay R.M.R., Brigham, R.M. (Eds.), Bats and Forests Symposium. British Columbia Ministry of Forests Working Paper 23/1996, Victoria, Canada, pp. 91-101.
45. Schuler T.M. Fifty years of partial harvesting in a mixed mesophytic forest: composition and productivity. Can. J. Forest Res. 2004, 34:985-997.
46. Schuler, T.M., Fajvan, M.A., 1999. Understory Tree Characteristics and Disturbance History of a Central Appalachian Forest Prior to Old-Growth Harvesting. USDA Forest Service, Research Paper NE-710, Northeastern Research Station, Radnor, PA, p. 12.
47. Sedgeley J.A., O'Donnell C.F.J. Factors influencing roost cavity selection by a temperate rainforest bat (Chalinolobus tuberculatus, Vespertilionidae) in New Zealand. J. Zool. (Lond.) 1999, 249:437-446.
48. Turner M.G., Hargrove W.W., Gardner R.H., Romme W.H. Effects of fire on landscape heterogeneity in Yellowstone National Park. Wyoming. J. Veg. Sci. 1994, 5:731-742.
49. Vonhof M.J., Whitehead H., Fenton M.B. Analysis of Spix's disc-winged bat association patterns and roosting home ranges reveal a novel social structure among bats. Anim. Behav. 2004, 68:507-521.
50. Whitehead H. SOCPROG programs: analysing animal social structures. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 2009, 63:765-778.
51. Willis C.K.R., Brigham R.M. Roost switching, roost sharing and social cohesion: forest-dwelling big brown bats, Eptesicus fuscus, conform to the fission-fusion model. Anim. Behav. 2004, 68:495-505.