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OOS-19:
Bat habitat use in eastern North American temperate forests: Site, stand,
and landscape effects
Tuesday,
August 9, 1:30 PM - 5 PM, Meeting Rooms 510a and 510c, Level, 5 Palais
des congrès de Montréal
Organizers:
Robert Brooks (rtbrooks@fs.fed.us),
Mark Ford
Description:
Bats
in eastern North American forests provide an excellent tool to study habitat use
at variable spatial and temporal scales, and how limiting factors change when
scaling up or down. These highly vagile mammals select specialized habitats for
roosting, foraging, and winter hibernation across many scales. Forest bats
select diurnal roost sites at the smallest scale of individual trees. Selection
of suitable foraging habitat occurs at the intermediate scales of forest stands
and watersheds. At larger landscape scales, bats locate and move among their
small- and intermediate-scale habitats, and seasonal migrations to and from
winter hibernacula occur at regional to continental scales. This session offers
a series of individual studies of bat habitat use at multiple scales, from
locations throughout the eastern forested region of North America, with an
emphasis on synthesizing findings into more unified concepts of scale and of bat
ecology.
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