Bats in Forests: Conservation and Management

✍ Scribed by Lacki, Michael J(Editor)

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 350
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Although bats are often thought of as cave dwellers, many species depend on forests for all or part of the year. Of the 45 species of bats in North America, more than half depend on forests, using the bark of trees, tree cavities, or canopy foliage as roosting sites. Over the past two decades it has become increasingly clear that bat conservation and management are strongly linked to the health of forests within their range.

Initially driven by concern for endangered species—the Indiana bat, for example—forest ecologists, timber managers, government agencies, and conservation organizations have been altering management plans and silvicultural practices to better accommodate bat species.Bats in Forestspresents the work of a variety of experts who address many aspects of the ecology and conservation of bats. The chapter authors describe bat behavior, including the selection of roosts, foraging patterns, and seasonal migration as they relate to forests. They also discuss forest management and its influence on bat habitat. Both public lands and privately owned forests are considered, as well as techniques for monitoring bat populations and activity.

The important role bats play in the ecology of forests—from control of insects to nutrient recycling—is revealed by a number of authors. Bat ecologists, bat conservationists, forest ecologists, and forest managers will find in this book an indispensable synthesis of the topics that concern them.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Foreword......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
Contributors......Page 16
1 BATS IN FORESTS: WHAT WE KNOW AND WHAT WE NEED TO LEARN......Page 20
2 ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR OF BATS ROOSTING IN TREE CAVITIES AND UNDER BARK......Page 36
3 BEHAVIOR AND DAY-ROOSTING ECOLOGY OF NORTH AMERICAN FOLIAGE-ROOSTING BATS......Page 80
4 FORAGING ECOLOGY OF BATS IN FORESTS......Page 102
5 IMPORTANCE OF NIGHT ROOSTS TO THE ECOLOGY OF BATS......Page 148
6 MIGRATION AND USE OF AUTUMN, WINTER, AND SPRING ROOSTS BY TREE BATS......Page 172
7 SILVICULTURAL PRACTICES AND MANAGEMENT OF HABITAT FOR BATS......Page 196
8 THE INFLUENCES OF FOREST MANAGEMENT ON BATS IN NORTH AMERICA......Page 226
9 ECOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR LANDSCAPE-LEVEL MANAGEMENT OF BATS......Page 256
10 ASSESSING POPULATION STATUS OF BATS IN FORESTS: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES......Page 282
11 PLANNING FOR BATS ON FOREST INDUSTRY LANDS IN NORTH AMERICA......Page 312
C......Page 338
G......Page 339
L......Page 340
P......Page 341
T......Page 342
Z......Page 343
M......Page 344
Y......Page 345
F......Page 346
P......Page 347
Y......Page 348