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    NABat Coordination Team
    • Mar 11
    • 3 min

    NABat Summer Occupancy Analysis 2010-2019

    We have made available our first set of results for one of three status variables for North American bats. Through this work we developed...
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    NABat Coordination Team
    • Dec 31, 2021
    • 1 min

    Acoustic and Genetic Data Can Reduce Uncertainty Regarding Populations of Migratory Tree-Roosting...

    Wind turbine-related mortality may pose a population-level threat for migratory tree-roosting bats, such as the hoary bat (Lasiurus...
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    The Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative National Bat Health Report - 2021
    NABat Coordination Team
    • Aug 26, 2021
    • 2 min

    The Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative National Bat Health Report - 2021

    The Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative (CWHC) has released a report characterizing some of the major threats impacting bat species...
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    NABat Coordination Team
    • Jun 14, 2021
    • 2 min

    Spatial Gaussian processes improve multi-species occupancy models when range boundaries are uncert..

    Species distribution models enable practitioners to analyze large datasets of encounter records and make predictions about species...
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    White-Nose Syndrome Killed Over 90% of Three North American Bat Species
    NABat Coordination Team
    • Apr 21, 2021
    • 5 min

    White-Nose Syndrome Killed Over 90% of Three North American Bat Species

    New Study Unveils the Impacts of the Disease on Native Bat Populations White-nose syndrome has killed over 90% of northern long-eared,...
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    NABat collaborators highlight the program's successes in the journal Ambio
    NABat Coordination Team
    • Jan 22, 2021
    • 1 min

    NABat collaborators highlight the program's successes in the journal Ambio

    NABat collaborators published the article, "NABat: A top-down, bottom-up solution to collaborative continental-scale monitoring," in the...
    98 views
    NABat featured in new BCI publication
    NABat Coordination Team
    • Sep 20, 2020
    • 1 min

    NABat featured in new BCI publication

    A recently published book from Bat Conservation International, Bat echolocation research: A handbook for planning and conducting acoustic...
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    NABat Coordination Team
    • Sep 2, 2020
    • 1 min

    NABat acoustic monitoring allows inferences about bat populations at multiple scales

    North American bats face unprecedented risks from continuing and emerging threats including white-nose syndrome, wind energy development,...
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    NABat Coordination Team
    • Jan 2, 2020
    • 1 min

    Analysis of Colorado NABat data from 2016 and 2017

    We analyzed detection/non-detection data from acoustic surveys of bat species in Colorado during the summers of 2016 and 2017. The goal...
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    Researchers evaluate the efficacy of NABat in Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management
    NABat Coordination Team
    • Dec 2, 2019
    • 1 min

    Researchers evaluate the efficacy of NABat in Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management

    A 2019 article published in the Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management found that North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat) summer...
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    New study models decline in hoary bats using NABat monitoring data
    NABat Coordination Team
    • Sep 12, 2019
    • 2 min

    New study models decline in hoary bats using NABat monitoring data

    A collaborative research effort based at Oregon State University – Cascades has concluded that summer hoary bat populations in the...
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    National Park Service releases regional NABat protocol for Pacific Northwest
    NABat Coordination Team
    • Sep 3, 2019
    • 2 min

    National Park Service releases regional NABat protocol for Pacific Northwest

    The National Park Service recently published the first region-specific protocol for implementing NABat stationary acoustic surveys.
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    Texas culvert study utilizes NABat sample design
    NABat Coordination Team
    • Jun 12, 2019
    • 1 min

    Texas culvert study utilizes NABat sample design

    A recent Texas study, published in the Journal of Mammalogy, used the NABat generalized random-tessellation stratified (GRTS) survey...
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    Nebraska bat activity examined using NABat monitoring protocols
    NABat Coordination Team
    • Jun 1, 2019
    • 1 min

    Nebraska bat activity examined using NABat monitoring protocols

    A recent master's thesis by Baxter Seguin of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln School of Natural Resources implemented NABat monitoring...
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    NABat Program Releases Grid-Based Sampling Frame Data
    NABat Coordination Team
    • Dec 2, 2018
    • 1 min

    NABat Program Releases Grid-Based Sampling Frame Data

    The North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat) recently released a set of nested sampling frames spanning Canada, the United States,...
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    Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro use NABat Data to Disentangle Effects
    NABat Coordination Team
    • Oct 3, 2018
    • 1 min

    Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro use NABat Data to Disentangle Effects

    Past research has shown that certain bat species respond differently to degraded water quality or urbanization on local scales. However,...
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    NABat Coordination Team
    • Jul 5, 2018
    • 2 min

    A goodness-of-fit test for occupancy models with correlated within-season revisits

    Occupancy modeling is important for exploring species distribution patterns and for conservation monitoring. Within this framework,...
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    NABat Coordination Team
    • May 26, 2018
    • 2 min

    Occupancy modeling species–environment relationships with non-ignorable survey designs

    Statistical models supporting inferences about species occurrence patterns in relation to environmental gradients are fundamental to...
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    Decoupling the effects of water quality and urbanization on bats
    NABat Coordination Team
    • Dec 3, 2017
    • 1 min

    Decoupling the effects of water quality and urbanization on bats

    Authors Han Li and Matina Kalcounis-Rueppell employ the North American Bat Monitoring Program mobile acoustic transect protocol to study...
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    NABat Coordination Team
    • Sep 21, 2015
    • 1 min

    Establishing conservation baselines with dynamic distribution models for bat populations facing...

    Bat mortality rates from white-nose syndrome and wind power development are unprecedented. Cryptic and wide-ranging behaviours of bats...
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