North American Bat Monitoring Program: R Data Connection Package (NABatR) Version 1.1.0
USGS staff with the North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat) have released version 1.1.0 of the North American Bat Monitoring...
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Jul 26
NABat Summer Abundance Analysis 2012 - 2020
Estimating the abundance of unmarked animal populations from acoustic data is challenging due to the inability to identify individuals...
May 30
Summer Roost Site Suitability Analyses of Four North American Bat Species in the Eastern United States
USGS Fort Collins Science Center staff completed a data release containing the spatial raster outputs from analyses of summer roost site...
May 29
North American Bat Monitoring Program Predicted Northern Long-Eared Bat Occupancy Probabilities
USGS Fort Collins Science Center staff with the North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat) completed a data release containing the...
Mar 26
Vignette Bayesian Site Occupancy Model Bat Acoustic Data
U.S. Geological Survey Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center staff with the North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat) have released...
Feb 20
NABat R Package (nabatr) Update
NABat just released the updated NABat R Package (nabatr)! The North American Bat Monitoring Program: R Data Connection Package can be...
Feb 15
The AFWA Bat Working Group Passed Its First Resolution
The Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Bat Working Group (AFWABWG) recently passed a resolution that supports a more consistent...
Feb 14
Getting started with the NABat R package:
The NABat R package can be used to extract and summarize data from NABat projects and data requests. This package includes functions that...
Apr 14, 2023
Attributed North American Grid-Based Offshore Sampling Frames
We have made available a sampling frame set of grid-based, finite-area frames spanning the offshore areas surrounding Canada, the United...
Aug 23, 2022
NABat ML: Utilizing deep learning to enable crowdsourced development of automated, scalable solution
Bats play crucial ecological roles and provide valuable ecosystem services, yet many populations face serious threats from various...
Jul 7, 2022
Training dataset for NABat Machine Learning V1.0
Bats play crucial ecological roles and provide valuable ecosystem services, yet many populations face serious threats from various...
Mar 11, 2022
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...
Mar 9, 2022
Statistical assessment on determining local presence of rare bat species
Abstract from Ecosphere article: Surveying cryptic, sparsely distributed taxa using autonomous recording units, although cost-effective,...
Feb 23, 2022
Status and Trends of North American Bats Summer Occupancy Analysis 2010-2019 Data Release
This data release contains the results from the North American Bat Monitoring Program's report titled 'Status and Trends of North...
Jan 25, 2022
North American Grid-Based Offshore Sampling Frames
This sampling frame is a set of grid-based, finite-area frames spanning the offshore areas surrounding Canada, the United States, and...
Jan 7, 2022
Analytical assessments in support of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 3-bat species status assessm
Beginning in February of 2020, researchers and staff of the United States Geological Survey (USGS), Bat Conservation International (BCI),...
Dec 31, 2021
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...
Aug 26, 2021
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...
Jun 14, 2021
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...
Apr 21, 2021
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,...
Jan 22, 2021
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...
Jan 17, 2021
NABat: A top-down, bottom-up solution to collaborative continental-scale monitoring
Collaborative monitoring over broad scales and levels of ecological organization can inform conservation efforts necessary to address the...
Sep 20, 2020
NABat featured in new BCI publication
A recently published book from Bat Conservation International, Bat echolocation research: A handbook for planning and conducting acoustic...
Sep 2, 2020
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,...
Jan 2, 2020
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...
Dec 2, 2019
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...
Sep 12, 2019
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...
Sep 3, 2019
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.
Jun 12, 2019
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...
Jun 1, 2019
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...
Mar 31, 2019
North American Bat Monitoring Program: Alberta 2019 Final Report
Executive Summary for the Final Report Nine species of bat occur in Alberta with at least five species considered to be susceptible to...
Dec 2, 2018
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,...
Oct 3, 2018
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,...
Jul 5, 2018
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,...
May 26, 2018
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...
Mar 31, 2018
North American Bat Monitoring Program: Alberta 2018 Final Report
Executive Summary for the Final Report Nine species of bat occur in Alberta with at least five species considered to be susceptible to...
Mar 30, 2018
American Bat Monitoring Program: Alberta 2017 Final Report
Executive Summary for the Final Report Bats across North America are facing unprecedented decline from existing and emerging threats, ...
Dec 3, 2017
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...
Mar 31, 2017
North American Bat Monitoring Program: Alberta 2016 Final Report
Executive Summary for the Final Report Bats across North America are facing unprecedented decline from existing and emerging threats, ...
Mar 31, 2017
North American Bat Monitoring Program: Alberta 2015 Final Report
Executive Summary for the Final Report Bats across North America are facing unprecedented decline from existing and emerging threats, ...
Sep 21, 2015
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...
Jun 2, 2015
A plan for the North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat)
The purpose of the North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat) is to create a continent-wide program to monitor bats at local to...
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