These data contain results and model code from the North American Bat Monitoring Program's (NABat) integrated species distribution and...

Monitoring populations is challenging for cryptic species with seasonal life cycles, where data from multiple field techniques are...

This application was developed to bring accessibility and interpretability to BART predictions as a supplement to Oram et al. 2025 (...

Human-built structures can provide important habitat for wildlife, but predicting which structures are most likely to be used remains...

The nabatr package was originally developed to query and analyze data contained within the North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat)...

USGS staff with the North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat) recently released a new dataset. This dataset documents the results of...

USGS staff with the North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat) have released knitted grid and multi-scale grid covariates. This data...

The use of quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) to monitor pathogens is common; however, quantitative frameworks that consider the...

The North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat) contributed to a manuscript recently published in the Annals of the New York Academy of...

USGS staff with the North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat) have released version 1.1.0 of the North American Bat Monitoring...

Estimating the abundance of unmarked animal populations from acoustic data is challenging due to the inability to identify individuals...

USGS Fort Collins Science Center staff completed a data release containing the spatial raster outputs from analyses of summer roost site...

USGS Fort Collins Science Center staff with the North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat) completed a data release containing the...

U.S. Geological Survey Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center staff with the North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat) have released...

NABat just released the updated NABat R Package (nabatr)! The North American Bat Monitoring Program: R Data Connection Package can be...

The Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Bat Working Group (AFWABWG) recently passed a resolution that supports a more consistent...

The NABat R package can be used to extract and summarize data from NABat projects and data requests. This package includes functions that...

We have made available a sampling frame set of grid-based, finite-area frames spanning the offshore areas surrounding Canada, the United...

Bats play crucial ecological roles and provide valuable ecosystem services, yet many populations face serious threats from various...

Bats play crucial ecological roles and provide valuable ecosystem services, yet many populations face serious threats from various...

We have made available our first set of results for one of three status variables for North American bats. Through this work we developed...

Abstract from Ecosphere article: Surveying cryptic, sparsely distributed taxa using autonomous recording units, although cost-effective,...

This data release contains the results from the North American Bat Monitoring Program's report titled 'Status and Trends of North...

This sampling frame is a set of grid-based, finite-area frames spanning the offshore areas surrounding Canada, the United States, and...

Beginning in February of 2020, researchers and staff of the United States Geological Survey (USGS), Bat Conservation International (BCI),...

Wind turbine-related mortality may pose a population-level threat for migratory tree-roosting bats, such as the hoary bat (Lasiurus...

The Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative (CWHC) has released a report characterizing some of the major threats impacting bat species...

Species distribution models enable practitioners to analyze large datasets of encounter records and make predictions about species...

New Study Unveils the Impacts of the Disease on Native Bat Populations White-nose syndrome has killed over 90% of northern long-eared,...

Collaborative monitoring over broad scales and levels of ecological organization can inform conservation efforts necessary to address the...

A recently published book from Bat Conservation International, Bat echolocation research: A handbook for planning and conducting acoustic...

North American bats face unprecedented risks from continuing and emerging threats including white-nose syndrome, wind energy development,...

We analyzed detection/non-detection data from acoustic surveys of bat species in Colorado during the summers of 2016 and 2017. The goal...

A 2019 article published in the Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management found that North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat) summer...

A collaborative research effort based at Oregon State University – Cascades has concluded that summer hoary bat populations in the...

The National Park Service recently published the first region-specific protocol for implementing NABat stationary acoustic surveys.

A recent Texas study, published in the Journal of Mammalogy, used the NABat generalized random-tessellation stratified (GRTS) survey...

A recent master's thesis by Baxter Seguin of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln School of Natural Resources implemented NABat monitoring...

Executive Summary for the Final Report Nine species of bat occur in Alberta with at least five species considered to be susceptible to...

Past research has shown that certain bat species respond differently to degraded water quality or urbanization on local scales. However,...

Occupancy modeling is important for exploring species distribution patterns and for conservation monitoring. Within this framework,...

Statistical models supporting inferences about species occurrence patterns in relation to environmental gradients are fundamental to...

Executive Summary for the Final Report Nine species of bat occur in Alberta with at least five species considered to be susceptible to...

Executive Summary for the Final Report Bats across North America are facing unprecedented decline from existing and emerging threats, ...

Authors Han Li and Matina Kalcounis-Rueppell employ the North American Bat Monitoring Program mobile acoustic transect protocol to study...

Executive Summary for the Final Report Bats across North America are facing unprecedented decline from existing and emerging threats, ...

Executive Summary for the Final Report Bats across North America are facing unprecedented decline from existing and emerging threats, ...

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

The purpose of the North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat) is to create a continent-wide program to monitor bats at local to...