Use of Forested Habitat Adjacent to Highways by Northern Long-Eared Bats (and other Bats)

Bat populations throughout the Northeast have undergone precipitous declines in less than a decade due to the fungal disease white-nose syndrome, with Myotis septentrionalis (Northern long-eared bat, hereafter NLEB) suffering the most severe declines of any species. The overarching objective of the proposed research was to address several major gaps in the knowledge of NLEB distributions and activity as they relate to the use of habitat along or adjacent to highways in New England. The authors compiled all available survey data to assist with determining habitat use and the effects of roads on NLEB, with a focus on habitats of the New England region. Using cutting-edge presence-absence occupancy models, the authors determined that NLEB distributions change spatially across New England but did not find a strong relationship between their distribution and highway or other landscape features.

• Record URL:
  https://www.newenglandtransportationconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/NETC_15-1_FinalReport_FinalVersion.pdf
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• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/64210
• Corporate Authors:

  University of New Hampshire, Durham

  Durham, NH  United States  03824

  New England Transportation Consortium

  c/o Transportation Research Center, University of Vermont
  210 Colchester Avenue
  Burlington, VT  United States  05405

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Foster, Jeffrey
  • Linden, Dan
  • Blomberg, Erik
  • Fisher-Phelps, Marina
  • Ineson, Katherine
• Publication Date: 2019-1

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 39p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Data collection; Environmental impacts; Habitat (Ecology); Highways
• Uncontrolled Terms: Bats (Animals); Northern long-eared bats; Species distribution
• Geographic Terms: New England
• Subject Areas: Environment; Highways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01698472
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: NETC 15-1, NETCR117
• Files: NTL, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Mar 4 2019 1:01PM