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Filtering by: Creator Webb, Molly A. H. Contributor Chestnut, Tara E. Resource Type Masters Thesis

Fall Phenology, Movement, and Roost use of Little Brown Bats (Myotis lucifugus) and California Myotis (Myotis californicus) at Mount Rainier National Park

Creator:

Hansen, Michael

Abstract:

Little is known about the fall and winter ecology of hibernating bats in western North America. Filling knowledge gaps for these populations has become more urgent with the westward spread of the white-nose syndrome, a disease that infects bats during hibernation. Due to the thermal requirements of the fungal pathogen...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis

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temperature in a hibernaculum must be quite cold, with an average around 6°C (Lyman 1970; Webb and others