Sentences with phrase «of bat populations»

Through a grant awarded by the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI), The Nature Conservancy of Canada created an inventory of bat populations in southern British Columbia, including the locations of their habitats and habitat health.

Improved analysis of long - term monitoring data demonstrates marked regional declines of bat populations in the eastern United States.

Due to the economic and ecological importance, the researchers urge policy - makers to avoid a wait - and - see approach to the issue of widespread declines of bat populations.

«This information is crucial, as it allows us to evaluate the status of bat populations and develop a plan of action for conservation.»

[www.nytimes.com/2008/03/25/science/25bats.html?ref=science] The unprecidented die - off of bats in NY and other NE States, only identified in January, is now considered epidemic, although the exact cause is uncertain, as is the degree of decimation of the bat population.

I have maybe 1 / 4th of the bat population I usually have.

Not exact matches

By all means take a swing at «Panama vs. Costa Rica» — but be ready to trade the bat for a magnifying glass as soon as you figure out exactly what kind of weather, scenery, population, infrastructure, cost of living, and real estate prices make up your ideal location.

Right off the bat you can disregard 85 % of a population when you consider the illiteracy rate in most of these countries — they've never even heard of tennis.

Hristov then did a postdoc with Thomas Kunz at Boston University using thermal imaging and 3D visualization to study bat behavior in the Texas Hill Country and to get a more accurate census of the Brazilian free - tailed bat population at Carlsbad Cavern in New Mexico.

Many populations of hibernating bats have died off shortly after encountering a new, virulent fungal infection known as white nose syndrome.

«With the loss of these one, two, maybe 10 million bat individuals in these populations, what are the implications?»

The disease has been likened to the chytrid fungus that's wiping out amphibian populations worldwide, or the white - nose syndrome that's killing off entire caves of bats (SN: 4/30/16, p. 20).

With increasing population growth in West Africa, the frequency of contact between humans and natural Ebola virus hosts such as bats will likely rise, potentially leading to more catastrophic outbreaks.

Worldwide, such facilities have been responsible for the deaths of 140,000 to 328,000 birds and 500,000 to 1.6 million bats, raising questions about their effects on population sustainability.

If enough samples test positive, his team might be able to build a model of how virus levels fluctuate in the bat population.

And last, of course, she wants to know what lessons bat researchers can learn from this population that might help them save other types of bats in other places.

«This new method to simultaneously screen many vampire bat samples for both diet and population structure is of value to future studies on vampire bat biology and for assessment of vampire bat related pathogen transmission risks.

The deadly fungal disease known as white - nose syndrome has spread to bat colonies throughout eastern North America over the past seven years, causing bat populations to crash, with several species now at risk of extinction.

«The current recovery plan doesn't recognize that there are two distinct taxa on the islands; therefore, monitoring of population size and habitat use that treats all Hawaiian bats as a single unit is likely providing measures that are overestimated and not accurate for either taxon.»

«It hits when the population is at its smallest, and by the end of winter nearly 100 percent of the bats in a cave can be infected, which helps explain why it has such large impacts,» said Kate Langwig, a graduate student at UC Santa Cruz and first author of the paper.

But the remarkably high rate of infection during hibernation leads to high mortality rates at the time of year when bat populations are naturally at their lowest, before the females give birth in the summer.

In a year filled with news of devastating population losses among frogs, bats, bees, shorebirds, and salmon, researchers in August reported good news for at least one endangered species: the western lowland gorilla.

The ZooKeys article describes the first study of the behavior, diet, and conservation status of this flying fox, finding that the Mortlock Islands support a small population of 900 to 1200 bats scattered across a land surface of only 12 km2 (4.6 square miles).

The summer's record - breaking rainfall in the Northeast, as well as depleting populations of bats that prey on mosquitoes due to white - nose syndrome, have increased fears as the U.S. enters its 10th West Nile season.

Today, in a paper in the open access journal ZooKeys, a team of bat biologists led by Don Buden of the College of Micronesia published a wealth of new information on this «forgotten» species, including the first detailed observations of wild populations.

While conducting their biannual survey of the local bat population, his surveyors had walked into a cave near Albany and found themselves surrounded by death.

A major factor in the increase has been the growing numbers of livestock across the continent, which has allowed vampire bat populations to more than double in some places.

Women have much higher prevalence and activity of BAT, which was related independently and inversely to age in both sexes, but only to BMI in males and only to VAT in females, in a large population - based study (29).

Eating up to two - thirds of their body weight in insects every night, bats help suppress insect populations, ultimately reducing crop damage and the quantities of insecticides used on crops.

The purpose of her research is to support data - driven surveillance strategies and management options for mitigating impacts of WNS on hibernating bat populations.

A delay in regulatory approval for deployment of our solution would reduce our ability to protect bat populations from this disease.

Infected bat populations of several species have declined over 90 % and a few species may become regionally extirpated or extinct in the next decade.

We are asking for the public's participation to help us identify bat colony sites and carry out counts of those colonies in order to monitor bat population trends.

With her beloved family at stake, not to mention Gale's, Katniss doesn't bat an eye when agreeing, but there's something about her innate defiance that unsettles the President, and hence, the next games the 75th annual ones, won't find their tributes from the general populations of each district as is the custom, but rather from the pool of victors, making the battle all the more deadly, and Katniss more worried about Peeta than herself.

As I watched a local population of little brown myotis bats wake up and hunt for some breakfast this late summer evening, I was surprised to see a blinking firefly hovering in my yard.

So far this year, Austin has experienced more than ninety days of 100 degree heat, keeping both the city's native Mexican free - tailed bat population (and fixed - gear - riding hipster population) in the shade for most of the day.

Follow the scientific method as a group of researchers notice something wrong with the little brown bat population and search for a way to save them.

Contracting the virus in this way is rare but it can occur, often in caves with a large population of bats, where the virus is widespread.

«In the short - term, we hope to develop a topical rabies vaccine that can be used to decrease the prevalence of rabies in targeted bat populations,» said Dr. Stading.

More than 1,300 species of bats roam the planet playing ecological roles that are vital to natural ecosystems and human economies — from pollinating plants and keeping insect populations in check, to making valuable fertilizer (guano) and dispersing seeds.

This is a significant problem in Central and South America where bat populations are regularly culled by topical delivery of an anticoagulant poison.

Dr. Stading said effective control of rabies in bat populations would have the added benefit of reducing the stigma against bats that rabies has caused during the last century.

The virus, which occurs naturally in the flying fox (or fruit bat) population of the region, can be transmitted from the bat to horse, which then can transmit it to other horses and humans.

About 500 population monkeys in this forest, inside of the forest there is very old temple (Alas Kedaton Temple), big fruit bats hanging in high tree during the day time and will go to outside for feed in the night time.

About 500 population monkeys in this forest, inside of the forest there is very old temple called Pura Bukit Sari (Alas Kedaton Temple), big fruit bats hanging in high tree during the day time and will go to outside for feed in the night time.

Ongoing monitoring efforts are measuring changes in amphibian and reptile population biology in response to pig removal on Santa Cruz Island, the number of bats occupying important maternity colonies on Santa Cruz, and mouse population dynamics as they relate to changes in fox numbers on San Miguel Island.

Range The Townsend's big - eared bat occurs throughout the west and is distributed from the southern portion of British Columbia south along the Pacific coast to central Mexico and east into the Great Plains, with isolated populations occurring in the central and eastern United States.

Animal life in the cave includes a large population of bats, large fresh water crabs, crayfish, catfish and other tropical fish, Large invertebrates like Amblypygi and various predatory spiders also inhabit the cave.

An individual bat can consume its body weight in insects in a night, so the loss of a regional population of millions of bats adds up to a huge number of uneaten insects in the night sky.

Since disturbance or loss of habitat negatively affects bat populations, forest companies want to know how to effectively manage the land while reducing impacts to wildlife communities.