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When Detecting Bats, Methods Matter
If you want to record bat calls in summer, go early. Detectors recorded significantly more high-quality call files during late June and early July than August. USDA Forest Service research ecologist Susan Loeb and colleagues published results from a bat detection survey in Acta Chiropterologica.
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- Long-term effects of succession, climate change and insect disturbance on oak-pine forest composition in the U.S. Central Hardwood Region
Duan, Shengwu; He, H. S.; Spetich, M.A.; Wang, W.J.; Fraser, J.; Xu, W. Published Nov. - The response of coarse root biomass to long‐term CO 2 enrichment and nitrogen application in a maturing Pinus taeda stand with a large broadleaved component
Maier, Chris A.; Johnsen, Kurt H.; Anderson, Pete H.; Palmroth, Sari; Kim, Dohyoung; McCarthy, Heather R.; Oren, Ram. - Context dependency of disease‐mediated competitive release in bat assemblages following white‐nose syndrome
Bombaci, Sara P.; Russell, Robin E.; St. Germain, Michael J.; Dobony, Christopher A.; Ford, W. Mark; Loeb, Susan C.; Jachowski, David S. - Bats and fire: a global review
Loeb, Susan C.; Blakey, Rachel V. - Fire Ecology and Management in Eastern Broadleaf and Appalachian Forests
Arthur, Mary A.; Varner, J. Morgan.; Lafon, Charles W.; Alexander, Heather D.; Dey, Daniel C.; Harper, Craig A.; Horn, Sally P.; Hutchinson, Todd F.; Keyser, Tara L.; Lashley, Marcus A.; Moorman, Christopher E.; Schweitzer, Callie J.