[OHIOBWG] FW: Indiana bat roost data request

[Titchenell, Marne]

Please help Tim Cater collect Indiana roost data - see his request below.

[The Ohio State University]
Marne A. Titchenell

Wildlife Program Specialist

Ohio State University Extension
School of Environment and Natural Resources

210 Kottman Hall, 2021 Coffey Rd, Columbus, OH 43210

614-292-0402  Office
titchenell.4 at osu.edu<mailto:titchenell.4 at osu.edu>

woodlandstewards.osu.edu<http://woodlandstewards.osu.edu>


From: Carter, Tim [mailto:tccarter at bsu.edu]
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2014 10:50 AM
To: MWBWG at LISTSERV.BSU.EDU
Subject: Indiana bat roost data request

MWBWG - Mailing List ----------------------------------------

Hello everyone,

The federally endangered Indiana bat is known to use roosts with different characteristics throughout its distribution. For example, Indiana bat populations within Midwestern and Southern (Appalachian) landscapes differ in their use of tree species and roosting habitat. Variation in roost use by the species' even exists between relatively close populations. For example, the Indianapolis International Airport's population uses anthropogenic roosts to an extent not observed in other Midwestern populations. In order to determine how extensive this variation in roost use is across the species' distribution, and whether there is an underlying common trait(s), we are conducting a distribution wide study using standardized methods of data collection.

Unfortunately, I am unable to conduct research everywhere at once; chiefly due to the fact that there is not enough coffee in the world to conduct such a feat. Understanding such unfortunate limitations, we here at the Center for Bat Research, Outreach, and Conservation thought that we would request the help of our friends and fellow researchers to complete this task.

Those of you who are planning on working with Indiana bats over the next few summers, please see the datasheet, and protocol for an overview of what I am planning. We would greatly appreciate it, if you would consider sharing your data with us (and potentially collecting data on a few more variables). The attached protocol is simple and will not increase workloads for those of you that are already conducting radio-telemetry on the species. Additionally, all volunteers will be acknowledged in all manuscripts and presentations generated as a result of this research undertaking.

This is the 2nd year in which we have requested data. Last year we were able to collect data on 209 Indiana bat roosts located in 16 counties and 6 states. We are very grateful for all the data we received. However, many holes remain in our data. Most of the data we received came from the Central Midwest and Southern Appalachians. In order to be able to analyze roosts throughout the species' distribution we need to collect data from other sections of the species' distribution as well.

[cid:image001.png at 01CF49A9.C1FDF360]

The research described here, and the attached protocol, have been reviewed by the Bloomington Field Office of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Please contact me (using the contact information below) if you would like to help out or want more information. Additionally, this will be a multi-year long undertaking. Therefore, if you are unable to help out this year, please consider sharing your data with us during a future summer.

Thank you,


-Scott


Scott M. Bergeson
PhD Student
Department of Biology, Science 281
600 Chestnut St.
Indiana State University
Terre Haute, IN 47809
Office phone: (812) 237-2425<tel:%28812%29%20237-2425>
smbergeson at gmail.com<mailto:smbergeson at gmail.com>
sbergeson at sycamores.indstate.edu<mailto:sbergeson at sycamores.indstate.edu>

--------------------------------------------------------- Midwest Bat Working Group Mailing List (www.mwbwg.org<http://www.mwbwg.org>) To remove yourself from this list or to change your e-mail address please send a reply to this e-mail with the appropriate information.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osu.edu/pipermail/ohiobwg/attachments/20140327/1f4ee3a3/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image001.png
Type: image/png
Size: 114825 bytes
Desc: image001.png
URL: <http://lists.osu.edu/pipermail/ohiobwg/attachments/20140327/1f4ee3a3/attachment.png>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image002.png
Type: image/png
Size: 3605 bytes
Desc: image002.png
URL: <http://lists.osu.edu/pipermail/ohiobwg/attachments/20140327/1f4ee3a3/attachment-0001.png>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: Bergeson_MYSO rangewide_datasheet2014.xlsx
Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
Size: 13810 bytes
Desc: Bergeson_MYSO rangewide_datasheet2014.xlsx
URL: <http://lists.osu.edu/pipermail/ohiobwg/attachments/20140327/1f4ee3a3/attachment.xlsx>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: Bergeson_MYSO rangewide_standardized protocol2014.docx
Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
Size: 270490 bytes
Desc: Bergeson_MYSO rangewide_standardized protocol2014.docx
URL: <http://lists.osu.edu/pipermail/ohiobwg/attachments/20140327/1f4ee3a3/attachment.docx>