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- Title: Bats of Assateague Island National Seashore, Maryland (Report)
- Author : The American Midland Naturalist
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Life Sciences,Books,Science & Nature,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 198 KB
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INTRODUCTION Much recent attention has focused on the conservation and management of bats because of their roles in ecosystems and as possible indicator species (Fenton, 2003; Miller et al., 2003). However, to make informed management decisions regarding bats, collecting baseline inventory data is a necessary initial undertaking. Although a general assessment of bat species composition for a given area can be determined by examining published geographic ranges, verifying the presence and relative frequency of species through an inventory process facilitates more informed and accurate management decisions. Moreover, baseline inventories may be especially useful in areas located on peripheries of geographic ranges. For example, the bat community composition on Maryland's Coastal Plain may be more similar to those of the southeastern United States than to those of the Appalachian Mountains (Limpert et al., 2007). Some bat species, including northern yellow bats (Lasiurus intermedius) and Seminole bats (L. seminolus), have geographic ranges with northern limits extending into Virginia, and a few extralimital records in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York (Poole, 1932, 1949; Layne, 1955; Koopman, 1965). There are accounts of Rafinesque's big-eared bats (Corynorhinus rafinesquii), southeastern myotis (Myotis austroriparius) and Brazilian free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) occurring as far north as southeastern Virginia (VADGIF, 2005).