Avoiding a conservation pitfall: Considering the risks of unsuitably hot bat boxes: Adding context to Crawford & O'Keefe

As practitioners of mitigation and conservation of bats, we think use of artificial bat roosts contribute to bat conservation and should be encouraged. Problems with boxes identified by Reed and O'Keefe also exist with natural roosts, and they are more readily studied and managed with artificia...

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Published inConservation science and practice Vol. 3; no. 12
Main Authors Brack, Virgil, Sparks, Dale W.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Chichester, UK John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 01.12.2021
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Wiley
Subjects
artificial roost
bat box
Bats
Boxes
Conservation
Design
Endangered & extinct species
endangered species
Indiana bat
microclimate
Mitigation
Myotis septentrionalis
Myotis sodalis
northern‐long‐eared bat
roost temperature
Roosts
Wildlife conservation
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Summary:As practitioners of mitigation and conservation of bats, we think use of artificial bat roosts contribute to bat conservation and should be encouraged. Problems with boxes identified by Reed and O'Keefe also exist with natural roosts, and they are more readily studied and managed with artificial than natural roosts. Use of boxes also provides an opportunity for citizen science, but more importantly engenders citizen conservation.
ISSN:2578-4854
2578-4854
DOI:10.1111/csp2.563