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BAT RESEARCH NEWS VOLUME 55: NO. 1 SPRING 2014 BAT RESEARCH NEWS VOLUME 55: NUMBER 1 SPRING 2014 Table of Contents Table of Contents . i From the Editor . iii Letters to the Editor Energetics Alone Is Insufficient for Conservation Recommendations for Hibernating Bats Justin G. Boyles and Virgil Brack, Jr. 1 Energy Budgets Are Important to Conservation: a Response to Boyles and Brack Thomas E. Tomasi and Katie M. Day . 5 Attempted Consumption of a Northern Long-eared Bat (Myotis septentrionalis) by an American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) in Tennessee Riley F. Bernard, Mariah T. Patton, Reilly T. Jackson, and Dustin Thames . 7 Recent Literature (Jacques Veilleux) . 9 Announcements . 15 Future Meetings . 16 VOLUME 55: NUMBER 2 SUMMER 2014 Table of Contents Table of Contents . i Protection of Water Wells Used as Winter Roosts by Rafinesque’s Big-eared Bats D. Blake Sasse and David A. Saugey . 17 Letters to the Editor Is White-nose Syndrome Causing Insectivory Release and Altering Ecosystem Function in Eastern North America? David S. Jachowski, Catherine M.B. Jachowski, and W. Mark Ford . 21 Recent Literature (Jodi Sedlock) . 25 Announcements . 40 Future Meetings . 40 VOLUME 55: NUMBER 3 FALL 2014 Table of Contents Table of Contents . i Letters to the Editor A Novel Way to Prevent Mist Nets from Snagging Non-target Species during the Day John Gumbs . 41 In Memoriam Dr. Elizabeth “Dixie” Dixon Pierson 1943–2014 Patricia Brown . 43 Recent Literature . 46 Announcements . 60 Future Meetings . 60 VOLUME 55: NUMBER 4 WINTER 2014 Table of Contents Table of Contents . i Letters to the Editor Tents of Dermanura phaeotis (Phyllostomidae) in Genipa americana (Rubiaceae) Eduardo Artavia Durán and Oscar Cubero Vázquez . 61 Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 44th Annual Meeting of the North American Society for Bat Research, Albany, New York . 64 List of Attendees at the 44th Annual Meeting of the North American Society for Bat Research, Albany, New York . 141 Recent Literature . 150 Announcements . 163 Future Meetings . 163 BAT RESEARCH NEWS VOLUME 55: NUMBER 1 SPRING 2014 Table of Contents Table of Contents . i From the Editor . iii Letters to the Editor Energetics Alone Is Insufficient for Conservation Recommendations for Hibernating Bats Justin G. Boyles and Virgil Brack, Jr. 1 Energy Budgets Are Important to Conservation: a Response to Boyles and Brack Thomas E. Tomasi and Katie M. Day . 5 Attempted Consumption of a Northern Long-eared Bat (Myotis septentrionalis) by an American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) in Tennessee Riley F. Bernard, Mariah T. Patton, Reilly T. Jackson, and Dustin Thames . 7 Recent Literature (Jacques Veilleux) . 9 Announcements . 15 Future Meetings . 16 Front Cover Cave bats across the eastern United States have been hit hard by white-nose syndrome, and populations are down. But here is a tri-colored bat (Perimyotis subflavus) on the wall of Melrose Caverns in central Virginia. It showed no evidence of the fungus on February 23rd, 2014, so some bats are still making it through the winter. Photo courtesy of Keith Christenson. Copyright 2014. All right reserved. i BAT RESEARCH NEWS Volume 55: Number 1 Spring 2014 Publisher and Managing Editor: Dr. Margaret A. Griffiths, 8594 Berwick Circle, Bloomington, IL 61705; E-mail: [email protected] Editor for Feature Articles: Dr. Allen Kurta, Dept. of Biology, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti MI 48197; E-mail: [email protected] Editor for Recent Literature (Spring 2014 issue): Dr. Jacques P. Veilleux, Dept. of Biology, Franklin Pierce University, Rindge NH 03461; E-mail: [email protected] Editor for Recent Literature (beginning immediately): Dr. Jodi L. Sedlock, Lawrence University, 711 E. Boldt Way SPC 24, Appleton, WI 54911; E-mail: [email protected] Emeritus Editor: Dr. G. Roy Horst Bat Research News is published four times each year, consisting of one volume of four issues. Bat Research News publishes short feature articles and general interest notes that are reviewed by at least two scholars in that field. 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All material in this issue is protected by copyright and may not be reproduced, transmitted, posted on a Web site or a listserve, or disseminated in any form or by any means without prior written permission from the Publisher, Dr. Margaret A. Griffiths. ii FROM THE EDITOR Greetings to each of you! It has been a long, hard, and very cold winter here in central Illinois, as I am sure it has been for many of you, and we are more than ready for spring. We hope that warmer weather will be here soon and stay for a good long while, and that with the appearance of spring, our bats will return as well. I have a few announcements. First, to all of you who have renewed your subscriptions to Bat Research News, thank you very much! We sincerely appreciate your continued support. Also welcome to all of our new subscribers! I hope you enjoy our little journal/newsletter and find it both interesting and helpful. My next announcement is bittersweet. Dr. Jacques Veilleux is stepping down as Editor for Recent Literature. When Jacques sent me his final Recent Literature section (which appears in this issue), he wrote, “Thanks for the opportunity to work on BRN. It has been a lot of fun to see all of the work that everyone does.” Please join me in wishing him well in his future endeavors and also in thanking him for his service to BRN and to all of you, the subscribers to BRN. I am very pleased to announce that Dr. Jodi Sedlock will be the new Editor for Recent Literature beginning with the 2014 summer issue. Jodi’s contact information is listed on the BRN website, on the inside front cover, and also at the beginning of the Recent Literature section of this issue. Please welcome Jodi and be sure to send any recent bat-related publications to her for inclusion in the future issues of BRN. What better way to welcome her than by sending her some work! Please consider submitting some of your manuscripts to BRN. Original research and speculative review articles, short to moderate length, on a bat-related topic would be most welcomed. If you are interested, submit your manuscripts as .rtf documents to Al Kurta, Editor for Feature Articles. Notes and letters on bat-related topics also are welcome and should be sent to Al. Send news items, announcements, conservation or education items, cover art, and subscription information to me (Margaret). And remember to send reprints of your recent publications to Jodi. Best wishes for a successful 2014, iii Letters to the Editor Editor’s Note: Unlike technical articles, letters are not peer-reviewed, but they are edited for grammar, style, and clarity. Letters provide an outlet for opinions, speculations, anecdotes, and other interesting observations that, by themselves, may not be sufficient or appropriate for a technical article. Letters should be no longer than two manuscript pages and sent to the Feature Editor. Energetics Alone Is Insufficient for Conservation Recommendations for Hibernating Bats Justin G. Boyles1 and Virgil Brack, Jr.2 1Cooperative Wildlife Research Laboratory and Department of Zoology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale 62901; 2Environmental Solutions and Innovations, 4525 Este Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45232 E-mail: [email protected] We read with concern a new paper on the main reason for clustering is to lessen the winter energetics of the Indiana bat (Myotis cost of arousal (Boyles et al., 2008) and not to sodalis) by Day and Tomasi (2013). These buffer against fluctuations in ambient authors calculate winter energy budgets for temperatures, as suggested by Day and hibernating Indiana bats using standard Tomasi and older literature (Twente, 1955). laboratory procedures. They rely heavily on Although these issues may affect the accuracy older laboratory-based scientific literature but of their energy-budget estimates, they are not fail to include many relevant field studies, the major problem with the study. thus giving, we would argue, an outdated Day and Tomasi focus almost exclusively view of hibernation by cavernicolous bats.