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Volume 52, 2011 BAT RESEARCH NEWS VOLUME 52: NO. 1 SPRING 2011 BAT RESEARCH NEWS VOLUME 52: NUMBER 1 SPRING 2011 Table of Contents Book Review Bats of Ohio by Virgil Brack, Jr., Dale W. Sparks, John O. Whitaker, Jr., Brianne L. Walters, and Angela Boyer Michael Lacki . 1 Letter from the Editor Margaret Griffiths . 3 Recent Literature Jacques Veilleux . 4 Announcements and Future Meetings . 11 VOLUME 52: NUMBER 2 SUMMER 2011 Table of Contents A Five-year Assessment of Mortality and Geographic Spread of White-nose Syndrome in North American Bats and a Look to the Future Gregory G. Turner, DeeAnn M. Reeder, and Jeremy T. H. Coleman . 13 Observations of Eastern Red Bats (Lasiurus borealis) 160 Kilometers from the Coast of Nova Scotia Zenon Czenze, Sarah N. P. Wong, and Craig K. R. Willis . 28 Recent Literature . 31 Announcements and Future Meetings . 36 Advertisement . 38 i BAT RESEARCH NEWS VOLUME 52: NUMBER 3 FALL 2011 Table of Contents Letter from the Editor Margaret Griffiths . vi Opportunistic Consumption of Blood from Pallas’s Long-tongued Bat, Glossophaga soricina, by the Common Vampire, Desmodus rotundus, in Brazil Renan de França Souza, Camila Sant’Anna, Mariana V.P. Aguiar, André C. Siqueira, Davi C. Tavares, Rafael S. Laurindo, and Roberto Leonan M. Novaes . 39 Letter to the Editor Substitutability of Bats in Agricultural Systems: Why Ecosystem Valuation Is Not Likely to Sway Agricultural Interests Wayne E. Thogmartin . 41 Recent Literature Jacques Veilleux . 45 Announcements and Future Meetings . 51 VOLUME 52: NUMBER 4 WINTER 2011 Table of Contents Letter to the Editor Retention of the Common Name Eastern Pipistrelle for Perimyotis subflavus John O. Whitaker, Jr., Allen Kurta, and Timothy C. Carter . 53 Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 41st Annual North American Symposium on Bat Research, Toronto, Ontario Compiled by Gary Kwiecinski and Frank Bonaccorso Edited by Margaret Griffiths . 55 List of Participants at the 41st Annual North American Symposium on Bat Research Compiled by Judith Eger and Burton Lim . 117 Recent Literature Jacques Veilleux . 124 Announcements and Future Meetings . 130 ii BAT RESEARCH NEWS VOLUME 52: NUMBER 1 SPRING 2011 Table of Contents Table of Contents . i Book Review Bats of Ohio by Virgil Brack, Jr., Dale W. Sparks, John O. Whitaker, Jr., Brianne L. Walters, and Angela Boyer Michael Lacki . 1 Letter from the Editor Margaret Griffiths . 3 Recent Literature Jacques Veilleux . 4 Announcements and Future Meetings . 11 Front Cover Uroderma bilobatum (the common tent-making bat) in Costa Rica, by Jason Collins. Many thanks to Jason for sharing the photo with us. Copyright 2011. All rights reserved. i BAT RESEARCH NEWS Volume 52: Number 1 Spring 2011 Publisher and Managing Editor: Dr. Margaret A. Griffiths, CB 257, 700 College Place, Lycoming College, Williamsport PA 17701; TEL 570-321-4399, FAX 570-321-4073; E-mail: [email protected] OR [email protected] Editor for Feature Articles: Dr. Allen Kurta, Dept. of Biology, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti MI 48197; TEL 734-487-1174, FAX 734-487-9235; E-mail: [email protected] Editor for Recent Literature: Dr. Jacques P. Veilleux, Dept. of Biology, Franklin Pierce University, Rindge NH 03461; TEL 603-899-4259, FAX 603-899-4389; 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. Bat Research News also includes abstracts of presentations at bat conferences around the world, letters to the editors, news submitted by our readers, notices and requests, and announcements of future bat conferences worldwide. In addition, Bat Research News provides a listing of recent bat-related articles that were published in English. Bat Research News is abstracted in several databases (e.g., BIOSIS). Communications concerning feature articles and “Letters to the Editor” should be addressed to Al Kurta, recent literature items to Jacques Veilleux, and conservation items and all other correspondence to Margaret Griffiths. (Contact information is listed above.) The prices for one volume-year (4 issues within a single volume) are: Institutional/Group subscriptions US $50.00 Individual subscriptions: printed edition (U.S.A.) US $25.00 printed edition (outside U.S.A) US $35.00 Subscriptions may be paid by check or money order, payable to “Bat Research News.” Please include both mailing (postal) and e-mail addresses with your payment, and send to Dr. Margaret Griffiths at the address listed above. To pay by credit card (Visa or MasterCard only) or for further information, please go to the Bat Research News website at http://www.batresearchnews.org/ and click on the "Subscription Information" link. Back issues of Bat Research News are available for a small fee. Please contact Dr. Margaret Griffiths ([email protected]) for more information regarding back issues. Thank you! Bat Research News is ISSN # 0005-6227. Bat Research News is printed and mailed at Lycoming College, Williamsport, Pennsylvania 17701 U.S.A. This issue printed March 15, 2011. Copyright 2011 Bat Research News. All rights reserved. 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 BOOK REVIEW bats, the interplay of bats and humans, and conservation of bats. The final section Bats of Ohio. Virgil Brack, Jr., Dale W. includes 11 species accounts, preceded by an Sparks, John O. Whitaker, Jr., Brianne L. easy-to-follow dichotomous key to the bats of Walters, and Angela Boyer. Indiana State Ohio. After the species accounts, a glossary of University Center for North American Bat terms is provided for those less familiar with Research and Conservation, Terre Haute, bats. The book ends with a bibliography that Indiana. 92 pp., 2010. Softcover: ISBN: 978- includes two sections: literature relevant to 0-9817096-3-5 ($10 U.S.) bats in Ohio and a lengthy listing of recent, unpublished studies by environmental Bats of Ohio is a long overdue and much consultants, which is helpful to those needed synthesis of the ecology, distribution, interested in studying bats in the state. and conservation needs of bats in Ohio. The introduction sets the tone of the book Considerable research and survey efforts have with folklore, taxonomy, and some of the been completed in the state during the past basics of bat biology, such as echolocation, two decades and the information available on feeding ecology, and reproduction. The these bats has grown accordingly. The last section on parasites of bats in Ohio is a nice effort to describe the bats in the state was in addition not regularly found in similar Gotttschang’s (1981) A Guide to the publications. The chapter titled “A Year in the Mammals of Ohio. This current volume Life of a Bat in Ohio” describes the staging, provides an excellent and up-to-date overview maternity, swarming, and hibernation seasons of the assemblage of bats in Ohio, placing a of bats. The section on hibernation is strong and much needed emphasis on especially well done. In this section and conservation issues. The five authors bring elsewhere in the volume, the authors considerable years of experience working periodically raise questions about bats and with bats in Ohio and are experts on these their ecology, facilitating the reader to think species in the state. more in depth about the subject. The next The layout of the book is similar to recent chapter briefly explains field methods for publications from the Indiana State University studying bats, emphasizing capture, radio- Center for North American Bat Research and tracking, ultrasonic detection, and dietary Conservation, such as Bats of Indiana by analyses. The chapter “Threats and Causes of Whitaker et al. (2007) and Bats of Michigan Decline” describes primary threats to bats and by Kurta (2008). Included are county-based stresses habitat fragmentation, pesticides, distribution maps of the nine most common wind power, and white-nose syndrome. The species, one table comparing morphological chapter “Bats and Humans” indicates both characteristics of the different species of positive and negative aspects of bat/human Myotis, and 59 figures, mostly in color, that interactions and contains a ‘how to’ cover all species of bats in Ohio, some of description of bat houses and their use. The their common insect prey, and parasites for discussion of rabies in bats is very which these bats are hosts. The latter two sets informative. The subsequent chapter “Bat of figures are an interesting addition to the Conservation” is a bit dry to read, volume for scientists, managers, and emphasizing codes and listings of non- laypersons alike. The book is organized into governmental organizations that target bat seven chapters, including an introduction, a conservation. description of the annual cycle of bats in the The final chapter provides accounts for all state, methods for studying bats, threats to 11 species of bats currently or formerly © 2011 Bat Research News. All rights reserved. 2 Bat Research News Volume 52: No. 1 known to occur in Ohio. The accounts are stating that Lasiurus cinereus is the second well written and use the authors own largest bat in the United States even though examples of work or observations of bats in there are multiple species in the Southwest the state that add context and make the book that exceed the hoary bat in mass and more interesting and relevant to Ohio. The dimensions. The authors mix the use of old accounts are organized according to the and new common names for Perimyotis perceived abundance of each species in the subflavus throughout the text and even within state and vary in length, likely based on the same image (Map 5); the book would existing knowledge and the authors own have been better served if one of the two had experiences with each species.
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