{"id":493,"date":"2013-09-09T15:38:02","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T19:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/bjsewall\/?p=493"},"modified":"2013-09-12T00:17:09","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T04:17:09","slug":"new-publication-demonstrates-marked-bat-declines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/bjsewall\/2013\/09\/09\/new-publication-demonstrates-marked-bat-declines\/","title":{"rendered":"New publication demonstrates marked bat declines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Sewall has published a new article demonstrating marked population declines in four bat species of the eastern United States.\u00a0 The article, published in the journal PLOS One,\u00a0shows that over the past 13 years, a once-common bat species known as the little brown bat or little brown myotis (<em>Myotis lucifugus<\/em>) has declined 71%.\u00a0 In addition, the three other bat species studied &#8211; tri-colored bats (<em>Perimyotis subflavus<\/em>), Indiana myotis (<em>Myotis sodalis<\/em>), and northern myotis (<em>Myotis septentrionalis<\/em>) &#8211;\u00a0have all declined by at least 30% during the same time period.\u00a0 This result suggests that white-nose syndrome and a range of other threats together\u00a0pose a grave menace to the long-term persistence of these hibernating bat species.\u00a0 The article also presented a statistical method with broad application for understanding changes in populations over time for bats and other wildlife species.\u00a0 The article was written in partnership with collaborators Thomas Ingersoll of the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis and Sybill Amelon of the U.S. Forest Service.\u00a0 Drs. Sewall and Ingersoll are equal co-lead authors on the paper.<\/p>\n<p>The article is available freely via Open Access at: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.plos.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0065907\">http:\/\/dx.plos.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0065907<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Sewall has published a new article demonstrating marked population declines in four bat species of the eastern United States.\u00a0 The article, published in the journal PLOS One,\u00a0shows that over the past 13 years, a once-common bat species known as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/bjsewall\/2013\/09\/09\/new-publication-demonstrates-marked-bat-declines\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":727,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sewall","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/bjsewall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/bjsewall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/bjsewall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/bjsewall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/727"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/bjsewall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/bjsewall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/bjsewall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/bjsewall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/bjsewall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}