1. North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat)

2. Core Team & Supporters Susan Loeb, USFS-SRS Jeremy Coleman, USFWS Laura Ellison, USGS Tom Rodhouse, NPS Tom Ingersoll, DoD Cori Lausen, WCS Canada Wayne Thogmartin, USGS Kathi Irvine, USGS John Sauer, USGS Jonathan Reichard, USFWS

3. The Need to Monitor 1)Bat Banding Program (BBP) – US Biological Survey/USFWS

4. The Need to Monitor 1)Bat Banding Program (BBP) US Biological Survey/USFWS 2) Endangered Species Monitoring

5. The Need to Monitor 1) Bat Banding Program (BBP) US Biological Survey/USFWS 2) Endangered Species Monitoring 3) Estes Park

7. National State, Federal, Tribal Response Plan

8. National Plan Working Groups

10. Goal 1: Develop and validate rapid-assessment monitoring plans to determine differences in susceptibility among species, and identify which species are most vulnerable to extinction due to WNS.

12. Loeb & Winters 2013 Humphries et al. 2002 Indiana Bat Summer Distribution Little Brown Bat Winter Distribution

14. North American Bat Monitoring Program -- NABat Vision: A coordinated effort that promotes effective decision-making and long-term viability of NA bats Mission: Provide architecture for coordinated bat monitoring to support local, regional and range-wide inferences about trends in bat populations and abundances

15. North American Bat Monitoring Program -- NABat Vision: A coordinated effort that promotes effective decision-making and long-term viability of NA bats Mission: Provide architecture for coordinated bat monitoring to support local, regional and range-wide inferences about trends in bat distributions and abundances

16. NABat Fundamental Question: How do trends in NA bat distributions & abundances vary over geographic extents and time periods in relation to WNS, wind energy, CC & conservation actions? Application: Evaluation of extinction risk and population status at local and regional scales to support conservation planning

17. NABat Fundamental Question: How do trends in NA bat distributions & abundances vary over geographic extents and time periods in relation to WNS, wind energy, CC & conservation actions? Application: Evaluation of extinction risk and population status at local and regional scales to support conservation planning

18. The Process Collaborative International Series of 4 workshop

19. Targeted Species 47 Species – Common to US, Canada, Mexico

20. Monitoring Methods Acoustic Surveys – Mobile Transects – Stationary Points Colony Counts – Hibernacula – Maternity Colonies

21. Sampling Design- 10 x 10 km grid

22. Sampling Design Generalized Randomized Tessellation Stratified (GRTS) Sample Spatially balanced approach Flexible – Grid cells can be dropped for logistical reasons – Grid cells assigned weights or inclusion probabilities – Can include some samples outside design

23. Sampling Design Any subset of grid cells is also random and balanced Can “over-sample” DoD lands

25. Response Design

26. Respose Design-Acoustics --25-48 km transect -2 nights --2-4 point surveys -4 nights

27. Response Design-Colony Counts Short-term approach – Strengthen current monitoring efforts by states – Standardized protocols & co-variates – No attempt to fit into grid Long-term approach – Use grid to search for new colonies

28. Implementation

30. Grid Assignment Example

31. Caveats/Concerns Acoustic identification – Many models, which is correct? – Metadata – Archive original data – Robustness to false +’s and –’s? Unknown hibernacula – Particularly in western NA Better/alternate analyses?

32. Data Management Bat Population Data (BPD) Project – USGS, Fort Collins – https://my.usgs.gov/bpd/ https://my.usgs.gov/bpd/

33. Data Management Data Partnerships – Allow NABat access – Restrict other access

34. Analysis & Products Plan General Technical Report Analyses – State, regional, and rangewide analysis – Distribution & abundance State of North American Bats Report