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Research & Consulting Services
Research and Consulting
is conducted for private and government organizations needing information
on bat related issues. Scientific information on
species diversity and populations is gathered during surveys using bat
detectors (both hand-held & Anabat), mist nets / harp
traps, radio-telemetry, visual surveys & a professionally scent trained bat dog. Data loggers (HOBO
and Campbell) are used to monitor environmental parameters of known
and experimental roost sites.
Several of our research
projects are listed below (1990 present) =
FBN Research
Projects
- National
Park Service: species inventory
& monitoring at Everglades, Big Cypress, Biscayne Dry Tortugas,
Buck Island & Virgin Islands National Parks
- South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD): Conduct radio-telemetry study to
identify roost sites and foraging areas of Corynorhinus rafinesquii,
the southeastern big-eared bat, on the Lower Reedy Creek Management
Area. 1998 2000. Repeated 2002 2003.
- SFWMD: Provide design for bat house built for southeastern
big-eared bats on the Disney Wilderness
Preserve (DWP). 1999.
- The
Nature Conservancy and Walt Disney Company: Bat diversity survey on the DWP, Kissimmee, FL. Also monitored population of southeastern
big-eared bats (Corynorhinus rafinesquii macrotis) in abandoned
structure and new bat houses on this site. 1995-2000.
- United
States Forest Service (USFS): species diversity survey = Ocala National Forest
- United
States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS): South Florida rare bat survey = focus on
Florida mastiff bat (Eumops floridanus)
- Florida
Cooperative Research Unit/USGS: SAR (Species at Risk) bat survey at Camp Blanding, a Florida Army
National Guard facility
- Florida
Natural Areas Inventory (FNAI): NAS Jacksonville, Rodman Bomb Target
- Other
military surveys = Moody AFB, Tyndal AFB, MCRTC (Jacksonville), MCAS (Beaufort, SC)
- County of Volusia, Florida: bat species diversity survey of
county parks. Completed 1998.
- Bat Conservation International (BCI): Study of bat house use in
central Florida. Monitored temperature in
several bat house designs and occupied roosts. 1993-1997.
- BCI:
Assisted in radio-tracking study of the Mexican long-tongued bat (Leptonycteris
curasoae) in Kino Bay,
Sonora, Mexico. 1990.
- Radio tracked bats to assist
researcher Sue Barnard
with A digestion trial on
big brown bats to study on the nutritional needs of insectivorous bats
- 3-D International: Assisted with bat diversity
survey of Cape Canaveral Air
Station, Brevard Co., FL 1996.
- US Naval Air Station at Boca Chica, FL.: Consult on nuisance bats
(Cuban house bats, Molossus molossus) in facility buildings and
on design for bat house to be constructed on property.
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