Date of Award
8-11-2018
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Biology, MS
First Advisor
Thomas Risch
Committee Members
Anna Doty; Virginie Rolland
Call Number
LD 251 .A566t 2018 B84
Abstract
The goal of this study was to evaluate evening bat (Nycticeius humeralis) habitat use and provide a proxy strategy to evaluate habitat use by other species. I used the software Maximum Entropy to evaluate habitat suitability models for evening bats using three different modeling strategies; percent variable contribution, the jackknife test, and variable response curves. The predictors included in the models were 10 land use land cover classes, four forest management strategies, slope, and the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI). The results of this research showed that distance to burned stands and proximity to edge habitat are the most important habitat features when determining probability of presence of evening bats in the study site. Habitat suitability maps were also generated to predict evening bat presence other areas of the habitat. These predictions were successful according to field technician observations, lending credibility to the predictive power of this analysis software.
Rights Management
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Recommended Citation
Buckley, Megan Lynn, "Management Implications of Sex-Specific Habitat Use by Nycticeius Humeralis in North-Central Arkansas" (2018). Student Theses and Dissertations. 498.
https://arch.astate.edu/all-etd/498
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