PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Tara Luna
AU  - Daniel L Lindner
AU  - R Kasten Dumroese
TI  - Growing hickories (<em>Carya</em> spp.) for roost trees: A Method to Support Conservation of Declining Bat Populations
AID  - 10.3368/npj.15.1.66
DP  - 2014 Mar 20
TA  - Native Plants Journal
PG  - 66--74
VI  - 15
IP  - 1
4099  - http://npj.uwpress.org/content/15/1/66.short
4100  - http://npj.uwpress.org/content/15/1/66.full
SO  - NATIVE PLANTS JOURNAL2014 Mar 20; 15
AB  - Bats (Vespertilionidae and Phyllostomidae) are a critically important component of North American ecosystems. These insectivorous mammals provide largely unrecognized ecosystem services to agriculture and forest health and sustain bat-dependent native plant populations. The decline of North American bat populations reflects the recent emergence of the fungal disease white nose syndrome (WNS); susceptibility to pollutants; and rapid changes occurring in the North American landscape, such as energy development and associated forest fragmentation and loss. Hickories (Carya L. spp. [Juglandaceae]) are an important roost tree for bats in the eastern US, and we describe how to propagate them in bareroot nurseries. TLunaDLLindnerRKDumroese 2014. Growing hickories (Carya spp.) for roost trees: a method to support conservation of declining bat populations. Native Plants Journal 15( 1): 66- 74.