RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Growing hickories (Carya spp.) for roost trees: A Method to Support Conservation of Declining Bat Populations JF Native Plants Journal JO NATIVE PLANTS JOURNAL FD University of Wisconsin Press SP 66 OP 74 DO 10.3368/npj.15.1.66 VO 15 IS 1 A1 Tara Luna A1 Daniel L Lindner A1 R Kasten Dumroese YR 2014 UL http://npj.uwpress.org/content/15/1/66.abstract 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.