TY - JOUR T1 - Growing hickories (<em>Carya</em> spp.) for roost trees: A Method to Support Conservation of Declining Bat Populations JF - Native Plants Journal JO - NATIVE PLANTS JOURNAL SP - 66 LP - 74 DO - 10.3368/npj.15.1.66 VL - 15 IS - 1 AU - Tara Luna AU - Daniel L Lindner AU - R Kasten Dumroese Y1 - 2014/03/20 UR - http://npj.uwpress.org/content/15/1/66.abstract N2 - 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. ER -