Please provide a brief update of the bat-related work that you have done this past season so that we can include it in an update for our state/province/territory. Announcements or upcoming events are also welcome. We will forward these on to the editors for posting in the Bulletin Board/Upcoming Events sections.
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ARIZONA
Submission from Angie McIntire
Bat Foraging Ecology along the South Fork Eel River, Mendocino County, California
Beth Hagen, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, PO Box 874601, Tempe, Arizona 85287 (480) 727-7743, Elizabeth.M.Hagen@asu.edu and Bill Rainey, Departments of Integrative Biology and Earth and Planetary Science, University of California Berkley
During the summer of 2006, we measured bat and insect activity along the South Fork Eel River in Mendocino County, California. The purpose of this research was to address the following questions: 1) How do structural features of the riverine landscape influence bat foraging ecology? and 2) How do riverine derived food resources influence bat foraging ecology? We hypothesized that river channel geomorphology and vegetation structure will control the location and abundance of insect aggregations resulting in selective foraging by bats in these areas and that riverine derived subsidies will provide a critical food resource during parts of the year when terrestrial food resources are less available.
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