Reposted by Lancaster Bats
Big. Old. Trees. (with defects like peeling bark, holes, cracks, crevices). TAKE A LONG TIME TO DEVELOP.
New paper out estimates that it takes a century for a good roost tree to develop in eastern forests. For western bats - that could be much longer. 🦇
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Tree roosts used by an endangered bat require almost a century to develop
As a forest-dependent species, the endangered Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) is reliant on large-diameter tree roosts (hereafter, “roosts”), which are u…