Table 1:

Wilcoxon median rank sum test results for comparisons of total bat activity, species specific bat activity, diversity indices, and species richness between the control and proposed wetland/wetland sites before the wetland construction (November 19^th, 2016 – March 14^th, 2017) and after the wetland construction (March 15^th, 2017 – March 28^th, 2018). For pre-construction control vs proposed wetland bat activity comparisons n = 177, diversity indices and species richness comparisons n = 17. For post-construction control vs wetland bat activity comparisons n = 692, diversity indices and species richness comparisons n = 55. Significant p-values are in bold.

	Pre-construction				Post-construction
	Control median	Proposed wetland median	Median of differences between control vs proposed wetland	p	Control median	Wetland median	Median of differences between control vs wetland	p
Total Activity	4	5	−1.10×10−5	0.407	20	47	−7.00	<0.001
EPTFUS Activity	1	0.5	6.71×10−5	0.263	5	17.5	−4.00	<0.001
LASBOR Activity	0	0	−1.02×10−5	0.001	0	0	−6.57×10−6	<0.001
LASCIN Activity	1	1	−2.05×10−5	0.001	0	0	−1.00×10−5	0.016
LASNOC Activity	0	0	4.72×10−5	0.562	0	1	−4.09×10−5	<0.001
NYCHUM Activity	0	0	1.10×10−5	0.478	0	2	−1.00	<0.001
PERSUB Activity	0	0	−3.65×10−5	0.009	0	0	−2.00×10−5	<0.001
TADBRA Activity	0	0	−1.02×10−5	0.382	0	0.5	−3.76×10−5	0.002
Shannon’s Index	0.97	1.13	0.12	0.463	0.94	1.09	−0.16	0.019
Simpson’s Index	0.47	0.62	0.07	0.364	0.44	0.52	−0.06	0.049
Species Richness	6	5	5.81×10−5	0.946	6	7	−3.50×10−5	0.050