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. 2020 Oct 22;15(10):e0241052. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0241052

Table 1. Summary of bat activity across forested sites in Montana using acoustic recording units deployed year-round from 2011–2019.

Species Total filtered auto-identified detections Sites with manually confirmed presence (n = 41) Calendar months with manually confirmed presence (n = 12)
Corynorhinus townsendii 286a 21 5
Eptesicus fuscus 419,335 34 12
Euderma maculatum 527 8 8
Lasionycteris noctivagans 364,152 37 12
Lasiurus borealis 104,724b 16 5
Lasiurus cinereus 262,867 39 7
Myotis californicusckc 112,147 15 9
Myotis ciliolabrumc 100,889 32 12
Myotis evotis 52,912 39 9
Myotis lucifugus 221,886 39 10
Myotis thysanodes 3,750 16 7
Myotis volans 42,001d 7d 3d
Myotis yumanensis 44,495 15 8
(unidentified) 3,645,255 NA NA

Bolded species are known or suspected to be affected by WNS; underlined species are documented carriers of Pseudogymnoascus destructans without WNS [42].

a Rarely detected away from roosts due to very quiet calls; auto-identified calls may be confused with other species.

b Auto-identified calls are frequently confused with M. lucifugus; most of these calls may be M. lucifugus.

c M. californicus and M. ciliolabrum not yet been documented with WNS, but are both believed to be susceptible given impacts to closely related M. leibii in the eastern U.S.

d Definitive characteristics for hand confirmation rarely encountered for M. volans; unable to assess accuracy of auto-identified call sequences, but proportion of call volume appears consistent with proportion of capture data in Montana.