Emerging Disease Causes Regional Population Collapse of a Common North American Bat Species

White-nose syndrome (WNS) is an emerging disease affecting hibernating bats in eastern North America that causes mass mortality and precipitous population declines in winter hibernacula. First discovered in 2006 in New York State, WNS is spreading rapidly across eastern North America and currently a...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 2010-08, Vol.329 (5992), p.679-682
Hauptverfasser:	Frick, Winifred F, Pollock, Jacob F, Hicks, Alan C, Langwig, Kate E, Reynolds, D. Scott, Turner, Gregory G, Butchkoski, Calvin M, Kunz, Thomas H
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Americas Animal diseases Animal populations Animal, plant and microbial ecology Animals Animals, Wild Applied ecology Ascomycota Bats Biodiversity Biological and medical sciences Canada - epidemiology Chiroptera - microbiology Chiroptera - physiology Collapse Communicable Diseases, Emerging - epidemiology Communicable Diseases, Emerging - microbiology Communicable Diseases, Emerging - mortality Communicable Diseases, Emerging - veterinary Conservation, protection and management of environment and wildlife Depopulation Dermatomycoses - epidemiology Dermatomycoses - microbiology Dermatomycoses - veterinary Ecosystem Emerging diseases Extinct species Extinction, Biological Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology Hibernation Infections Integrity Models, Statistical Mortality Nonlinear Dynamics Parks, reserves, wildlife conservation. Endangered species: population survey and restocking Population Dynamics Population growth Population growth rate Population Surveillance Regional Species Spreading Stochastic Processes Syndrome United States - epidemiology Wildlife conservation Wildlife management Winter
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