Research – Human-Wildlife Interactions

Our Lab’s Research Areas

Distribution and population status of imperiled bats
- We lead the Midwest Bat Hub of the North American Bat Monitoring Program
- From 2018-2020, we studied the distribution of the federally endangered gray bat in North Carolina. One of the products from this work is a manual for determining bat presence at bridges.
Human-wildlife interactions in urban areas
Bats in anthropogenic structures
- See tips for making bat boxes safer for bats
- Listen to a conversation about bat boxes with Frank Tillman and Joy O’Keefe
Ecosystem services of forest-dwelling bats
Wildlife health and ecology in managed forests
- Read about the foraging behavior of Myotis bats in a managed forest in Indiana
Urban ecology of bats in small cities
- See the Bats in Small Cities Project