Given the likelihood of regional extirpation of several once-common bat species in eastern North America from white-nose syndrome, it is critical that the impacts of forest management activities, such as prescribed fire, are known in order to minimize potentially additive negative effects on bat populations. Historic wildfires may offer a suitable surrogate to assess long-term burn impacts on bats for planning, implementing and assessing burn programs. To examine the effects of historic fire on bats, we sampled bat activities at 24 transect locations in burned and unburned forest stands in the central Appalachian Mountains of Shenandoah National Park (SNP), Virginia, USA. There was limited evidence of positive fire effects over time on hoary bats (Lasiurus cinereus Beauvois) and big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus Beauvois) occupancy. Overall, there were few or mostly equivocal relationships of bat occupancy relative to burn conditions or time since fire in SNP across species using a false-positive occupancy approach. Our results suggest that fire does not strongly affect bat site occupancy short- or long-term in the central Appalachians.

考虑到北美东部白鼻综合症可能会消灭数种曾经常见的蝙蝠物种的可能性，因此至关重要的是要了解森林管理活动的影响，例如规定的林火，以最大程度地减少对白蚁综合症的潜在负面影响。蝙蝠种群。历史性的野火可能提供合适的替代方法，以评估蝙蝠的长期烧伤影响，以计划，实施和评估烧伤计划。为了检查历史火对蝙蝠的影响，我们在美国弗吉尼亚州谢南多厄国家公园（SNP）的阿巴拉契亚山脉中部燃烧和未燃烧的林分中的24个样点位置采样了蝙蝠活动。有限的证据表明，随着时间的推移，对白蝙蝠（Lasiurus cinereus Beauvois）和大棕蝙蝠（Eptesicus fuscus Beauvois）的入住。总体而言，蝙蝠的占用率相对于烧伤条件或自从SNP着火以来物种间使用假阳性占用方法的时间之间的关系很少或几乎是模棱两可的关系。我们的结果表明，中部阿巴拉契亚山脉的大火不会短期或长期强烈影响蝙蝠的栖息地。