Even
in Texas I can't tell you how many bats of what species we have in our
caves, because NO ONE IS DOING THAT RESEARCH. Even for the big,
popular
freetail caves that obviously contribute to our environmental well-
being
as well as our economic health, we only have a rough idea of numbers
and
no clue about whether those populations are stable, declining, or
(unlikely) increasing.
Given the relatively high number of cavers in Texas and the relatively
low numbers of publicly accessible caves, wouldn't it be possible to
put some of those cavers to use as volunteers for bat monitoring?
I'd love to do this kind of volunteer work, but I don't know who to
contact in the bat research field. Maybe someone at BCI would know?
Diana
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Diana R. Tomchick
Associate Professor
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Department of Biochemistry
5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
Rm. ND10.214B
Dallas, TX 75390-8816, U.S.A.
Email: [email protected]
214-645-6383 (phone)
214-645-6353 (fax)
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