Research Partnership Aims to Improve Bats' Odds of Survival (IMAGE)

USDA Forest Service - Northern Research Station

Research Partnership Aims to Improve Bats' Odds of Survival

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A multi-scale research partnership that is seeking to help bats gain resistance to White-nose Syndrome is exploring bats' migration routes and whether microbes on their skin might be helping them build resistance to the deadly disease.

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Brian Heeringa, USDA Forest Service

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