Northern Long-Eared Bat (Myotis septentrionalis) Day-Roost Loss in the Central Appalachian Mountains following Prescribed Burning

Table 2

Parameter estimates of the best approximating model for predicting availability of northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis) day-roosts discovered in 2007–2009 and reexamined in 2016 on the Fernow Experimental Forest, West Virginia.

Variable^a	d.f.	Parameter estimate	Standard error	Wald 95% confidence limits		Wald χ^2	value
Intercept	1	1765.80	959.22	−114.24	3645.84	3.39	0.07
Fire	1	0.48	0.54	−0.58	1.54	0.79	0.37
Stage	1	−0.32	0.18	−0.67	0.02	3.33	0.07
Year	1	−0.88	0.80	−1.81	0.06	3.38	0.07

^aFIRE, prescribed fire vs. unburned; STAGE, initial day-roost decay class condition; YEAR, year of day-roost discovery; RANK, surrogate decay resistance rank from tree species specific gravity values collected at the FEF; DBH, diameter at breast height of day-roost at initial discovery.