Big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus) capture records before and after white-nose syndrome

We collated 30 years of big brown bat capture records collected between 1990 to 2020. We collected data from wildlife agencies and researchers in the eastern US. We kept capture records that fell within the months of March through October, representing spring through fall months when bats are surveyed outside of hibernacula. We then paired this data with spatiotemporal spread of the fungal pathogen Pseudogymnoascus destructans (causal agent of white-nose syndrome that kills North American temperate bats), of which, big brown bats are susceptible to infection. The completed dataset represents 30,497 individual big brown bat captures across 3,797 unique sites.

本研究整理了1990年至2020年间共计30年的大棕蝠（big brown bat）捕获记录。我们从美国东部的野生动物管理机构与科研人员处收集相关数据，并筛选出3月至10月的捕获记录——该时段对应春季至秋季，此时蝙蝠会离开冬眠洞穴外出并接受野外调查。随后我们将该数据集与真菌病原菌破坏性假裸囊菌（Pseudogymnoascus destructans，引发导致北美温带蝙蝠死亡的白鼻综合征（white-nose syndrome）的病原菌）的时空扩散数据进行匹配，大棕蝠属于该病原菌的易感宿主。最终完成的数据集共计包含30497条大棕蝠个体捕获记录，覆盖3797个独特采样位点。