Density-dependent declines of Wisconsin bats from white-nose syndrome

White-nose syndrome is a fungal infection that affects hibernating bats in North America. The disease caused signficant declines in multiple species of bats, including the once common little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus). Though density dependence These data and analyses , , , # Density-dependent declines of Wisconsin bats from white-nose syndrome

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.zgmsbccp7](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.zgmsbccp7)

## Description of the data and file structure

This dataset is comprised of colony counts of little brown bat summer roosts and winter hibernation sites in Wisconsin during the invasion of the bat fungal disease white-nose syndrome (WNS). These are the data used in the manuscript entitled *Positive density-dependence promotes host persistence in the face of infectious disease*. Bat colony counts from summer (summerdeclines_dataall_Nov2021.csv) and winter (midwest_density_dependence_analysesNEW.csv) sites were used to analyze population growth rates (lambda) during white-nose syndrome invasion in Wisconsin. Data were collected over 11 years from 2011-2021. The summer and winter datasets contain year of survey, population size during year of survey, population growth rate, years since WNS arrival for each site, and landscape and site-...,