{"id":764590,"date":"2023-08-31T16:41:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T20:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=764590"},"modified":"2023-08-31T16:41:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T20:41:04","slug":"do-artificial-roosts-help-bats-experts-say-more-research-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=764590","title":{"rendered":"Do artificial roosts help bats? Experts say more research needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial roosts for bats come in many forms\u2014bat boxes, condos, bark mimics, clay roosts, and cinder block structures, to name a few\u2014but a new conservation practice and policy article from researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign suggests the structures haven&#8217;t been studied rigorously enough and may harm bats in some scenarios. The article, published in Conservation Biology, lays out potential dangers and encourages more research on the popular conservation practice.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-08-artificial-roosts-experts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Do artificial roosts help bats? Experts say more research needed<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial roosts for bats come in many forms\u2014bat boxes, condos, bark mimics, clay roosts, and cinder block structures, to name a few\u2014but a new conservation practice and policy article from&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-764590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=764590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=764590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=764590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=764590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}