Staff Member
Mrs. Hila Taylor
Master's
Email: hilat4@vt.edu
Biography
I am currently working on my master's degree in wildlife conservation at Virginia Tech researching gray bats roosting preferences on bridges through acoustics and guano DNA barcoding.
| Research Publications | Publication Date |
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| True, M.C., K.M. Gorman, H. Taylor, R.J. Reynolds and W.M. Ford. 2023. Fall migration, oceanic movement, and site residency patterns of the eastern red bats (Lasiurus borealis) on the mid-Atlantic Coast. Movement Ecology 2023) 11:35https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-023-00398-x | June 2023 |
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Taylor, H., Powers, K., Reynolds, R., Hallerman, E. and Ford, W. (n.d.). Sources of Yearly Variation in Gray Bat Activity in the Clinch River Watershed, Virginia. Journal of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, [online] 10, pp.107–113. Available at: https://seafwa.org/sites/default/files/journal-articles/J10_14_Taylor%20et%20al%20107-113.pdf |
March 2023 |
| Jorge, M.H., W.M. Ford, S.E. Sweeten, S.R. Freeze, M.C. True, M. J. St. Germain, H.Taylor, K.M. Gorman1, M. J. Cherry, and E.P. Garrison. 2021. Winter Roost Selection of Lasiurine Tree Bats in a Pyric Landscape. PLoS ONE 16(2): e0245695. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245695 | February 2021 |
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Jorge, M.H., S.E. Sweeten, M.C. True, S.R. Freeze, M.J. Cherry, E.P. Garrison, H. Taylor, K.M. Gorman and W.M. Ford. 2021. Fire, land cover and temperature drivers of bat activity in the winter. International Journal of Fire Ecology. (2021) 17:19 /doi.org/10.1186/s42408-021-00105-4 |
June 2021 |
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De La Cruz, J.L., True, M.C., Taylor, H., Brown, D.C. and Ford, W.M. (2022). Unique Land Cover Classification to Assess Day-Roost Habitat Selection of Northern Long-Eared Bats on the Coastal Plain of North Carolina, USA. Forests, 13(5), p.792. doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/f13050792. |
May 2022 |
| Project | Completion Date |
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| Post WNS bat ecology in the eastern United States | December 2028 |
| Presentations | Presentation Date |
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| Taylor, H., K.E. Powers, W.D. Orndorff, R.J. Reynolds, and W.M. Ford. 2024. Tracking gray bat (Myotis grisescens) movement using Motus towers in southwest Virginia and northeast Tennessee. 34th Colloquium on Conservation of Mammals in the Southeast. Hilton Head, SC. Feb 16. | February 2024 |
| Litterer, A.S., H. Taylor, M.C. True, and W.M. Ford. 2022. With apologies to Marie Antoinette "let them eat cicadas" 2022 Northeast Bat Working Group, Manchester, NH. Jan. 12-14. | January 2022 |
| Isenhour, Z.W., K.M. Gorman, J.L. De La Cruz, M.L. Moran, H. Taylor and W.M. Ford. 2025. Activity trends of Northeastern bats, post-white-nose syndrome. 2025 Northeastern Bat Working Group, Harrisburg PA. Jan. 15-17. | January 2025 |
| Gorman, K.M., H. Taylor, C.A. Diggins, C.A. Kelly and W.M. Ford. 2024. Bat species on spruce-fir sky islands. 52nd North American Society for Bat Research, Guadalajara, Mexico. October 26. | October 2024 |
| <b>Taylor, H., W. Orndorff, R.J. Reynolds, M. Short, K.E. Powers and W.M. Ford. 2020. Gray bat (<i>Myotis Grisescens</i>) activity levels in southwest Virginia. 27th Annual Conference of the Wildlife Society. Sept 28-Oct 1. </b> | September 2020 |
| <b>Taylor, H., K.M. Gorman, M.C. True, K.E. Powers and W.M. Ford. 2020. Gray bat (Myotis grisescens) activity levels across southwest Virginia. Abstracts of the 30th Annual Colloquium on Conservation of Mammals in the Southeastern United States. Athens, GA. February 15</b> | February 2020 |
| <b>Gorman, K.G., H. Taylor, T.S. McCay, T.M. Carter and W.M. Ford. 2024. Seasonal changes in shrew morphology. 103rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists, Boulder, CO. July 7-11.</b> | July 2024 |
| <b>De La Cruz, J., M. True, H. Taylor, D. Brown, G. Jordan, C. Manley, and W.M. Ford. 2020. MULTI-SCALE HABITAT SELECTION BY NORTHERN LONG-EARED BATS ON THE COASTAL PLAIN OF NORTH CAROLINA. Abstracts of the 30th Annual Colloquium on Conservation of Mammals in the Southeastern United States. Athens, GA. February 15. </b> | February 2020 |