image: Researcher conducting annual counts of hibernating bats. Biologists in New York first noticed a problem in 2007 when they discovered white fungus growing on hibernating bats and unusually high numbers of dead bats at hibernacula during routine monitoring efforts. This image relates to an article that appeared in the Aug. 6, 2010, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. Winifred Frick of Boston University in Boston, and colleagues is titled, "An Emerging Disease Causes Regional Population Collapse of a Common North American Bat Species." view more
Credit: [Photo credit: Alan C. Hicks]