{"id":3189,"date":"2025-12-09T20:15:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T01:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steam\/?p=3189"},"modified":"2025-12-09T20:15:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T01:15:29","slug":"relation-between-noise-pollution-and-bat-activity-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steam\/2025\/12\/09\/relation-between-noise-pollution-and-bat-activity-in-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Relation Between Noise Pollution And Bat Activity in NYC\u200b"},"content":{"rendered":"
Group Members:<\/strong> Makula Dukuly, Junie Bae, Tasnin Sultana, Andrew Kokolakis, and Eitan Rochwarger\u200b<\/div>\n
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This study that bats are <\/span><\/span><\/span>attracted to bright, noisy areas in New York City. Unfortunately, <\/span><\/span><\/span>these places may act as ecological traps that do not <\/span><\/span><\/span>support long-term survival or population growth. <\/span><\/span><\/span>Bats may be drawn to artificial light because it <\/span><\/span><\/span>provides short-term feeding opportunities, but the <\/span><\/span><\/span>added noise and disturbance can seriously harm <\/span><\/span><\/span>their health and behavior. Recognizing light and <\/span><\/span><\/span>noise pollution as possible ecological traps is <\/span><\/span><\/span>important for improving wildlife conservation in<\/span><\/span><\/span>growing cities. With the right changes, urban areas <\/span><\/span><\/span>can support the presence of bats and their long-<\/span><\/span><\/span>term success as well. Future research should look <\/span><\/span><\/span>at how well bats survive over time, how often they <\/span><\/span><\/span>reproduce, and their stress levels in areas with high<\/span><\/span><\/span>light and noise to better understand whether these <\/span><\/span><\/span>environments truly harm their overall health. <\/span><\/span><\/span>Luckily for the bat population, the Gotham Bat <\/span><\/span><\/span>Conservancy, with whom we entered personal <\/span><\/span><\/span>contact with over the course of the experiment, is <\/span><\/span><\/span>currently\u00a0<\/span><\/span>in the midst of<\/span><\/span> its Gotham City Project\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>that seeks to gain a full grasp of this knowledge. <\/span><\/span><\/span>Reducing noise in important bat habitats could also <\/span><\/span><\/span>help support healthier bat populations.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The most import\u200bant takeaway is to take interest in nature as its relations and intricacies may surprise you.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Group Members: Makula Dukuly, Junie Bae, Tasnin Sultana, Andrew Kokolakis, and Eitan Rochwarger\u200b This study that bats are attracted to bright, noisy areas in New York City. Unfortunately,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":3190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1029,1058,62,68],"tags":[201,357,1214,822],"class_list":["post-3189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1029","category-chatterjee-subhasish","category-queens","category-seminar-3-science-forward","tag-bats","tag-ecology","tag-noise-pollution","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3192,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189\/revisions\/3192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}