Long-term spring through fall capture data of in the eastern USA before and after white-nose syndrome.

Emerging infectious diseases threaten wildlife populations. Without well monitored wildlife systems, it is challenging to determine accurate population and ecosystem losses following disease emergence. North American temperate bats present a unique opportunity for studying the broad impacts of wildlife disease emergence, as their federal monitoring programs were prioritized in the USA throughout the 20 century and they are currently threatened by the invasive fungal pathogen, (), which causes white-nose syndrome.