Modelling the potential efficacy of treatments for white‐nose syndrome in bats

The fungal disease white‐nose syndrome (WNS) has caused mass mortality in some species of North American bats during hibernation. We use population viability models to test if a hypothetical WNS treatment or management action could facilitate the recovery of WNS‐affected little brown myotis Myotis lucifugus populations. We modelled scenarios altering three parameters: (a) WNS severity (population growth rate of WNS‐affected populations; λ WNS );...