[HTML][HTML] Artificially raised roost temperatures lead to larger body sizes in wild bats

C Mundinger, JM Wolf, JF Gogarten, M Fierz… - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Climate warming has major consequences for animal populations, as ambient temperature
profoundly influences all organisms' physiology, behavior, or both. 1 Body size in many …

Weather as a proximate explanation for fission–fusion dynamics in female northern long-eared bats

KJ Patriquin, ML Leonard, HG Broders, WM Ford… - Animal Behaviour, 2016 - Elsevier
Fission–fusion dynamics appear common among temperate bats where females form roost
groups that change in size and composition, as females switch roosts almost daily. One …

Ground-based and LiDAR-derived measurements reveal scale-dependent selection of roost characteristics by the rare tree-dwelling bat Barbastella barbastellus

A Carr, MRK Zeale, A Weatherall… - Forest Ecology and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Bats use roosts for protection, sociality and reproduction. Lack of knowledge regarding the
specific roost preferences of tree-dwelling bats means that roosts are regularly removed …

Testing consistency of modelled predictions of the impact of climate change on bats

NE McGowan, N Roche, T Aughney, J Flanagan… - Climate Change …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Species Distribution Models (SDMs) are a cornerstone of climate change
conservation research but temporal extrapolations into future climate scenarios cannot be …

Summer day-roost selection by eastern red bats varies between areas with different land-use histories

MN Monarchino, ML Behan, JS Johnson - Plos one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The eastern red bat (Lasiurus borealis) is widely considered to be in decline, inspiring
interest in identifying important habitats for conservation in the eastern United States …

Fungal inoculations and mechanical wounding of trees have limited efficacy for snag creation two decades after treatment

JW Rivers - Forest Ecology and Management, 2024 - Elsevier
Standing dead trees (snags) support multiple functions within forest ecosystems by
providing vertical structure, contributing to nutrient flows and carbon cycling, and serving as …

Roosting ecology of the southernmost bats, Myotis chiloensis and Histiotus magellanicus, in southern Tierra del Fuego, Chile

G Ossa, TM Lilley, AG Waag, MB Meierhofer… - Austral …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
There are few studies of day‐roosting ecology of bats inhabiting the southernmost forests of
South America, where cool summer temperatures and land management practices pose …

Roosting ecology

A Rodríguez-Durán - Phyllostomid bats: A unique mammalian …, 2020 - degruyter.com
Few mammals are as alien to humans as bats; their main sensory inputs, ultrasound and
smell, differ substantially from those of our own visually oriented species. They navigate a …

[HTML][HTML] The management utility of large-scale environmental drivers of bat mortality at wind energy facilities: The effects of facility size, elevation and geographic …

KA MacGregor, J Lemaître - Global Ecology and Conservation, 2020 - Elsevier
Wind power development can cause direct mortality of both birds and bats through collisions
with turbines, but the estimates of mortality necessary to evaluate the impact of this mortality …

The Neighbourhood Bat Watch project reveals that rapid declines of bats after white-nose syndrome are exacerbated by a high rate of colony exclusion

A Fontaine, G Larocque, KH Elliott… - Canadian Journal of …, 2024 - cdnsciencepub.com
Long-term and large-scale monitoring of wildlife populations is fundamental to answer
questions relevant to conservation. Participatory (or “citizen”) science has become a popular …