Although animal personality research may have applied uses, this suggestion has yet to be
evaluated by assessing empirical studies examining animal personality and conservation …

Hibernation is a life history strategy for conservation of energy during adverse conditions,
primarily of temperature or resource availability. Whilst energy conservation is beneficial in …

"… a number of chapters provide excellent summaries of the modern methods available for
studying fungal ecology, along with those more traditional methods that are still extremely …

Tools for reducing wildlife disease impacts are needed to conserve biodiversity. White-nose
syndrome (WNS), caused by the fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans, has caused …

The management of infectious diseases is an important conservation concern for a growing
number of wildlife species. However, effective disease control in wildlife is challenging …

Mammalian hibernation consists of energy-saving torpor bouts (periods of controlled
reduction in body temperature [T b]) interspersed with brief arousals to normothermic T b …

Fungal diseases of wildlife typically manifest as superficial skin infections but can have
devastating consequences for host physiology and survival. White-nose syndrome (WNS) is …

Phenology refers to the timing of events in the annual cycle of organisms. For temperate-
zone mammals, hibernation is one such event, but little is known about its phenology …

Previous acoustic surveys, netting, and count data have shown that overall bat activity
patterns have shifted among most species between pre-and post-white-nose syndrome …

Bat flies are obligate ectoparasitic dipterans that are highly specialised to bats and have
apomorphic characteristics, such as absent or reduced wings, and specialised legs and …