ArticlePloS one2012
Will temperature effects or phenotypic plasticity determine the thermal response of a heterothermic tropical bat to climate change?
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- Arboreal Mammals Are at Risk Under Climate Change: Insights From a Global Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Global change biology · 2026Pooled it
- Bat responses to climate change: a systematic review.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2023Pooled it
- Body Size Decline in an Endangered Bat Is Associated With Climate Change at a Continental Scale but Varies by Phenophase and Region.Global change biology · 2026Article
- Thinner bats to face hibernation as response to climate warming.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Thermally unstable roosts influence winter torpor patterns in a threatened bat species.Conservation physiology · 2024Article
- Daily torpor reduces the energetic consequences of microhabitat selection for a widespread bat.Ecology · 2022Article
- Late lactation in small mammals is a critically sensitive window of vulnerability to elevated ambient temperature.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Hibernation in bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) did not evolve through positive selection of leptin.Ecology and evolution · 2018Article
- Sociality influences thermoregulation and roost switching in a forest bat using ephemeral roosts.Ecology and evolution · 2017Article
- A functional nexus between photoperiod acclimation, torpor expression and somatic fatty acid composition in a heterothermic mammal.PloS one · 2013Article
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Abstract
The proportion of organisms exposed to warm conditions is predicted to increase during global warming. To better understand how bats might respond to climate change, we aimed to obtain the first data on how use of torpor, a crucial survival strategy of small bats, is affected by temperature in the tropics. Over two mild winters, tropical free-ranging bats (Nyctophilus bifax, 10 g, n = 13) used torpor on 95% of study days and were torpid for 33.5±18.8% of 113 days measured. Torpor duration was temperature-dependent and an increase in ambient temperature by the predicted 2°C for the 21(st) century would decrease the time in torpor to 21.8%. However, comparisons among Nyctophilus populations show that regional phenotypic plasticity attenuates temperature effects on torpor patterns. Our data suggest that heterothermy is important for energy budgeting of bats even under warm conditions and that flexible torpor use will enhance bats' chance of survival during climate change.
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