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Combinations of reproductive, individual, and weather effects best explain torpor patterns among female little brown bats (
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- Combinations of reproductive, individual, and weather effects best explain torpor patterns among female little brown bats (Ecology and evolution · 2019Article
- Thermal physiology and activity in relation to reproductive status and sex in a free-ranging semelparous marsupial.Conservation physiology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Heterothermic mammals can use torpor, a state of metabolic suppression, to conserve energy during times of limited food and poor environmental conditions. Females may use torpor throughout gestation and lactation; however, there are associated physiological and ecological costs with potential fitness consequences. Previous studies have controlled for, but not quantified the impact of interindividual variation on torpor patterns and understanding this may provide insight on why certain thermoregulatory responses are employed. The objective of this study was to identify and quantitatively characterize the intrinsic variables and weather conditions that best explain variation in torpor patterns among individual female little brown bats, OPEN RESEARCH BADGES: This article has earned an Open Data Badge for making publicly available the digitally-shareable data necessary to reproduce the reported results. The data is available at https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.c04tj85.
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