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Supersize me: hypotheses on torpor-assisted prehibernation fattening in a boreal bat.
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- Environmental drivers of bat activity at high latitudes.BMC ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Daily torpor in summer- and winter-acclimated hamsters: are thermal biology and balancing energy budgets under a different seasonal physiological control?Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology · 2026Article
- Behavioural Changes Across Gestation and Lactation in a Colony of Female Northern Bats (Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Winter torpor and body mass patterns of a cave-roosting bat in cool and warm climates.Oecologia · 2025Article
- Contrasting Seasonal Distribution Patterns of Two Boreal Aerial Hawking Bat Species in Finland.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Supersize me: hypotheses on torpor-assisted prehibernation fattening in a boreal bat.Biology letters · 2024Article
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Hibernators face an energetic dilemma in the autumn at northern latitudes; while temperatures and food availability decrease, hibernating species need to build fat deposits to survive the winter. During this critical fattening phase, insectivorous boreal bats use torpor to build and conserve their reserves. However, we still know little about temporal variability in torpor use employed by bats during the prehibernation fattening period and how decreasing temperatures and food availability in combination with increasing individual body mass impact this. Here, we present two general hypotheses for explaining temporal torpor patterns observed in a boreal bat (
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