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ArticleEcology and evolution2022

Active season body mass patterns of little brown and northern myotis bats.

Evan W Balzer, Adam D Grottoli, Lynne E Burns, Hugh G Broders

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Article in Ecology and evolution, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Evan W BalzerDepartment of Biology University of Waterloo Waterloo Ontario Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6271-4960
Adam D GrottoliDepartment of Biology University of Waterloo Waterloo Ontario Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2069-9691
Lynne E BurnsEnvironment and Climate Change Canada Edmonton Alberta Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7286-6431
Hugh G BrodersDepartment of Biology University of Waterloo Waterloo Ontario Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6151-8079

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Animals are expected to adjust their behavioral patterns to improve fitness outcomes, such as fecundity or offspring survival. For long-lived hibernators, decisions made in each annual cycle may reflect considerations not just for concurrent survival and reproduction but also the pressure to maximize overwinter survival and future reproductive success. We examined how these elements manifest themselves in the body mass variation patterns of North American northern latitude temperate bats, whose size and roosting habits present considerable monitoring challenges. We characterized and compared the summer and fall mass variation patterns of little brown myotis (

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batsforaginghibernationlittle brown myotismassnorthern myotis

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PMID39411583
PMCPMC11476244

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