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dc.contributor.authorStawski, Clareen
dc.contributor.authorGeiser, Fritzen
dc.date.accessioned2013-02-21T16:10:00Z-
dc.date.issued2012-
dc.identifier.citationPLoS One, 7(7), p. 1-6en
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/12103-
dc.description.abstractThe 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 21st 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.en
dc.languageenen
dc.publisherPublic Library of Scienceen
dc.relation.ispartofPLoS Oneen
dc.titleWill Temperature Effects or Phenotypic Plasticity Determine the Thermal Response of a Heterothermic Tropical Bat to Climate Change?en
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pone.0040278en
dcterms.accessRightsGolden
dc.subject.keywordsAnimal Physiological Ecologyen
dc.subject.keywordsTerrestrial Ecologyen
local.contributor.firstnameClareen
local.contributor.firstnameFritzen
local.subject.for2008060806 Animal Physiological Ecologyen
local.subject.for2008060208 Terrestrial Ecologyen
local.subject.seo2008970106 Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciencesen
local.profile.schoolSchool of Environmental and Rural Scienceen
local.profile.schoolSchool of Environmental and Rural Scienceen
local.profile.emailcstawsk2@une.edu.auen
local.profile.emailfgeiser@une.edu.auen
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local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
local.identifier.epublicationsrecordune-20130118-09044en
local.publisher.placeUnited States of Americaen
local.identifier.runningnumbere40278en
local.format.startpage1en
local.format.endpage6en
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local.peerreviewedYesen
local.identifier.volume7en
local.identifier.issue7en
local.access.fulltextYesen
local.contributor.lastnameStawskien
local.contributor.lastnameGeiseren
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local.title.maintitleWill Temperature Effects or Phenotypic Plasticity Determine the Thermal Response of a Heterothermic Tropical Bat to Climate Change?en
local.output.categorydescriptionC1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journalen
local.search.authorStawski, Clareen
local.search.authorGeiser, Fritzen
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local.identifier.wosid000306186900033en
local.year.published2012en
local.subject.for2020310907 Animal physiological ecologyen
local.subject.for2020310308 Terrestrial ecologyen
local.subject.seo2020280102 Expanding knowledge in the biological sciencesen
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