Supplementary material from "Precipitation during two weeks in spring influences reproductive success of first-year females in the long-lived Natterer's bat"
Bats are characterized by low reproductive rates in contrast with most of other small mammals. This makes their populations vulnerable when inclement environmental conditions such as cold and rainy weather impair the reproductive success of females. The fine-scale effect of weather on bats, however,...
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ftdatacite:10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5834279.v1 2023-05-15T17:13:46+02:00 Supplementary material from "Precipitation during two weeks in spring influences reproductive success of first-year females in the long-lived Natterer's bat" Stapelfeldt, Bianca Scheuerlein, Alexander Tress, Christoph Koch, Ralf Tress, Johannes Kerth, Gerald 2022 https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5834279.v1 https://rs.figshare.com/collections/Supplementary_material_from_Precipitation_during_two_weeks_in_spring_influences_reproductive_success_of_first-year_females_in_the_long-lived_Natterer_s_bat_/5834279/1 unknown The Royal Society https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.211881 https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5834279 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 CC-BY Ecology FOS Biological sciences article Collection 2022 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5834279.v1 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.211881 https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5834279 2022-03-10T11:26:19Z Bats are characterized by low reproductive rates in contrast with most of other small mammals. This makes their populations vulnerable when inclement environmental conditions such as cold and rainy weather impair the reproductive success of females. The fine-scale effect of weather on bats, however, remains largely unknown. Using a sliding window analysis approach on an 18-year individualized dataset on six Natterer's bat ( Myotis nattereri ) colonies, we investigated the effect of fine-scale weather conditions on age-specific reproductive success. We found that increased precipitation during a short time window in spring strongly reduced the probability of successful reproduction of first-year (FY) females. Our data suggest that this time window is concomitant with implantation or early pregnancy, before substantial investment into embryo development. In addition, larger FY had higher reproductive success, suggesting that reproduction may be condition dependent in young females. Reproductive success of older females was not affected by either weather or individual parameters. Our results show that changes in precipitation pattern may compromise the reproductive success of FY females. Further studies are needed to better understand the impact of weather conditions on reproductive success in long-lived bats under climate change scenarios. Article in Journal/Newspaper Myotis nattereri Natterer's bat DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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Bats are characterized by low reproductive rates in contrast with most of other small mammals. This makes their populations vulnerable when inclement environmental conditions such as cold and rainy weather impair the reproductive success of females. The fine-scale effect of weather on bats, however, remains largely unknown. Using a sliding window analysis approach on an 18-year individualized dataset on six Natterer's bat ( Myotis nattereri ) colonies, we investigated the effect of fine-scale weather conditions on age-specific reproductive success. We found that increased precipitation during a short time window in spring strongly reduced the probability of successful reproduction of first-year (FY) females. Our data suggest that this time window is concomitant with implantation or early pregnancy, before substantial investment into embryo development. In addition, larger FY had higher reproductive success, suggesting that reproduction may be condition dependent in young females. Reproductive success of older females was not affected by either weather or individual parameters. Our results show that changes in precipitation pattern may compromise the reproductive success of FY females. Further studies are needed to better understand the impact of weather conditions on reproductive success in long-lived bats under climate change scenarios. |
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Stapelfeldt, Bianca Scheuerlein, Alexander Tress, Christoph Koch, Ralf Tress, Johannes Kerth, Gerald |
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Stapelfeldt, Bianca Scheuerlein, Alexander Tress, Christoph Koch, Ralf Tress, Johannes Kerth, Gerald |
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Stapelfeldt, Bianca |
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Supplementary material from "Precipitation during two weeks in spring influences reproductive success of first-year females in the long-lived Natterer's bat" |
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Supplementary material from "Precipitation during two weeks in spring influences reproductive success of first-year females in the long-lived Natterer's bat" |
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Supplementary material from "Precipitation during two weeks in spring influences reproductive success of first-year females in the long-lived Natterer's bat" |
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Supplementary material from "Precipitation during two weeks in spring influences reproductive success of first-year females in the long-lived Natterer's bat" |
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Supplementary material from "Precipitation during two weeks in spring influences reproductive success of first-year females in the long-lived Natterer's bat" |
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supplementary material from "precipitation during two weeks in spring influences reproductive success of first-year females in the long-lived natterer's bat" |
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https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5834279.v1 https://rs.figshare.com/collections/Supplementary_material_from_Precipitation_during_two_weeks_in_spring_influences_reproductive_success_of_first-year_females_in_the_long-lived_Natterer_s_bat_/5834279/1 |
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