Sociality influences thermoregulation and roost switching in a forest bat using ephemeral roosts

• Published in: Ecology and Evolution
• Main Authors: Budinski, Ivana, Russo, Danilo, Cistrone, Luca, Console, Giulia, Della Corte, Martina, Milighetti, Claudia, Di Salvo, Ivy, Nardone, Valentina, Brigham, R. Mark, Ancillotto, Leonardo
• Format: Report
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Body temperature; Chiroptera; Snag; Torpor; Tree; Vespertilionids; Barbastella barbastellus
• Online Access: http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/ece3.3111; https://radar.ibiss.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/2780; https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3111; https://radar.ibiss.bg.ac.rs//bitstream/id/34/EcolEvol_2017.pdf

In summer, many temperate bat species use daytime torpor, but breeding females do so less to avoid interferences with reproduction. In forest-roosting bats, deep tree cavities buffer roost microclimate from abrupt temperature oscillations and facilitate thermoregulation. Forest bats also switch roos...