Long-term individualized monitoring of sympatric bat species reveals distinct species- and demographic differences in hibernation phenology
BACKGROUND: Hibernation allows species to conserve energy and thereby bridge unfavorable environmental conditions. At the same time, hibernation imposes substantial ecological and physiological costs. Understanding how hibernation timing differs within and between species can provide insights into t...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:8796590 2023-05-15T17:13:47+02:00 Long-term individualized monitoring of sympatric bat species reveals distinct species- and demographic differences in hibernation phenology Meier, Frauke Grosche, Leo Reusch, Christine Runkel, Volker van Schaik, Jaap Kerth, Gerald 2022-01-28 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8796590/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35090401 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-022-01962-6 en eng BioMed Central http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8796590/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35090401 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-022-01962-6 © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. CC0 PDM CC-BY BMC Ecol Evol Research Text 2022 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-022-01962-6 2022-02-06T01:57:10Z BACKGROUND: Hibernation allows species to conserve energy and thereby bridge unfavorable environmental conditions. At the same time, hibernation imposes substantial ecological and physiological costs. Understanding how hibernation timing differs within and between species can provide insights into the underlying drivers of this trade-off. However, this requires individualized long-term data that are often unavailable. Here, we used automatic monitoring techniques and a reproducible analysis pipeline to assess the individualized hibernation phenology of two sympatric bat species. Our study is based on data of more than 1100 RFID-tagged Daubenton’s bats (Myotis daubentonii) and Natterer’s bats (Myotis nattereri) collected over seven years at a hibernaculum in Germany. We used linear mixed models to analyze species-, sex- and age-specific differences in entrance, emergence and duration of the longest continuous period spent in the hibernaculum. RESULTS: Overall, Daubenton’s bats entered the hibernaculum earlier and emerged later than Natterer’s bats, resulting in a nearly twice as long hibernation duration. In both species, adult females entered earlier and emerged from hibernation later than adult males. Hibernation duration was shorter for juveniles than adults with the exception of adult male Natterer’s bats whose hibernation duration was shortest of all classes. Finally, hibernation timing differed among years, but yearly variations in entrance and emergence timing were not equally shifted in both species. CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggest that even in sympatric species, and across sex and age classes, hibernation timing may be differentially affected by environmental conditions. This highlights the necessity of using individualized information when studying the impact of changing environments on hibernation phenology. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12862-022-01962-6. Text Myotis nattereri PubMed Central (PMC) BMC Ecology and Evolution 22 1 |
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BACKGROUND: Hibernation allows species to conserve energy and thereby bridge unfavorable environmental conditions. At the same time, hibernation imposes substantial ecological and physiological costs. Understanding how hibernation timing differs within and between species can provide insights into the underlying drivers of this trade-off. However, this requires individualized long-term data that are often unavailable. Here, we used automatic monitoring techniques and a reproducible analysis pipeline to assess the individualized hibernation phenology of two sympatric bat species. Our study is based on data of more than 1100 RFID-tagged Daubenton’s bats (Myotis daubentonii) and Natterer’s bats (Myotis nattereri) collected over seven years at a hibernaculum in Germany. We used linear mixed models to analyze species-, sex- and age-specific differences in entrance, emergence and duration of the longest continuous period spent in the hibernaculum. RESULTS: Overall, Daubenton’s bats entered the hibernaculum earlier and emerged later than Natterer’s bats, resulting in a nearly twice as long hibernation duration. In both species, adult females entered earlier and emerged from hibernation later than adult males. Hibernation duration was shorter for juveniles than adults with the exception of adult male Natterer’s bats whose hibernation duration was shortest of all classes. Finally, hibernation timing differed among years, but yearly variations in entrance and emergence timing were not equally shifted in both species. CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggest that even in sympatric species, and across sex and age classes, hibernation timing may be differentially affected by environmental conditions. This highlights the necessity of using individualized information when studying the impact of changing environments on hibernation phenology. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12862-022-01962-6. |
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Long-term individualized monitoring of sympatric bat species reveals distinct species- and demographic differences in hibernation phenology |
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Long-term individualized monitoring of sympatric bat species reveals distinct species- and demographic differences in hibernation phenology |
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Long-term individualized monitoring of sympatric bat species reveals distinct species- and demographic differences in hibernation phenology |
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Long-term individualized monitoring of sympatric bat species reveals distinct species- and demographic differences in hibernation phenology |
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long-term individualized monitoring of sympatric bat species reveals distinct species- and demographic differences in hibernation phenology |
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