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Will temperature effects or phenotypic plasticity determine the thermal response of a heterothermic tropical bat to climate change?

PloS one - 1 Jan 2012

Stawski Clare, Geiser Fritz

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The 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...

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PMID: 22802959
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040278
PMCID: PMC3389006

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