Bats are hosts to a range of zoonotic and potentially zoonotic pathogens. Human activities
that increase exposure to bats will likely increase the opportunity for infections to spill over in …

Bats are important ecosystems service providers, make a significant contribution to
biodiversity and can be important pests and disease vectors. In spite of this, information on …

The fungal pathogen Geomyces destructans, which causes white-nose syndrome in bats,
thrives in the cold and moist conditions found in caves where bats hibernate. To aid …

Altitudinal migrations are common in all major vertebrate and some invertebrate lineages.
Such migrations have important implications for the basic and applied ecology of animals …

Insectivorous bats have often been touted as biological control for mosquito populations.
However, mosquitoes generally represent only a small proportion of bat diet. Given the small …

ABSTRACT A large number of analyses have examined how basal metabolic rate (BMR) is
affected by body mass in mammals. By contrast, the critical ambient temperatures that define …

Temperature seasonality has been proposed to be an important determinant of bat
community structure in Atlantic Forest of South America and elsewhere. I characterized …

The increase in species diversity from the Poles to the Equator is a major biogeographic
pattern, but the mechanisms underlying it remain obscure. Our aim is to contribute to their …

The gastrointestinal tract of animals is adapted to their primary source of food to optimize
resource use and energy intake. Temperate bat species mainly feed on arthropods. These …

We used long‐term datasets to analyse (1) the patterns of covariation between basic climatic
variables (temperature and rainfall) and the timing of reproduction and reproductive …