Bat responses to climate change: a systematic review

F Festa, L Ancillotto, L Santini, M Pacifici… - Biological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding how species respond to climate change is key to informing vulnerability
assessments and designing effective conservation strategies, yet research efforts on wildlife …

Hygric niches for tropical endotherms

WA Boyle, EH Shogren, JD Brawn - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2020 - cell.com
Biotic selective pressures dominate explanations for the evolutionary ecology of tropical
endotherms. Yet, abiotic factors, principally precipitation regimes, shape biogeographical …

[图书][B] Bats of Britain and Europe

C Dietz, A Kiefer - 2016 - books.google.com
The definitive guide to the bats of Britain and Europe. This concise and definitive guide
presents all 45 bat species that regularly occur in Europe (of which 17 are known to breed in …

Resilient responses by bats to a severe wildfire: conservation implications

L Ancillotto, L Bosso, P Conti, D Russo - Animal Conservation, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Wildfires shape ecosystems globally, yet little is known on their effects on wildlife distribution
and spatial behaviour. We used bats as models to test the effects of fire on ecosystems …

Higher and bigger: How riparian bats react to climate change

D Russo, G Jones, M Polizzi, V Meola… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
The altitudinal distribution of animals and changes in their body size are effective indicators
of climate change. Bats are sensitive to climate change due to their dependence on …

Wildfires, heatwaves and human disturbance threaten insular endemic bats

L Ancillotto, G Fichera, E Pidinchedda, M Veith… - Biodiversity and …, 2021 - Springer
Islands host high numbers of endemic species, and the latter are especially exposed to
human-driven habitat alteration because their population size is constrained by the limited …

Spring weather conditions influence breeding phenology and reproductive success in sympatric bat populations

DM Linton, DW Macdonald - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Climate is known to influence breeding phenology and reproductive success in temperate‐
zone bats, but long‐term population level studies and interspecific comparisons are rare …

Long-term study shows that increasing body size in response to warmer summers is associated with a higher mortality risk in a long-lived bat species

C Mundinger, A Scheuerlein… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Change in body size is one of the universal responses to global warming, with most species
becoming smaller. While small size in most species corresponds to low individual fitness …

Global warming alters sound transmission: differential impact on the prey detection ability of echolocating bats

J Luo, K Koselj, S Zsebők… - Journal of the …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Climate change impacts the biogeography and phenology of plants and animals, yet the
underlying mechanisms are little known. Here, we present a functional link between rising …

Long-term field study reveals that warmer summers lead to larger and longer-lived females only in northern populations of Natterer's bats

B Stapelfeldt, C Tress, R Koch, J Tress, G Kerth… - Oecologia, 2023 - Springer
Animals often respond to climate change with changes in morphology, eg, shrinking body
size with increasing temperatures, as expected by Bergmann's rule. Because small body …