Title
Environmental correlates and energetics of winter flight by bats in Southern Alberta, Canada
Author(s)
Klüg-Baerwald, Brandon Jeremiah ;Gower, Louis E. ;Lausen, Cori ;Brigham, R.M.
Published
2016
Publisher
Canadian Journal of Zoology
Abstract
using species-specific parameters. We estimated that winter flight uses considerable fat stores and that flight thermogenesis could mitigate energetic costs by 20% or more. We also show that temperature-dependent interspecific differences in winter activity likely stem from differences between species in heat loss and potential for activity-thermoregulatory heat substitution.
Keywords
bats;big brown bat;echolocation;Eptesicus fuscus;energetics;flight;Myotis;winter activity
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