Coping with environmental change: the importance of adaptive thermoregulatory flexibility for Malagasy bats

Applicant Professorin Dr. Kathrin Dausmann

Subject Area Ecology and Biodiversity of Animals and Ecosystems, Organismic Interactions
Animal Physiology and Biochemistry

Term from 2018 to 2022

Project identifier Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 397982568

Final Report Year 2022

Final Report Abstract

No abstract available

2018. Short and hyperthermic torpor responses in the Malagasy bat Macronycteris commersoni reveal a broader hypometabolic scope in heterotherms. Journal of Comparative Physiology B 188: 1015-1027
Reher S, Ehlers J, Rabarison H & Dausmann KH
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00360-018-1171-4)
2019. Seasonal movements of insectivorous bat species in southwestern Madagascar. Malagasy Nature 13: 117-124
Reher S, Rabarison H, Schoroth M & Dausmann KH
2020. Variable climates lead to varying phenotypes: ‘weird’ mammalian torpor and lessons from lower latitudes. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8: 202000060
Nowack J, Levesque DL, Reher S & Dausmann KH
(See online at https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2020.00060)
2021. Tropical bats counter heat by combining torpor with adaptive hyperthermia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288: 20202059
Reher S & Dausmann KH
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.2059)
2022. Disparate roost sites drive intraspecific physiological variation in a Malagasy bat. Oecologia 198: 35-52
Reher S, Rabarison H, Montero BK, Turner JM & Dausmann KH
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-021-05088-2)
2022. Limited physiological compensation in response to an acute microclimate change in a Malagasy bat. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10: 779381
Reher S, Rabarison H, Nowack J & Dausmann KH
(See online at https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.779381)