Conspecific disturbance contributes to altered hibernation patterns in bats with white-nose syndrome

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 140, Issue , 2014, Pages 71-78

  Turner, James M ^a,c   Warnecke, Lisa ^a,c   Wilcox, Alana ^a   Baloun, Dylan ^a   Bollinger, Trent K ^b   Misra, Vikram ^b   Willis, Craig K R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Hibernation; Myotis lucifugus; Rewarming rate; Torpor; White nose syndrome

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL DISEASE; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ENERGY CONSERVATION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FUNGUS; HIBERNATION; MALE; MYOTIS LUCIFUGUS; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOGYMNOASCUS DESTRUCTANS; THERMOREGULATION; TORPOR; WARMING; WHITE NOSE SYNDROME; ANIMAL; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOSIS; NOSE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKIN; TIME; VETERINARY; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; AROUSAL; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHIROPTERA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; HIBERNATION; MYCOSES; NOSE; SKIN; TIME FACTORS; TORPOR; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84919399613     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2014.12.013     Document Type: Article

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