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

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Publications

• 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
  
• 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
  
• 2021. Tropical bats counter heat by combining torpor with adaptive hyperthermia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288: 20202059
  Reher S & Dausmann KH
  
• 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
  
• 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