What is winter? Modeling spatial variation in bat host traits and hibernation and their implications for overwintering energetics

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dc.citation.issue17
dc.citation.volume11
dc.contributor.authorHranac CR
dc.contributor.authorHaase CG
dc.contributor.authorFuller NW
dc.contributor.authorMcClure ML
dc.contributor.authorMarshall JC
dc.contributor.authorLausen CL
dc.contributor.authorMcGuire LP
dc.contributor.authorOlson SH
dc.contributor.authorHayman DTS
dc.coverage.spatialEngland
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-01T00:55:08Z
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-25T06:42:53Z
dc.date.available2021-08-18
dc.date.available2024-02-01T00:55:08Z
dc.date.available2024-07-25T06:42:53Z
dc.date.issued2021-09-09
dc.description.abstractWhite-nose syndrome (WNS) has decimated hibernating bat populations across eastern and central North America for over a decade. Disease severity is driven by the interaction between bat characteristics, the cold-loving fungal agent, and the hibernation environment. While we further improve hibernation energetics models, we have yet to examine how spatial heterogeneity in host traits is linked to survival in this disease system. Here, we develop predictive spatial models of body mass for the little brown myotis (Myotis lucifugus) and reassess previous definitions of the duration of hibernation of this species. Using data from published literature, public databases, local experts, and our own fieldwork, we fit a series of generalized linear models with hypothesized abiotic drivers to create distribution-wide predictions of prehibernation body fat and hibernation duration. Our results provide improved estimations of hibernation duration and identify a scaling relationship between body mass and body fat; this relationship allows for the first continuous estimates of prehibernation body mass and fat across the species' distribution. We used these results to inform a hibernation energetic model to create spatially varying fat use estimates for M. lucifugus. These results predict WNS mortality of M. lucifugus populations in western North America may be comparable to the substantial die-off observed in eastern and central populations.
dc.description.confidentialfalse
dc.edition.editionSeptember 2021
dc.format.pagination11604-11614
dc.identifier.author-urlhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34522327
dc.identifier.citationHranac CR, Haase CG, Fuller NW, McClure ML, Marshall JC, Lausen CL, McGuire LP, Olson SH, Hayman DTS. (2021). What is winter? Modeling spatial variation in bat host traits and hibernation and their implications for overwintering energetics.. Ecol Evol. 11. 17. (pp. 11604-11614).
dc.identifier.doi10.1002/ece3.7641
dc.identifier.eissn2045-7758
dc.identifier.elements-typejournal-article
dc.identifier.issn2045-7758
dc.identifier.piiECE37641
dc.identifier.urihttps://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/70733
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherJohn Wiley and Sons Ltd
dc.publisher.urihttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.7641
dc.relation.isPartOfEcol Evol
dc.rights(c) 2022 The Author/s
dc.rightsCC BY 4.0
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectMyotis lucifugus
dc.subjectPseudogymnoascus destructans
dc.subjecthibernation energetics
dc.subjectwhite‐nose syndrome
dc.subjectwinter duration
dc.titleWhat is winter? Modeling spatial variation in bat host traits and hibernation and their implications for overwintering energetics
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.elements-id448157
pubs.organisational-groupOther
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