Temperature and White-Nose Syndrome in Bats
By The Editors
December 12, 2023
Biology Environment Animal Behavior Climatology Ecology Nature Conservation
The location inside of caves where bats hibernate—either farther inside where it is warmer, or closer to the entrance where it is cooler—can have a direct effect on whether those bats survive an infection of the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome, finds ecologist Skylar Hopkins of North Carolina State University. With climate change, caves are getting warmer, which likely will accelerate how this disease proliferates in already affected colonies of hibernating bats in the future.
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