Global S&T Development Trend Analysis Platform of Resources and Environment
DOI | 10.3354/cr01496 |
Using thermoregulatory profiles to assess climate change vulnerability in an arboreal tropical bat: heterothermy may be a pre-adaptive advantage | |
Welman, Shaun1; Tuen, Andrew A.2; Lovegrove, Barry G.1 | |
2018 | |
发表期刊 | CLIMATE RESEARCH
![]() |
ISSN | 0936-577X |
EISSN | 1616-1572 |
出版年 | 2018 |
卷号 | 74期号:2页码:161-170 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | South Africa; Malaysia |
英文摘要 | Many tropical endotherms are already confronted by ambient temperatures (T-a) close to their body temperature (T-b) and risk severe hyperthermia due to global warming. Tropical fruit bats play a vital role in the ecosystem and their absence could have dire consequences for ecosystem health. Many fruit bats have exposed roosting habits that increase their vulnerability to heat stress. We investigated the thermoregulatory capacity of wild caught lesser dog-faced fruit bats Cynopterus brachyotis from the Island of Borneo; a heterothermic 32 g foliage-roosting generalist bat. We determined the effect of T-a (21-36 degrees C) on metabolism, T-b and evaporative cooling. We also measured the T-a and relative humidity (RH) at capture sites. The bats displayed a seemingly narrow thermoneutral zone of 30 +/- 1 degrees C, a basal metabolic rate of 5.60 +/- 0.26 W kg(-1) (1.01 +/- 0.05 ml O-2 g(-1) h(-1)) and a normothermic T-b of 32.5 +/- 0.3 degrees C; all much lower than expected. Evaporative cooling was only effective at T-a <= 31 degrees C, above which heat storage became apparent. Bats typically entered torpor at T-a < 25 degrees C and thermoconformed (i.e. allowed their T-b to fluctuate with T-a) at T-a > 32 degrees C. The microclimate at capture sites remained cool (T-a = 24-25 degrees C) and humid (RH > 90%). Our study supports the argument that tropical endotherms are susceptible to hyperthermia due to their low T-b. Further, we discuss the potential advantage of heterothermy in coping with short-term heatwaves. However, the future of these bats, and likely other low T-b species, depends primarily on their thermally buffered habitats, and decisive conservation action is required to protect thermal refugia. |
英文关键词 | Hyperthermia Body temperature Torpor Global warming Tropics Fruit bats |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000418809900006 |
WOS关键词 | BASAL METABOLIC-RATE ; LATITUDINAL DIVERSITY GRADIENT ; HIGH AMBIENT-TEMPERATURES ; EVAPORATIVE WATER-LOSS ; LAND-USE CHANGE ; PENINSULAR MALAYSIA ; SMALL MAMMALS ; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION ; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES ; SEED DISPERSAL |
WOS类目 | Environmental Sciences ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/38536 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | 1.Univ KwaZulu Natal, Sch Life Sci, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa; 2.Univ Malaysia, Inst Biodivers & Environm Conservat, Sarawak, Malaysia |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Welman, Shaun,Tuen, Andrew A.,Lovegrove, Barry G.. Using thermoregulatory profiles to assess climate change vulnerability in an arboreal tropical bat: heterothermy may be a pre-adaptive advantage[J]. CLIMATE RESEARCH,2018,74(2):161-170. |
APA | Welman, Shaun,Tuen, Andrew A.,&Lovegrove, Barry G..(2018).Using thermoregulatory profiles to assess climate change vulnerability in an arboreal tropical bat: heterothermy may be a pre-adaptive advantage.CLIMATE RESEARCH,74(2),161-170. |
MLA | Welman, Shaun,et al."Using thermoregulatory profiles to assess climate change vulnerability in an arboreal tropical bat: heterothermy may be a pre-adaptive advantage".CLIMATE RESEARCH 74.2(2018):161-170. |
条目包含的文件 | 条目无相关文件。 |
除非特别说明,本系统中所有内容都受版权保护,并保留所有权利。
修改评论