Stable hydrogen isotopes record the summering grounds of eastern red bats (Lasiurus borealis).

ABSTRACT: Bats face numerous threats associated with global environmental change, including the rapid expansion of wind-energy facilities, emerging infectious disease, and habitat loss. An understanding of the movement and migration patterns of these highly dispersive animals would help reveal how spatially localized the impacts from these threats are likely to be on bat populations, thus aiding in their conservation. Stable hydrogen isotope ratios (δ (2)H) can be used to infer regions where bats have foraged during the summer molt season, thus allowing an assessment of summering location and distance of movement of bats sampled during other times of year. However, a major impediment to the application of δ (2)H for inference of bat movements is that the relationship between δ (2)H of bat hair and p

SUBMITTER: Pylant CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4203026 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature