bats: Percent Body Fat of Little Brown Bats from Aeolus Cave

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Percent Body Fat of Little Brown Bats from Aeolus Cave

Description

This dataset contains information on the percent body fat of little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus) sampled in Aeolus Cave, East Dorset, Vermont, located in the northeastern United States.

Usage

data(bats)

Format

A data frame with 159 rows and 4 variables:

sex

sex of the sampled bat, with F for female and M for male.

percentfat

percent body fat.

year

year the bat was sampled.

days

hibernation time, defined as the number of days since the fall equinox.

Details

This subset of data was collected by Cheng et al. (2019) specifically from Aeolus Cave, one of five regions studied in the United States. The dataset provides insight into the fat stores of bats, which is crucial for understanding their persistence in the face of white-nose syndrome.

Source

https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.sh487nh

References

Cheng TL, Gerson A, Moore MS, et al. (2019). Higher fat stores contribute to persistence of little brown bat populations with white-nose syndrome. Journal of Animal Ecology. 88, 591–600

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