Communications Biology (Jul 2022)

Global warming leads to larger bats with a faster life history pace in the long-lived Bechstein’s bat (Myotis bechsteinii)

  • Carolin Mundinger,
  • Toni Fleischer,
  • Alexander Scheuerlein,
  • Gerald Kerth

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03611-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Warming summers across a 25-year study are linked to larger body sizes in female bats, leading to a switch from a slow-reproducing, long-lived species to a faster pace of life.