Continued preference for suboptimal habitat reduces bat survival with white-nose syndrome
Nature Communications, 12(1), 166.
MeSH headings : Animal Diseases / microbiology; Animal Diseases / mortality; Animals; Ascomycota; Chiroptera / microbiology; Conservation of Natural Resources; Ecosystem; Fungi / pathogenicity; Michigan; Nose; Population Dynamics; Survival; Temperature; Wisconsin
TL;DR:
It is shown that bats have not altered their microclimate preferences due to temperature-mediated mortality from white-nose syndrome, finding instead a sustained preference for warmer sites with high mortality, demonstrating that host preferences for habitats with high disease-induced mortality can create ecological traps that threaten populations, even in the presence of accessible refugia.
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