Does sociality increase survivorship in bats
Bats are highly gregarious mammals, and many species within the taxa exhibit social behaviour. Several hypotheses on the costs and benefits of sociality amongst bats have been investigated, including social thermoregulation, predator avoidance, and pathogen transfer. From other taxa, we know that...
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| author | Neo, Wivian Hui Yuan |
| author2 | Lee Ser Huay Janice Teresa |
| author_facet | Lee Ser Huay Janice Teresa Neo, Wivian Hui Yuan |
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| description | Bats are highly gregarious mammals, and many species within the taxa exhibit social
behaviour. Several hypotheses on the costs and benefits of sociality amongst bats have been
investigated, including social thermoregulation, predator avoidance, and pathogen transfer.
From other taxa, we know that the probability of survival may vary with an individual’s
gregariousness. Thus, we examined if individual sociality explains the individual’s probability
of annual survival in female little brown myotis (Myotis lucifugus). By implanting bats with
passive integrated transponders and monitoring several roost boxes with readers, we monitored
co-roosting frequency among little brown myotis in a maternity group. We employed social
network analysis to quantify sociality with the network metrics strength and betweenness
centrality. We found that adult female bats with a higher strength and thus more associates had
a lower probability of survival to the next year. However, we found no significant change in
the probability of survival based on their betweenness centrality, or how influential the
individuals were in linking different subgroups together. There was no evidence that sociality
amongst juveniles had a significant effect on the probability of survival. This suggests that
there might be other drivers of sociality, such as roost limitation or fitness benefit of maternal
sociality on juvenile survivorship. With white-nose syndrome drastically changing group sizes
among North American bats, research into understanding the potential impacts of sociality on
survivorship is of significant conservation importance. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1657452023-04-12T08:10:21Z Does sociality increase survivorship in bats Neo, Wivian Hui Yuan Lee Ser Huay Janice Teresa Asian School of the Environment University of Waterloo Hugh G Broders janicelee@ntu.edu.sg, hugh.broders@uwaterloo.ca Social sciences::Geography::Environmental sciences Bats are highly gregarious mammals, and many species within the taxa exhibit social behaviour. Several hypotheses on the costs and benefits of sociality amongst bats have been investigated, including social thermoregulation, predator avoidance, and pathogen transfer. From other taxa, we know that the probability of survival may vary with an individual’s gregariousness. Thus, we examined if individual sociality explains the individual’s probability of annual survival in female little brown myotis (Myotis lucifugus). By implanting bats with passive integrated transponders and monitoring several roost boxes with readers, we monitored co-roosting frequency among little brown myotis in a maternity group. We employed social network analysis to quantify sociality with the network metrics strength and betweenness centrality. We found that adult female bats with a higher strength and thus more associates had a lower probability of survival to the next year. However, we found no significant change in the probability of survival based on their betweenness centrality, or how influential the individuals were in linking different subgroups together. There was no evidence that sociality amongst juveniles had a significant effect on the probability of survival. This suggests that there might be other drivers of sociality, such as roost limitation or fitness benefit of maternal sociality on juvenile survivorship. With white-nose syndrome drastically changing group sizes among North American bats, research into understanding the potential impacts of sociality on survivorship is of significant conservation importance. Bachelor of Science in Environmental Earth Systems Science 2023-04-10T01:58:13Z 2023-04-10T01:58:13Z 2023 Final Year Project (FYP) Neo, W. H. Y. (2023). Does sociality increase survivorship in bats. Final Year Project (FYP), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/165745 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/165745 en application/pdf Nanyang Technological University |
| spellingShingle | Social sciences::Geography::Environmental sciences Neo, Wivian Hui Yuan Does sociality increase survivorship in bats |
| title | Does sociality increase survivorship in bats |
| title_full | Does sociality increase survivorship in bats |
| title_fullStr | Does sociality increase survivorship in bats |
| title_full_unstemmed | Does sociality increase survivorship in bats |
| title_short | Does sociality increase survivorship in bats |
| title_sort | does sociality increase survivorship in bats |
| topic | Social sciences::Geography::Environmental sciences |
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