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Article: Bats resilient to climate change <> They still emerge from hibernation at same time
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- August 6, 2008
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Each spring, birds migrate sooner, turtles swim ashore to lay
eggs earlier and flowers bloom before they used to as a result of
global warming. But hibernating bats appear to be resilient to
Wisconsin's changing climate, researchers say.
Despite increasing temperatures in an abandoned iron mine in
central Dodge County -- home to about 150,000 hibernating little
brown bats each winter -- the winged mammals are still emerging from
the mine around the same date in the spring.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee biologist Gretchen Meyer
reported the findings of a seven-year study from the Neda Mine Bat
Hibernaculum on Monday at the Ecological Society of America annual
meeting in Milwaukee.
"The ...
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