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Table 2 Mean (± SE) torpor parameters of Myotis lucifugus hibernating at the Williams Preserve Mine

From: The evolution of a bat population with white-nose syndrome (WNS) reveals a shift from an epizootic to an enzootic phase

Hibernation Period

N

Mean Torpor Bout (d)

Torpor Bout Range (d)

Minimum Tskin (°C)

Maximum Tskin (°C)

2008–09

17

7.58 ± 1.39a*

1.51–18.63

7.0 ± 0.5a*

33.8 ± 0.6a*

2013–14

13

14.68 ± 1.58b

6.89–24.40

8.0 ± 0.3b

30.0 ± 0.8b

2014–15

7

12.90 ± 2.00b

9.19–24.20

9.1 ± 0.7b

33.1 ± 1.0a

  1. * Means within a category sharing a common lower-case letter are not statistically different at the p < 0.05 level
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Frontiers in Zoology

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