A dataset containing the percent body fat of little brown bats sampled in
Aeolus Cave, located in East Dorset, Vermont, in the North Eastern United States.
Usage
data(bodyfat_Aeolus)
Arguments
Format
A data frame with 159 rows and 4 variables:
sex
sex of the sampled bat, M for masculine and F for
feminine.
percentfat
percent body fat.
year
year the bat was sampled.
days
hibernation time, defined as days since the fall equinox.
Details
The complete dataset was collected by Cheng et al. (2019) in five
different regions of the United States. bodyfat_Aeolus is the subset
of the data collected in Aeolus Cave, located in East Dorset, Vermont,
in the North Eastern United States.
References
Cheng TL, Gerson A, Moore MS, et al. (2019) Higher fat stores
contribute to persistence of little brown bat populations with white-nose
syndrome. J Anim Ecol. 88:591-600.
https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12954