
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ellis, WAH 
A1  - Marples, TG 
A1  - Phillips, WR 
T1  - The Effects of a Temperature-Determined Food-Supply on the Annual Activity Cycle of the Lesser Long-Eared Bat, Nyctophilus-Geoffroyi Leach, 1821 (Microchiroptera, Vespertilionidae)
JF  - Australian Journal of Zoology
JO  - Aust. J. Zool.
Y1  - 1991
VL  - 39
IS  - 3
SP  - 263
EP  - 271
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/ZO9910263 
N2  - Tritiated-water turnover rates for captive Nyctophilus geoffroyi were highest at 1031.3 mL L-1 day-1 for lactating females in January 1985 and lowest at 82.5 mL L-1 day-1 for females receiving a temperature-determined food supply in July 1985. Daily rates of water turnover were generally higher for males than females, and for bats receiving ad libitum food than for those receiving a controlled food supply throughout winter, indicating that food availability affects torpor in N. geoffroyi. Pre-winter fat deposition was more efficient under conditions of a temperature-determined food supply, where activity, weight and fat-level fluctuations of captive N. geoffroyi closely resembled those known for free-ranging temperate-zone microchiropterans. 
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