Read our latest blog post by @laura-paltrinieri.bsky.social‬, whose research reveals how temperature and rainfall affect the body size of European bats. 🦇

Laura offers insights into their resilience, vulnerability, and what it means for conservation in a warming world. 🌍

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@laura-paltrinieri.bsky.social explaining her poster on spatiotemporal niche partitioning in arboreal primates for almost 3 hours! Great attendance! #atbc2025

Here we go!!! Congress time! So happy to be back at the ATBC annual meeting 6 years later. #ATBC2025 @iagoferreiro.bsky.social @laura-paltrinieri.bsky.social

Thanks to the Climbats - COST Action🦇🌍 and my many coauthors for providing the data and the opportunity to conduct this study on the effects of climate on bat morphology across space and time!
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Did you know?🦇Bats change size to adapt to local climate! Our meta-analysis revealed that:
🌡️ Bats are larger in colder climates (Bergmann’s rule)
🌡️ Males show positive allometry between BodyMass and ForearmLength with temperature (Allen's rule)
🌧️ Females are larger in areas with higher precipitation

🎉My first paper is finally out!
We tested Allen’s and Bergmann’s rules on 20 European bat species🦇, exploring how their morphology changes across space and time in response to temperature🌡️ and precipitation🌧️ shifts.
📖Check it out here: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....