Abstract
ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Karoline Skåra is first author on ‘ Energetics of whiskered bats in comparison to other bats of the family Vespertilionidae’, published in BiO. Karoline is a PhD student in the lab of Maria Christine Magnus at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health in Oslo, investigating the thermoregulation of whiskered bats in Norway, having recently completed her master's at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway.
Highlights
“... one of the greatest achievements of this field is how we are able to tie all our small stories together...”
Karoline Skåra loss, but perhaps they reveal a more frequent use of torpor compared to southern bats
What are the potential implications of these results for your field of research? No one has ever studied the metabolic rates of whiskered bats (M. mystacinus), and there is very little information on the energetics of bats inhabiting northern latitudes in general
Summary
“... one of the greatest achievements of this field is how we are able to tie all our small stories together...”. Karoline Skåra loss, but perhaps they reveal a more frequent use of torpor compared to southern bats. What are the potential implications of these results for your field of research? We know that environmental temperatures are lower in Norway compared to southern areas, but we do know not how bats cope with the energetic challenges that this introduces.
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