Our understanding of the biological strategies employed by species to cope with challenges posed by aridity is still limited. Despite being sensitive to water loss, bats successfully inhabit a wide range of arid lands. We here investigated how functional traits of bat assemblages vary along the global aridity gradient to identify traits that favour their persistence in arid environments.

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蝙蝠的干旱梯度上功能性状变异的总体格局

我们对物种用于应对干旱带来的挑战的生物学策略的理解仍然有限。尽管蝙蝠对失水很敏感，但它们成功地栖息在许多干旱的土地上。我们在这里调查蝙蝠组合的功能性状如何沿着全球干旱梯度变化，以识别有助于它们在干旱环境中持久存在的性状。