The phrase "as hibernacula" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing habitats or shelters for animals, particularly during hibernation.
Example: "The caves served as hibernacula for the local bear population during the winter months."
Alternatives: "as shelters" or "as winter homes".
We also set a few wooden boxes in the forest, with the hopes that some dwarf lemurs will adopt them as "hibernacula" in the next few weeks.
Swarming begins in August, when bats of both sexes congregate at sites that will later serve as hibernacula, apparently to assess the site's suitability for hibernation, and later to mate and commence daytime torpor [23], [25] [26].
Burrow temperatures were also measured telemetrically in 20 different hibernacula as described elsewhere [57].
In some hibernacula, populations plunged by as much as ninety-seven per cent.
"These aggregations are frequently found in protected places called hibernacula that can be as varied as crevices and cracks of rocks or trunks, beneath the bark of trees, between walls of buildings, or any other natural or artificial structures that provides protection during hibernation".
In April, the total number of bats and the number of Gd-suspect bats decreased as bats left the hibernacula.
It would be important to investigate whether bats carry spores out of hibernacula and as a result could possibly contaminate maternity roosts and maternity mates as suggested by Hallam and McCracken [28].
By restricting our concern to only climatic abiotic conditions, we run the risk of omitting consideration of non-climatic abiotic conditions; for example, the availability of abiotic refugia such as rock crevices or subterranean hibernacula.
Finally, the presence of G. destructans spores on cave walls suggests that hibernacula could act as passive vectors and/or reservoirs for G. destructans and therefore, might play an important role in the transmission process.
We also isolated viable G. destructans from the walls of an underground site suggesting that the hibernacula could act as passive vectors and/or reservoirs for G. destructans and therefore, might play an important role in the transmission process.
A previously unknown fungus called Geomyces destructans is behind the disease, which has a mortality rate as high as 100percentt in some batcaves, or "hibernacula".
