Tropical secondary forest management influences frugivorous bat composition, abundance and fruit consumption in Chiapas, Mexico. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Most studies on frugivorous bat assemblages in secondary forests have concentrated on differences among successional stages, and have disregarded the effect of forest management.
Ivar Vleut +4 more
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Cyclic bouts of extreme bradycardia counteract the high metabolism of frugivorous bats. [PDF]
Elife, 2017 Active flight requires the ability to efficiently fuel bursts of costly locomotion while maximizing energy conservation during non-flying times. We took a multi-faceted approach to estimate how fruit-eating bats (Uroderma bilobatum) manage a high-energy lifestyle fueled primarily by fig juice.
O'Mara MT +7 more
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Veterinary Sciences, 2023 The number of rabies cases in bats has increased recently in Brazil and in the state of São Paulo, representing a new epidemiological scenario for this zoonosis.
Ana Beatriz Garcia +6 more
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Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2018 To clarify the role of bats in the ecology of Ebola viruses, we assessed the prevalence of Ebola virus antibodies in a large-scale sample of bats collected during 2015–2017 from countries in Africa that have had previous Ebola outbreaks (Guinea, the ...
Helene M. De Nys +24 more
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Frugivory of bats in a threatened semiarid region in southeastern Brazil
Mammalogy Notes, 2022 Fruit bats have a high seed dispersal capacity contributing to the establishment of numerous plant species. In this work we examined the frugivorous diet of phyllostomid bats in the Cavernas do Peruaçu National Park, north of Minas Gerais, Brazil, an ...
Sebastião Genelhú +3 more
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The role of bats in pollination networks is influenced by landscape structure
Global Ecology and Conservation, 2019 Nectarivorous bats are essential to the functioning to both agricultural and natural ecosystems in the tropics, yet these pollinator communities are declining as a result of habitat loss and hunting.
Tuanjit Sritongchuay +2 more
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Ground-Vegetation Clutter Affects Phyllostomid Bat Assemblage Structure in Lowland Amazonian Forest.
PLoS ONE, 2015 Vegetation clutter is a limiting factor for bats that forage near ground level, and may determine the distribution of species and guilds. However, many studies that evaluated the effects of vegetation clutter on bats have used qualitative descriptions ...
Rodrigo Marciente +2 more
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Drinking and flying: does alcohol consumption affect the flight and echolocation performance of phyllostomid bats? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2010 In the wild, frugivorous and nectarivorous bats often eat fermenting fruits and nectar, and thus may consume levels of ethanol that could induce inebriation. To understand if consumption of ethanol by bats alters their access to food and general survival
Dara N Orbach +4 more
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Bat-fruit interactions are more specialized in shaded-coffee plantations than in tropical mountain cloud forest fragments. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Forest disturbance causes specialization of plant-frugivore networks and jeopardizes mutualistic interactions through reduction of ecological redundancy. To evaluate how simplification of a forest into an agroecosystem affects plant-disperser mutualistic
Jesús R Hernández-Montero +3 more
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The os penis of the frugivorous bat, Eidolon helvum (Kerr)
Folia morphologica, 2000 (Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) No abstract provided.
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