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An Assessment on Bat Diversity in Curitiba, Paraná State, Subtropical Brazil
Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology, 2021 Urbanization changes natural environments making them inhospitable to autochthonous fauna. However, studies have shown that certain groups and animal species tolerate urban habitat or even benefit from it as is the case of some bats.
Gledson Vigiano Bianconi +1 more
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Phylogenetic Patterns in Mouth Posture and Echolocation Emission Behavior of Phyllostomid Bats
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 While phyllostomid bats show an impressive range of feeding habits, most of them emit highly similar echolocation calls. Due to the presence of an often prominent noseleaf, it has long been assumed that all phyllostomids emit echolocation calls ...
Gloria Gessinger +7 more
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Responses of bats to forest fragmentation at Pozuzo, Peru
Revista Peruana de Biología, 2011 Forest fragmentation and deforestation are among the major threats to Peruvian bats conservation. Unfortunately,information about the effects of these threats above 500 m elevation is lacking.
José Luis Mena
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Caldasia, 2020 The edge effect is one of the consequences of forest fragmentation and is one of the main drivers of alter-ation of ecological and ecosystem processes. Trophic guilds and species of bats have shown differential responses to this phenomenon.
Aída Otálora-Ardila +1 more
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Pathogens, 2021 With 12 of the 31 outbreaks, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is highly affected by Ebolavirus disease (EVD). To better understand the role of bats in the ecology of Ebola viruses, we conducted surveys in bats during two recent EVD outbreaks and in
Audrey Lacroix +15 more
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Bat flies: source of supplement nutrients for an endemic Malagasy fruit bat
Tropical Zoology, 2022 Among frugivorous vertebrates, the nutritional composition of consumed fruits often needs supplementing by other food types, such as leaves, pollen or invertebrates, to meet dietary requirements. The endemic Malagasy fruit bat, Rousettus madagascariensis
Riana Valéry Ramanantsalama +3 more
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Foraging, roosting and survival of Natterer’s bats, Myotis Nattereri, in a commercial coniferous plantation [PDF]
, 2015 I studied Natterer's bats in Tentsmuir Forest, a 9143-hectare commercial coniferous plantation on the NE coast of Fife, Scotland that has been planted predominantly with Scots and Corsican pine.
Mortimer, Garry
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Diseases, 2022 The reservoir for zoonotic o’nyong-nyong virus (ONNV) has remained unknown since this virus was first recognized in Uganda in 1959. Building on existing evidence for mosquito blood-feeding on various frugivorous bat species in Uganda, and seroprevalence ...
Rebekah C. Kading +17 more
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Collpas: Activity Hotspots for Frugivorous Bats (Phyllostomidae) in the Peruvian Amazon [PDF]
, 2007 In the SE Peruvian Amazon, large numbers of frugivorous bats regularly visit natural forest clearings known locally as collpas (which are also referred to as clay licks or mineral licks).
Stevens, Richard D. +7 more
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Feeding habits define habitat use by bats in an agricultural landscape of the Atlantic Forest
Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2020 Agricultural expansion and fragmentation of native habitats is considered to be the major cause of declining biodiversity worldwide, negatively impacting the provision and maintenance of nature’s contributions to people.
Rafael Souza Laurindo +5 more
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