Relation of fig fruit characteristics to fruit-eating bats in the New and Old World tropics

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 565-576

  Kalko, Elisabeth K V ^a,b,c   Herre, Edward Allen ^b   Handley Jr , Charles O ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bats; birds; echolocation; Ficus fruit characteristics; foraging

Indexed keywords

BAT; FIG; FRUGIVORY;

PANAMA;

FICUS; MORACEAE;

EID: 0030302877     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.1996.tb00018.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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