Evidence for exploitative competition: Comparative foraging behavior and roosting ecology of short-tailed fruit bats (Phyllostomidae)

Biotropica

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 249-256

  Bonaccorso, Frank J ^a,c   Winkelmann, John R ^b   Shin, Danny ^a   Agrawal, Caroline I ^a   Aslami, Nadia ^a   Bonney, Caitlin ^a   Hsu, Andrea ^a   Jekielek, Phoebe E ^a   Knox, Allison K ^a   Kopach, Stephen J ^a   Jennings, Tara D ^a   Lasky, Jesse R ^a   Menesale, Sarah A ^a   Richards, Jeannine H ^a   Rutland, Jessica A ^a   Sessa, Anna K ^a   Zhaurova, Luba ^a   Kunz, Thomas H ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GETTYSBURG COLLEGE   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bats; Carollia castanea; Carollia perspicillata; Core use area; Day roost; Ecuador; Home range; Piper hispidum; Radio telemetry; Rain forest

Indexed keywords

BAT; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FRUIT; HOME RANGE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; RADIOTELEMETRY; ROOSTING;

ECUADOR; ORELLANA; SOUTH AMERICA; TIPUTINI RIVER;

CAPSICUM; CAROLLIA CASTANEA; CAROLLIA PERSPICILLATA; CECROPIA; CECROPIA SCIADOPHYLLA; PHYLLOSTOMIDAE; PIPER HISPIDUM; PIPERACEAE; SEBA;

EID: 33846942290     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2006.00251.x     Document Type: Article

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