The role of frugivorous bats in tropical forest succession

Biological Reviews

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 573-590

  Muscarella, Robert ^a   Fleming, Theodore H ^a  

^a Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

Frugivory; Phyllostomidae; Pteropodidae; Seed dispersal; Tropical succession

Indexed keywords

BAT; BIRD; ECOLOGY; FRUIT; INDONESIA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PARROT; REVIEW; RIVER; SHRUB; TAXONOMY; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; ECOSYSTEM; FRUIT; POLLINATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

ANIMALIA; ARTIBEUS; PHYLLOSTOMIDAE; PTEROPODIDAE;

EID: 35348932658     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2007.00026.x     Document Type: Review

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