Small Tent-Roosting Bats Promote Dispersal of Large-Seeded Plants in a Neotropical Forest

Biotropica

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 737-743

  Melo, Felipe P L ^a   Rodriguez Herrera, Bernal ^a   Chazdon, Robin L ^b   Medellin, Rodrigo A ^a   Ceballos, Gerardo G ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Costa Rica; Defaunation; Forest regeneration; Frugivorous bats; Seed dispersal

Indexed keywords

BAT; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISTURBANCE; FRUGIVORY; FRUIT; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HUNTING; NEOTROPICAL REGION; PATCHINESS; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REGENERATION; ROOSTING; SEED DISPERSAL;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA; SARAPIQUI BASIN;

ARTIBEUS GLAUCUS WATSONI;

EID: 70449484237     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2009.00528.x     Document Type: Article

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