Seasonal changes in species composition, resource use and reproductive patterns within a guild of nectar-feeding bats in a west Mexican dry forest

Journal of Tropical Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 133-145

  Sperr, Ellen B ^a   Caballero Martínez, Luis Antonio ^b   Medellin, Rodrigo A ^b   Tschapka, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

bat assemblages; chiropterophily; community ecology; Glossophaginae; Musonycteris harrisoni; Phyllostomidae; seasonality

Indexed keywords

CACTUS; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DIET; DRY FOREST; FRUIT; NECTARIVORY; NICHE OVERLAP; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; RESOURCE USE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ANOURA GEOFFROYI; CACTACEAE; CAPPARACEAE; CLEOME; CLEOME SPINOSA; GLOSSOPHAGA SORICINA; GLOSSOPHAGINAE; LEPTONYCTERIS YERBABUENAE; MALVACEAE; MUSONYCTERIS HARRISONI; PACHYCEREUS PECTEN-ABORIGINUM; PHYLLOSTOMIDAE;

EID: 79957449762     PISSN: 02664674     EISSN: 14697831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0266467410000714     Document Type: Article

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