A novel resource-service mutualism between bats and pitcher plants

Biology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 436-439

  Grafe, T Ulmar ^a   Schöner, Caroline R ^b   Kerth, Gerald ^c   Junaidi, Anissa ^a   Schöner, Michael G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI BRUNEI DARUSSALAM   (Brunei Darussalam)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Kerivoula hardwickii; Mutualism; Nepenthes rafflesiana variety elongata; Nitrogen acquisition

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN;

BAT; CARNIVORE; DICOTYLEDON; FECES; MUTUALISM; NITROGEN; POLLEN RAIN; SEED DISPERSAL; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BAT; CHEMISTRY; FECES; FEMALE; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SARRACENIACEAE; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHIROPTERA; FECES; FEMALE; MALE; NITROGEN; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; SARRACENIACEAE; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; HEXAPODA; KERIVOULA HARDWICKII; MAMMALIA; NEPENTHES; NEPENTHES RAFFLESIANA; SARRACENIACEAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79958783459     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.1141     Document Type: Article

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