The better to eat you with: Functional correlates of tooth structure in bats

Functional Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 839-847

  Santana, Sharlene E ^a   Strait, Suzanne ^b   Dumont, Elizabeth R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b MARSHALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dental complexity; Diet; Feeding performance; Molars; Phyllostomidae

Indexed keywords

BAT; DIET; EXOSKELETON; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FRUGIVORY; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; INSECT; NICHE PARTITIONING; TOOTH;

HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; PHYLLOSTOMIDAE;

EID: 79959856871     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2011.01832.x     Document Type: Article

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