The role of extrinsic and intrinsic factors in Neotropical fruit bat-plant interactions

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 632-639

  Saldaña Vázquez, Romeo A ^a,b   Sosa, Vinicio J ^a   Iñiguez Dávalos, Luis I ^c   Schondube, Jorge E ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ECOSISTEMAS Y SUSTENTABILIDAD   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUADALAJARA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Chiroptera; Diet preferences; Frugivory; Meta analysis; Mutualism; Phyllostomidae

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; BAT; BODY SIZE; DIET; ECOREGION; FOOD PREFERENCE; FRUGIVORY; META-ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; MUTUALISM; NEOTROPIC ECOZONE; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION;

BAHIA; BRAZIL;

ANIMALIA; ARTIBEUS; CAROLLIA; CECROPIA; CHIROPTERA; PHYLLOSTOMIDAE; SOLANUM; STURNIRA;

EID: 84878874547     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: 15451542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/11-MAMM-A-370.1     Document Type: Article

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