Fruit bats and bat fruits: The evolution of fruit scent in relation to the foraging behaviour of bats in the New and Old World tropics

Functional Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1075-1084

  Hodgkison, Robert ^a,b   Ayasse, Manfred ^a   Häberlein, Christopher ^c   Schulz, Stefan ^c   Zubaid, Akbar ^d   Mustapha, Wan Aida W ^d   Kunz, Thomas H ^b   Kalko, Elisabeth K V ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^e SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Chemical ecology; Chiroptera; Co evolution; Foraging behaviour; Olfaction; Phyllostomidae; Pteropodidae; Scent; Seed dispersal syndromes; Terpenes

Indexed keywords

BAT; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL ECOLOGY; COEVOLUTION; DECIDUOUS TREE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FRUGIVORY; FRUIT; MONOTERPENE; ODOR; OLFACTION; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; SEED DISPERSAL; TROPICAL REGION;

MALAYSIA; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

ARTIBEUS; ARTIBEUS JAMAICENSIS; AVES; CHIROPTERA; CYNOPTERUS BRACHYOTIS; PHYLLOSTOMIDAE; PTEROPODIDAE;

EID: 84880711785     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12101     Document Type: Article

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