Supply determines demand: Influence of partner quality and quantity on the interactions between bats and pitcher plants

Oecologia

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 191-202

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITI BRUNEI DARUSSALAM   (Brunei Darussalam)

Author keywords

Kerivoula hardwickii; Mutualism; Nepenthes; Roost quality; Roost selection

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BAT; BIODIVERSITY; BODY CONDITION; CARNIVOROUS PLANT; FECES; HABITAT TYPE; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MICROCLIMATE; MUTUALISM;

KERIVOULA HARDWICKII; NEPENTHES; NEPENTHES BICALCARATA; SARRACENIACEAE;

ADAPTATION; ANGIOSPERM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BAT; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; PARASITE LOAD; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANGIOSPERMS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; CHIROPTERA; FEMALE; MALE; PARASITE LOAD; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84882820432     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-013-2615-x     Document Type: Article

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