High similarity between a bat-serviced plant assemblage and that used by humans

Biological Conservation

Volumn 174, Issue , 2014, Pages 111-119

  Scanlon, Annette Therese ^a   Petit, Sophie ^a   Tuiwawa, Marika ^b   Naikatini, Alivereti ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC   (Fiji)

Author keywords

Chiroptera; Ecosystem services; Islands; Paleotropical; Pteropodidae; Traditional ecological knowledge

Indexed keywords

BAT; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DIET; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENDEMISM; FOREST MANAGEMENT; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; NATURAL RESOURCE; PALEOTROPICAL KINGDOM; PERCEPTION; PLANT COMMUNITY; POLLINATION; RAINFOREST; SEED DISPERSAL; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE;

FIJI;

EID: 84899068773     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2014.03.023     Document Type: Article

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