Frugivorous bats maintain functional habitat connectivity in agricultural landscapes but rely strongly on natural forest fragments

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Ripperger, Simon P ^a,b   Kalko, Elisabeth K V ^b,c   Rodríguez Herrera, Bernal ^d   Mayer, Frieder ^a,e   Tschapka, Marco ^b,c  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND BIODIVERSITY SCIENCE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^e BERLIN BRANDENBURG INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH BBIB   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BAT; BIODIVERSITY; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMANURA WATSONI; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FAUNA; FEMALE; FORAGING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FOREST; FOREST FRAGMENTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT SELECTION; LANDSCAPE; MALE; MOSAICISM; NONHUMAN; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TELEMETRY; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS;

ANIMALIA; ARTIBEUS GLAUCUS WATSONI; PHYLLOSTOMIDAE;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CHIROPTERA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FORESTS; GENETIC VARIATION; MALE;

EID: 84927139078     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120535     Document Type: Article

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