How a pitcher plant facilitates roosting of mutualistic woolly bats

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 581-591

  Lim, Yen Shan ^a   Schöner, Caroline R ^b   Schöner, Michael G ^b   Kerth, Gerald ^b   Thornham, Daniel G ^c,d   Scharmann, Mathias ^c,e   Grafe, T Ulmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI BRUNEI DARUSSALAM   (Brunei Darussalam)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Borneo; Carnivorous plants; Kerivoula hardwickii; Mutualism; Nepenthes; Roosting behaviour

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948679249     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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