The Short-Tailed Fruit Bat: A Study in Plant-Animal InteractionsUniversity of Chicago Press, 11 de out. de 1988 - 365 páginas As dusk settles over the Costa Rican forest, the short-tailed fruit bat, Carollia perspicillata, stirs from its cave roost. Flying out to search for ripe fruit, Carollia returns to a night roost in the forest vegetation to eat. After a few such flights Carollia rests, and the fruits pass through its short digestive tract. The seeds are excreted onto the ground, to be eaten in turn by mice and insects, but a few are pushed into crevices where they await the necessary conditions for germination. In The Short-tailed Fruit Bat, Theodore Fleming examines Carollia's role in the ecology of tropical forests. Based on more than ten years' research, this study provides the most detailed ecological and evolutionary account to date of the life history of a Neotropical mammal and includes striking photographs of the bats in flight. |
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Evolution and Ecology of Phyllostomid Bats | 3 |
Mutualistic Interactions between Bats and Plants 37 | 37 |
The Study Area | 53 |
Demography | 79 |
Carollias Sex Ratio | 117 |
Diet and Food Choice | 153 |
Foraging Behavior | 181 |
Energetics | 217 |
Ecological Relationships with Other Animals | 239 |
Botanical Consequences of Carollias | 259 |
Bats Frugivores and Tropical Forests | 287 |
Plants Producing Fruits and Flowers Used for Food by Bats | 314 |
Summary of the Bat Capture Effort 197484 | 320 |
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Termos e frases comuns
Acacia collinsii adult Artibeus Artibeus jamaicensis bats birds Bombacopsis Brachyphyllinae capture rates Carollia Carollia perspicillata Carolliinae cave roosts Cecropia peltata Chlorophora tinctoria clumps Cuajiniquil day roost density Desmodus rotundus diet distance distribution dry forest dry season eaten ecology energy estimates feeding areas females Ficus Figure flight flowers food choice foraging behavior frugivores frugivorous bats fruit species fruiting plants germination Glossophaga Glossophaga soricina groups habitats Heithaus and Fleming indicate individuals insectivorous insects June Karwinskia lactation locations mammals mass mating mist nets Moraceae Muntingia calabura Neotropical netting night roosts occur overlap patterns perspicillata phyllostomid phyllostomid bats Phyllostomus hastatus Piper amalago pollinators predators probably proportion pseudo-fuligineum pteropodid bats recapture Red roost relatively ripe fruits Santa Rosa seed dispersal Sendero cave shrubs social soricina Spondias mombin stenodermines strategy Sturnira subfamilies subrufa tend territorial males tooth-wear transect trees Vampyrum vertebrates wet season