Seed Dispersal by Bats in the NeotropicsThis book provides a comprehensive treatment of all known bat-dispersed plants in the New World tropics and covers a total of 549 species in 191 genera from 62 plant families. It places a special emphasis on the flowering plants and bat fauna of the relatively undisturbed forests of central French Guiana. In particular, detailed descriptions of 112 bat-dispersed species from that area are complemented by color photographs that will help other researchers identify fruits and seeds throughout the Neotropics. Going beyond merely describing these species, the authors compare and analyze the diverse traits of plants dispersed by bats to reexamine bat preferences of some fruiting plants over the others, a phenomenon known as the "bat-fruit syndrome." The seed dispersers too are given ample treatment, with descriptions of the foraging ecology and feeding behaviors of the 37 fruit-eating bats found in central French Guiana. The monograph includes complementing appendices that allow the reader to determine all bat species reported to feed on the fruits of a particular plant and all fruiting plants in the diet of a particular bat species. It summarizes decades of research on bat-plant interactions from many parts of the Neotropics, providing a stimulus for further ecological and evolutionary studies-- |
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Materials and Methods | 25 |
BatDispersed Plants | 35 |
Humiriaceae | 69 |
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Appendix Araceae aril Artibeus jamaicensis Artibeus axillary Bat Species Reference Bats feed birds Brosset brown Carollia castanea Carollia perspicillata Cecropia Cecropia obtusa Cecropiaceae Chiroderma Clusiaceae cm diam current study Cyclanthaceae Delaval diaspores diet Dinerstein disperse the seeds dispersed by bats drupes ellipsoid endocarp endozoochorously epiphytic fecal samples Ficus sp figs Fleming fleshy foraging Free of leaves French Guiana frugivorous frugivorous bats Fruits berries fruits/infructescences Gardner genera Giannini & Kalko glabrous Glossophaga Glossophaga soricina Goodwin & Greenhall Gorchov guianensis Handley Heithaus Howell & Burch mesocarp Micronycteris Moraceae Mori Neotropics obovoid ovoid Palmeirim pericarp Pericarp Seed Philodendron Phyllostomus Phyllostomus hastatus Pijl Piperaceae Plant Species Bat Plate Platyrrhinus Platyrrhinus helleri pulp Pyrene Reis & Peracchi Rhinophylla Rhinophylla pumilio SaĆ¼l seed dispersal Seeds numerous shrubs Simmons Solanaceae Solanum soricina Species Bat Species species in CFG Spondias stomatochorously Sturnira Sturnira lilium Sturnira tildae synonym trees Uroderma Uroderma bilobatum Vampyressa Vampyrodes Vismia Wendeln