Intensification in land-use and farming practices has had largely negative effects on bats,
leading to population declines and concomitant losses of ecosystem services. Current …

Land-use change is a key driver of the global biodiversity crisis and a particularly serious
threat to tropical biodiversity. Throughout the tropics, the staggering pace of deforestation …

Neotropical frugivorous bats display a trophic structure composed of bat species with dietary
preferences of core plant taxa (Artibeus-Ficus+ Cecropia, Carollia-Piper, Sturnira-Solanum+ …

Bat communities in the Neotropics are some of the most speciose assemblages of mammals
on Earth, with regions supporting more than 100 sympatric species with diverse feeding …

Based on principles of the conservation and optimization of biodiversity and of equity and
sustainability, this book focuses on the ecology of the coffee agroecosystem as a model for a …

Abstract Background and Aims Much of our understanding of the ecology and evolution of
seed dispersal in the Neotropics is founded on studies involving the animal-dispersed …

Melastomataceae species successfully colonize, and in many cases dominate, ecosystems
ranging from forest to open vegetation, from sea level to mountain summits, and isolated …

The Peperomia is one of the giant genus among Angiosperms with approximately 1600
species spread in the tropics. Their species are valuable as ornamental and several …

Phyllostomid bats are a keystone group in the succession of Neotropical plant communities
and knowledge of their diet is essential in the study of bat–plant interactions. The most used …

This is the first complete assessment of the ectoparasite fauna on phyllostomid bats in a
shaded coffee plantation in Mexico. The study was carried out at Finca San Carlos, in the …