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    • A comparison of fruit removal in Ficus colubrinae between birds and Ectophylla alba (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) in a Costa Rican rain forest 

      De la Llata Quiroga, Edna; Ruedas, Luis; Mora, José Manuel (Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2021-02-02)
      Ectophylla alba almost exclusively feeds on the fruits of Ficus colubrinae therefore significantly contributing to dispersal of its seeds. The objective of this research was to quantify the fruit removal of F. colubrinae ...
    • Agroforestry systems conserve species-rich but modified assemblages of tropical birds and bats 

      Harvey, Celia; González Villalobos, Jorge (Springer, 2007-05-31)
      Although an increasing number of studies have shown that diverse, multi-strata agroforestry systems can contribute to the conservation of tropical biodiversity, there is still debate about how the biodiversity within ...
    • Highly diversified coronaviruses in neotropical bats 

      Spínola, Romeo; Corman, Victor Max; Rasche, Andrea; Diawo Diallo, Thierno; Cottontail, Veronika; Stöcker, Andreas; Dominguez Souza, Breno Frederico de; Corrêa, Jefferson Ivan; Borges Carneiro, Aroldo José; Franke, Carlos Roberto; Nagy, Martina; Metz, Markus; Knörnschild, Mirjam; V. Kalko, Elisabeth K.; Ghanem, Simon J.; Sibaja Morales, Karen D; Salsamendi, Egoitz; Spínola, Manuel; Herrler, Georg; Voigt, Christian C; Tschapka, Marco; Drosten, Christian; Drexler, Jan Felix (Journal of General Virology, 2013-09-01)
      Bats host a broad diversity of coronaviruses (CoVs), including close relatives of human pathogens. There is only limited data on neotropical bat CoVs. We analysed faecal, blood and intestine specimens from 1562 bats sampled ...