Fruit Bats (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) as Seed Dispersers and Pollinators in a Lowland Malaysian Rain Forest1

By Robert Hodgkison, Sharon T. Balding, A. Zubaid, Thomas H. Kunz. 2003

147 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Social Psychology

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In Ecology

1. P. Racey
2. D. Jacobs
3. M. Willig
4. Gareth J. F. Jones
5. Thomas H. Kunz
6. A. Dobson
7. P. Daszak
8. D. Russo

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Gareth J. F. Jones
2. P. Racey
3. D. Jacobs
4. M. Willig
5. Thomas H. Kunz
6. A. Dobson
7. A. Zubaid
8. D. Russo

Citations in the corpus

• Pteropus vampyrus, a hunted migratory species with a multinational home‐range and a need for regional management (2009, background): “…nectivorous bats (Eby 1991; Webb & Tidemann 1996) play critical roles in the pollination and seed dispersal of more than 289 commercially and ecologically important plant species, including tropical hardwood trees (Howe & Smallwood 1982; Fujita & Tuttle 1991; Utzurrum 1995; Hodgkison et al. 2003).”
• Carpe noctem: the importance of bats as bioindicators (2009, background): “Old World pteropodids and New World phyllostomids are important pollinators and seed dispersers for a number of ecologically and economically important plants (Fujita & Tuttle 1991, Kunz & Pierson 1994, Kunz 1996, Hodgkison et al. 2003).”