Bats of the subfamily Glossophaginae (family Phyllostomidae) are arguably the most specialized of mammalian nectarivores, and hundreds of neotropical plants rely on them for pollination1,2. But flowers pollinated by bats are not known to specialize for bat subgroups (unlike flowers that have adapt...
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In the wild, important plants – from bananas and mangos to nuts, dates and figs – all depend upon bats for pollination and seed dropping.In the southwestern part of the United States, nectar-feeding bats are the main pollinators of the giant saguaro cactus....
hollow trees and abandoned houses. They have an active nightlife and a diverse diet such as insects, fruits, nectar, fish, small crustaceans, and blood (vampire bats). Bats are animals with crucial ecological roles, including pest control, pollination andseed dispersal, especially those of insect...
Also, bats feed on a wide variety of resources (e.g., arthropods, vertebrates, fruit, pollen and blood), play important ecological roles and provide economic benefits, such as pollination, seed dispersion and pest control [18, 22]. Global scale: historical, phylogenetic and geographical ...
Comparative pollination biology of Venezuelan columnar cacti and the role of nectar-feeding bats in their sexual reproduction. The floral biology, reproductive system, and visitation behavior of pollinators of four species of columnar cacti, Stenocereus griseus, Pilosocereus moritz... JM Nassar,N ...
Most bats are insectivorous, and they are important to humans primarily for their predation on insects, for pollination, and forseed dispersal. Little is known of the spectrum ofinsectspecies consumed, but the sheer quantity isformidable. TheMexican free-tailed batsof Texas have been estimated to...
Most bats are insectivorous, and they are important to humans primarily for their predation on insects, for pollination, and forseed dispersal. Little is known of the spectrum ofinsectspecies consumed, but the sheer quantity isformidable. TheMexican free-tailed batsof Texas have been estimated to...
nocturnal pollinationnectar-feeding behaviorbat-flower interactionforaging periodicityBat鈥揻lower interactions appear to be an important factor in the reproductive phenology and population structure of plants1. In the Old World tropics, pteropodid bats visit at least 141 species of plants for nectar or...
The Old World fruit bat subfamily Macroglossinae (and some other fruit bats) and certain leaf-nosed bats feed, at least in part, on nectar and pollen. Many tropical flowers, adapted for pollination by these bats, open at night, are white or inconspicuous, have a sour, rancid, or mammalia...