items in addition to insects. Many species feed primarily on fruit, while several types feed on nectar and pollen. Fruit bats perform an extremely important function as seed dispersers. Nectar-eating bats are important pollinators. Many plant species depend almost entirely on bats for pollination....
In Asian countries, bats are majorly valued (in terms of material and immaterial assets) as an important source of food. Other benefits include acting as an important source of revenue, guano, as well as sustaining food production through pollination. In India, bats are hunted and form an imp...
This species of flying fox is known for its pollination activity. It is known to frequent the eastern coastline in search of flowering eucalyptus trees. They are only common in the area when these trees are flowering. Once pollination season is over, they vacate the area. Physically, they hav...
000 species can be found all over the world except in the northern and southern polar areas. They perform important ecosystem services such as control of insects, reseeding of cut forests and pollination of plants, which provide food for humans and animals. On the other side, they are also ...
Bats provide essential ecological services (e.g., pest suppression, pollination, seed dispersal) near houses, villages, and cities (Jones et al. 2009; Kunz et al. 2011; Ghanem and Voigt 2012). For example, synanthropic bats, such as molossids, feed on large quantities of insects that are...
"Bats in the Classroom? Investigating How Bats May Be Used as a Subject for Study in Science and Cross-Curricular Studies" by Paul Elliot,School Science Review, December 1995. "The Birds and the Beesand the Bats" by MaryAnn Foote,Science Teacher, April 1990. Pollination vectors of a variety...
This study was carried out in an agricultural area of the department of Córdoba, where there is no high exposure to polluting sources such as the gold and nickel exploitation contrary to the La Mojana region. Pollutants reach water bodies and settle in ecosystems and flow through food chains ...
Pollination by the locally endangered island flying fox (Pteropus hypomelanus) enhances fruit production of the economically important durian (Durio zibethinus) Ecol. Evol., 7 (2017), pp. 8670-8684 CrossrefView in ScopusGoogle Scholar Bandura, 2000 A. Bandura Exercise of human agency through coll...
On the plus side, bats have great utility to people through the ecosystem ser- vices they provide as agents of pest suppression, pollination and seed dispersal, and sources of guano (Kunz et al. 2011). Boyles et al. (2011) estimated that bats may collectively save the US agricultural...
Attempts to evict such bats would likely expose them to unsustainable hunting pressures, threatening whole ecosystems that rely on their pollination and seed dispersal (Racey 2004; Chap. 23) (Fig. 18.4). There is an urgent need to rein in the recent wave of sensational reporting (e.g., ...