Flying foxes are of particular interest as vectors because of their propensity to disperse over a large territory and to live in urban areas. Tioman virus, a paramyxovirus isolated from fruit bats (Pteropus spp) in Malaysia, is of unknown public health importance, but a correlation may exist be...
Bats also consume the same species of mosquitos that are vectors of the West Nile virus and malaria, phlebotomine sandflies that transmit leishmaniasis, as well as insects that damage stored products. Ecosystem services rendered by phytophagous bats (pollination and seed dispersal) in urban areas ...
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 of types are described ...
Recent threats such as the spread of white-nose syndrome in North America, the construction of windmill farms, the hunting of flying foxes, and the loss of habitat have all put bats and their ESs at risk. 展开 关键词: disease vectors, timber production, flowers, foods, pollination, seeds,...
Bats are the only mammals with the capacity of powered flight. Nearly 1,000 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...
disease vectors, timber production, flowers, foods, pollination, seeds, wind farms, Pteropodidae, ecosystems, habitat destruction, risk, forest regeneration, animal manures, humans, ecosystem services, insect pests, economic valuation, energyEcosystem services (ESs) provided by animals are increasingly ...
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...
Pollen dispersal in tropical seed plants is established mainly by biotic vectors, both in intact and fragmented environments. In urban landscapes, the segregation of natural remnants by an artificial matrix can reduce pollinator foraging efficiency. It is unknown how nectarivorous bats, regarded as ...
gounellei, there was no fruit set from spontaneous or manual self-pollination, indicating that allogamy is the predominant reproductive system in all the species studied. These species thus rely on animals that function as efficient pollen vectors for their sexual reproduction. The Pilosocereus ...