Bats facilitate the reproductive success of these agricultural plants, including seed set and the recruitment of new seedlings and saplings.Pollinator conservation policy provides a new avenue for progressive food legislation. The worldwide role of bats in the context of their respective agricultural ...
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In much of the United States, bats are essential to controlling insect populations—their primary prey—and even consume crop pests in large quantities, reducing the need for large-scale pesticide use. In many other parts of the world, bats serve as important pollinators and seed dispersers for...
One thing that often surprises people about bats is their important role in ecosystems as pollinators and pest controllers. Without bats, many plant species would struggle to reproduce, and insect populations would soar out of control. It's hard to believe that some people still hold negative be...
Apart from the long-recognized role in improving human sonar and radar systems, bats play critical ecological roles as insect controllers, pollinators, and seed dispersers (Fenton and Simmons, 2014; Kunz et al., 2011). Yet, bats are vulnerable to a range of human threats, ranging from well...
(frugivores) and pollinators (nectarivores) in this group. Therefore, they are likely to contribute to post-fire vegetation recovery in the region (de Oliveira and Aguiar2015). While our review focused on echolocating bats, Old World fruit bats are another understudied group of bats who are ...
Bats are widespread mammals that play key roles in ecosystems as pollinators and insectivores. However, there is a paucity of information about bat-associated microbes, in particular their fungal communities, despite the important role microbes play in host health and overall host function. The eme...
Preserving biodiversity and the ecosystem services (ES) it provides is vital to sustainability. With over half of all people living in cities, urban ES play an especially important role. Bats are the most speciose mammalian group in many cities and may p
Pollination biology and the relative importance of nocturnal and diurnal pollinators in three species of Sonoran Desert columnar cacti Southwest. Nat., 41 (1996), pp. 257-269 View in ScopusGoogle Scholar 23 C. Korine, I. Ishaki, Z. Arad Is the Egyptian fruit-bat Rousettus aegyptiacus a pe...