Going out for dinner—The consumption of agriculture pests by bats in urban areas

LMS Aguiar, ID Bueno-Rocha, G Oliveira, ES Pires… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Insectivorous bats provide ecosystem services in agricultural and urban landscapes by
consuming arthropods that are considered pests. Bat species inhabiting cities are expected …

Heavy metals and DNA damage in blood cells of insectivore bats in coal mining areas of Catarinense coal basin, Brazil

JJ Zocche, DD Leffa, AP Damiani, F Carvalho… - Environmental …, 2010 - Elsevier
We assessed the content of heavy metals in the liver and the DNA damage in blood cells of
insectivore bats in the Catarinense Carboniferous Basin, Southern Brazil. Three bats …

[HTML][HTML] Murciélagos del área urbana en la ciudad de Montería, Córdoba-Colombia

J Ballesteros, J Racero-Casarrubia - Revista MVZ Córdoba, 2012 - scielo.org.co
Objetivo. Conocer la riqueza de especies de murciélagos del área urbana de la ciudad de
Montería. Materiales y métodos. Durante el período de enero a junio de 2007, se realizaron …

Bat functional traits associated with environmental, landscape, and conservation variables in Neotropical dry forests

CA Díaz-B, A Otálora-Ardila… - Frontiers in Forests …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Tropical dry forests are among the most threatened ecosystems worldwide. Bats' role in
those ecosystems is critical because of multiple bat-mediated processes. Such processes …

Molecular surveillance reveals bats from eastern Colombia infected with Trypanosoma theileri and Trypanosoma wauwau-like parasites

J Jaimes-Dueñez, O Cantillo-Barraza… - Preventive veterinary …, 2020 - Elsevier
Several species of trypanosomes can infect bats (Chiroptera), but current information about
bat trypanosomes in Colombia is scarce. The objectives of this study were to estimate the …

Registro de la pulga Hectopsylla pulex (Haller, 1880)(Siphonaptera: Tungidae) en el murciélago mastín común Molossus molossus (Pallas, 1766)(Chiroptera …

HE Ramírez-Chaves… - Revista …, 2021 - revistas.unicauca.edu.co
La pulga Hectopsylla pulex es un sifonáptero cuyas hembras son parásitos estrictos de
murciélagos. En Colombia, H. pulex ha sido documentada en cinco departamentos de la …

Morphofunctional segregation in molossid bat species (Chiroptera: Molossidae) from the South American Southern Cone

AL Giménez, NP Giannini - 2016 - notablesdelaciencia.conicet.gov.ar
Molossid bats exhibit a great diversity of size and skull morphology which likely reflects
differences in diet a trophic function and may be indicative of the degree of resource …

Comparative study of endocrine pancreatic tissue in bats: Assessing variations among frugivorous, insectivorous, and nectarivorous diets

M Contini, MR Beguelini, TFR Ruiz, SR Taboga… - Tissue and Cell, 2024 - Elsevier
Whether the endocrine pancreas exhibits structural features to couple with dietary patterns is
not fully explored. Considering the lack of data comparing endocrine pancreas and islet cell …

Activity of aerial insectivorous bats in two rice fields in the northwestern Llanos of Venezuela

Y Azofeifa, S Estrada-Villegas, J Mavárez… - Acta …, 2019 - ingentaconnect.com
Even though agricultural lands provide abundant food to aerial insectivorous bats (AIB), our
understanding of how spatio-temporal factors affect their foraging behavior in these habitats …

The chiggerflea Hectopsylla pulex (Siphonaptera: Tungidae): infestation on Molossus molossus (Chiroptera: Molossidae) in the Central Andes of Colombia

HE Ramírez-Chaves, AF Tamayo-Zuluaga… - Zoologia …, 2020 - SciELO Brasil
Some species of mastiff bats, Molossus Geoffroy, 1805, inhabit human shelters such as
houses and barns. Among them, the Pallas's mastiff bat, Molossus molossus Pallas, 1766, is …