Uniting niche differentiation and dispersal limitation predicts tropical forest succession

DH Dent, S Estrada-Villegas - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2021 - cell.com
Tropical secondary forests are increasingly important for carbon sequestration and
biodiversity conservation worldwide; yet, we still cannot accurately predict community …

Functional responses to edge effects: Seed dispersal in the southern Atlantic forest, Argentina

NI Vespa, G Zurita, MI Bellocq - Forest Ecology and Management, 2014 - Elsevier
Recent studies have advanced our understanding of the mechanisms behind population
and community responses to edge effects. However, functional responses remain poorly …

Fruit secondary compounds mediate the retention time of seeds in the guts of Neotropical fruit bats

JW Baldwin, SR Whitehead - Oecologia, 2015 - Springer
Plants often recruit frugivorous animals to transport their seeds; however, gut passage can
have varying effects on plant fitness depending on the physical and chemical treatment of …

Seed dispersal by bats across four successional stages of a subandean landscape

MA Garavito, LM Renjifo… - Biota Colombiana, 2014 - revistas.humboldt.org.co
La relación mutualista entre murciélago-vegetación, además de los beneficios individuales,
contribuye de manera importante a la regeneración de los bosques tropicales a través de la …

Seed dispersal among three different vegetation communities in the Huasteca region, Mexico, analyzed from bat feces

RG Morales, L Chapa-Vargas… - Acta …, 2012 - ingentaconnect.com
Seed dispersal is a key process for plant colonization and for the establishment of many
plant populations in tropical environments. A large proportion of all tropical woody plants …

Habitat edge context and the distribution of phyllostomid bats in the Andean forest and anthropogenic matrix in the Central Andes of Colombia

N Cortés-Delgado, J Pérez-Torres - Biodiversity and Conservation, 2011 - Springer
Bats play an important role in the ecosystem as seed dispersers, pollinators and pest
controllers. In particular, frugivorous bats are important for regeneration processes in open …

A more efficient technique to collect seeds dispersed by bats

J Galindo-González, G Vázquez-Domínguez… - Journal of Tropical …, 2009 - cambridge.org
Seeds dispersed and deposited by wind, animals and other dispersal agents are a
fundamental component of natural forest succession, plant regeneration and population …

Evaluating the macro and micro geographic mechanisms that modulate the coexistence between sympatric Sturnira bat species

E Mosquera-Izquierdo, RA Saldana-Vazquez… - Biodiversity and …, 2023 - Springer
One of the key questions in ecology is to understand the mechanisms that modulate the
coexistence between sympatric species. Climate and habitat perturbation gradients have …

Dieta de las especies dominantes del ensamblaje de murciélagos frugívoros en un bosque seco tropical (Colombia)

MC Ríos-Blanco, J Pérez-Torres - Mastozoología neotropical, 2015 - SciELO Argentina
La frugivoría por murciélagos es uno de los hábitos alimentarios más importante para los
procesos de regeneración de los bosques neotropicales, pero su importancia en un hábitat …

Relative importance of seed‐bank and post‐disturbance seed dispersal on early gap regeneration in a Colombian Amazon Forest

LS Castillo, PR Stevenson - Biotropica, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Early forest gap regeneration may be generated by postdisturbance seed rain and by seed,
seedling or bud banks (ie, resprouting). The relative importance of each process may …