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Bats Fertilize Roost Trees |
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| Authors: | Christian C. Voigt Ivailo Borissov Detlev H. Kelm |
| Affiliation: | 1. Evolutionary Ecology Research Group, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany;2. Department of Animal Behaviour, Institute of Zoology, Freie Universit?t Berlin, Berlin, Germany;3. Department of Zoology, University of Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel;4. Estación Biológica de Do?ana (CSIC), Sevilla, Spain |
| Abstract: | Using nitrogen isotope ratio as proxy for nutrient transfer, we tracked nutrients from bat excreta to seed exocarp in Dipteryx panamensis that host bat roosts, suggesting that trees may benefit from nutrients of bat guano deposited into hollow tree trunks. |
| Keywords: | guano nutrient stable isotopes tree hollows tropics |