Quantitative evaluation of individual food intake by insectivorous vespertilionid bats (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae)
Insectivorous bats provide important ecosystem services, especially by suppressing and controlling the insects’ biomass. To empirically quantify the number of insects consumed by European vespertilionid bats per night, we estimated their ratio of dry mass of feces to mass of consumed insects. This s...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Company of Biologists
2021-06-01
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| Series: | Biology Open |
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| Online Access: | http://bio.biologists.org/content/10/6/bio058511 |