Bats limit arthropods and herbivory in a tropical forest

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Previous exclosure studies measuring the top-down control of arthropod abundance and herbivory combined the effects of birds and bats. We experimentally partitioned bird predation from bat predation in a lowland tropical forest in Panama and measured the direct effects (arthropod abundance) and indirect effects (herbivory).

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http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/320/5872/71
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04/04/2008