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Bats reduce insect density and defoliation in temperate forests: An exclusion experiment
Bats suppress insect populations in agricultural ecosystems, yet the question of whether bats initiate trophic cascades in forests is mainly unexplored. We used a field experiment to test the hypothesis that insectivorous bats reduce defoliation through the top‐down suppression of forest‐defoliating...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
2022
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10078224/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36310413 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3903 |