The perils of picky eating: dietary breadth is related to extinction risk in insectivorous bats.

Several recent papers evaluate the relationship between ecological characteristics and extinction risk in bats. These studies report that extinction risk is negatively related to geographic range size and positively related to habitat specialization. Here, we evaluate the hypothesis that extinction...

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Main Authors: Justin G Boyles, Jonathan J Storm
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-07-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1914379?pdf=render