Demography and Natural History of the Common Fruit Bat, 'Artibeus jamaicensis' onBarro Colorado Island, Panama

摘要

Bats were marked and monitored on Barro Colorado Island, Panama, to studyseasonal and annual variation in distribution, abundance, and natural history from 1975 through 1980. Data gathered advances one's knowledge about flocking; abundance; feeding strategies; social behavior; species richness; population structure and stability; age and sex ratios; life expectancy and longevity; nightly, seasonal, and annual movements; synchrony within and between species in reproductive activity; timing of reproductive cycles; survival and dispersal of recruits; intra-and inter-specific relationships; and day and night roost selection.