BIBLIOGRAPHY

Guides

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Bat sites

Brazilian Society for the Study of Chiropterans: http://www.sbeq.org

Bat Conservation International: http://www.batcon.org

Bat/Plant Interactions in the Neotropics: http://www.nybg.org/botany/tlobova/mori/batsplants/introduction/intro_frameset.htm

Instituto Pasteur, Morcegos: http://www.pasteur.saude.sp.gov.br/morcego/morcego_01.htm

Instituto Biológico, Morcegos: http://www.geocities.com/~esabio/morcego/morcegos.htm

Wikipédia, Morcego: http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morcego

Wikipedia, Bat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat

Basically Bats: http://www.basicallybats.org/

The Bat Conservation Trust: http://www.bats.org.uk/

AMNH, Chiroptera: http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Chiroptera&contgroup=Eutheria

ADW, Chiroptera: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Chiroptera.html

Lubee Bat Conservancy: http://www.lubee.org/

Sydney Bats: http://www.sydneybats.org.au/cms/

Barbastella: http://www.barbastella.org/

Fledermauskunde: http://www.fledermauskunde.de/

Noctilio: http://www.noctilio.com/

Projeto Pró-Morcegos: http://www.promorcegos.org/

Projeto Morcegos Brasileiros: http://www.morcegosbrasileiros.com.br/

 

The books cited below may be bought in different online bookstores, especially:

Amazon.com

NHBS

 

Important books about bats

Altringham JD. 1998. Bats: biology and behaviour. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Dobat K, Holle TP. 1985. Blüten und Fledermäuse: Bestäubung durch Fledermäuse und Flughunde (Chiropterophilie). Frankfurt am Main: W. Kramer & Co. Druckerei.

Bredt A. 1996. Morcegos em áreas urbanas e rurais: manual de manejo e controle. Brasília: Fundação Nacional de Saúde.

Fenton MB. 1985. Communication in the Chiroptera. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Findley JS. 1995. Bats: a community perspective. Cambridge: Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge.

Fleming TH. 1988. The short-tailed fruit bat: a study in plant-animal interactions. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Kunz TH. 1982. Ecology of bats. New York: Plenum Press.

Kunz TH, Racey PA. 1999. Bat biology and conservation. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Kunz TH, Fenton MB. 2003. Bat ecology. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Neuweiler G. 1993. Biologie der Fledermäuse. Stuttgart: Georg Thieme Verlag.

Nowak RM. 1994. Walker`s bats of the world. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Reis NR, Peracchi AL, Pedro WA, Lima IP 2007. Morcegos do Brasil. Londrina: Editora da Universidade Estadual de Londrina.

Richarz K, Limbruner A. 1993. The world of bats. Neptune City: TFH Publications.

 

General books on mammals and their food-plants

Reis NR, Peracchi AL, Pedro WA, Lima IP. 2006. Mamíferos do brasil. Londrina: Editora da Universidade Estadual de Londrina.

Dyer LA, Palmer ADN. 2004. Piper: a model genus for studies of phytochemistry, ecology, and evolution. New York: Cluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers.

Barroso GM, Amorim MP, Peixoto AL, Ichaso CLF. 1999. Frutos e sementes: morfologia aplicada à sistemática de dicotiledôneas. Viçosa: Editora da Universidade Federal de Viçosa.

Lorenzzi H. 2006. Frutas brasileiras e exóticas cultivadas: (de consumo in natura). Nova Odessa: Plantarum.

Wilson DE, Reeder DM. 2005. Mammal species of the world: a taxonomic and geographic reference (3rd ed). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2.142 pp. (available online!)

 

Science popularization articles on bats

Bernard E. 2003. Ecos na escuridão. Ciência Hoje 32(190): 14-20.

Bernard E. 2005. Morcegos vampiros: sangue, raiva e preconceito. Ciência Hoje 36(214): 44-49.

Mello MAR. 2002. Morcegos gostam de pimentas. Ciência Hoje 32(189): 74-76.

Mello MAR. 2007. Morcegos e frutos: interação que gera florestas. Ciência Hoje 41(241): 30-35.

 

Scientific search engines

Thomson Scientific (WoS, JCR)

Scopus

Scirus

Periódicos da CAPES

Scielo

Google Scholar

Google Books

 

Scientific journals on bats and other mammals

Journal of Mammalogy

Mammalian Species

Acta Chiropterologica

Mammalian Biology

Acta Theriologica

Mammalia

Bat Research News

Chiroptera Neotropical

Mastozoologia Neotropical

Myotis

 

Sites on mutualism and coevolution:

Pedro Jordano

Paulo R. Guimarães Jr.

John N. Thompson

Jordi Bascompte

Mauro Galleti

Theodore Fleming

Elisabeth Kalko

Frubase

Bat-Plant Databases

Neofrug

Interaction Web Database

Fruit and Seed Dispersal

Fig-eating by Vertebrate Frugivores

Wikipedia: Biological Dispersal

Seed Dispersal

Seed Dispersal

Biology of Plants: Seed Dispersal

 

Scientific sites about other subjects:

Daniel Loebmann - science and photography.

Daniela Takiya - leafhoppers (Homoptera).

 

Translations:

 

Rationalism, skepticism and freethinking:

Richard Dawkins Website

Projeto Ockham

Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster