A comparison of nutritional value of native and alien food plants for a critically endangered island flying-fox

Investigation into the utility of flying foxes as bioindicators for environmental metal pollution reveals evidence of diminished lead but significant cadmium exposure.

(2020) Laura A. Pulscher et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Evidence of chronic cadmium exposure identified in the critically endangered Christmas Island flying-fox (Pteropus natalis)

(2020) Laura A. Pulscher et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Iron storage disease (hemochromatosis) and hepcidin response to iron load in two species of pteropodid fruit bats relative to the common vampire bat

(2018) Iga M. Stasiak et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY B-BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY

Can we protect island flying foxes?

(2017) Christian E. Vincenot et al.   SCIENCE

Nutritional content of bat-consumed fruits in a forest fragment in Southern Brazil

(2016) C. B. Batista et al.   BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF BIOLOGY

A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY OF THE LESIONS ASSOCIATED WITH IRON STORAGE DISEASE IN CAPTIVE EGYPTIAN FRUIT BATS (ROUSETTUS AEGYPTIACUS)

(2016) Angelique M. Leone et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOO AND WILDLIFE MEDICINE

Bats as bioindicators of heavy metal pollution: history and prospect

(2015) Jan Zukal et al.   MAMMALIAN BIOLOGY

An Island-Wide Monitoring Program Demonstrates Decline in Reporting Rate for the Christmas Island Flying-FoxPteropus melanotus natalis

(2014) John C. Z. Woinarski et al.   ACTA CHIROPTEROLOGICA

Deliberate Insectivory by the Fruit BatPteropus poliocephalusby Aerial Hunting

(2011) Simon Clulow et al.   ACTA CHIROPTEROLOGICA

Fruit bats (Pteropodidae) fuel their metabolism rapidly and directly with exogenous sugars

(2010) O. Amitai et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Wider spectrum of fruit traits in invasive than native floras may increase the vulnerability of oceanic islands to plant invasions

(2009) Christoph Kueffer et al.   OIKOS

Effect of tannic acid on iron absorption in straw-colored fruit bats (Eidolon helvum)

(2009) Shana R. Lavin et al.   ZOO BIOLOGY