– 343 – Rev. Écol. (Terre Vie), vol. 61, 2006. EDGE EFFECTS ON FRUGIVOROUS AND NECTARIVOROUS BAT COMMUNITIES IN A NEOTROPICAL PRIMARY FOREST IN FRENCH GUIANA Marguerite DELAVAL1 & Pierre CHARLES-DOMINIQUE2
Deforestation occurs at an alarming rate in the lowland tropics and constitutes a major threat to global biodiversity (Bierregaard & Laurance, 1997). Worldwide Biodiversity conser-
1 Département d’Ecologie et Gestion de la Biodiversité, UMR 5176, 4 avenue du Petit Château, F-91800 Brunoy. Present address : 21, avenue St-Dominique. F-97354 Remire-Monjoly, Guyane française. E-mail : marguerite. delaval@ wanadoo. fr
2 UMR 2728 ECOFOG and UPS 656, Station des Nouragues, CNRS-Guyane, 16, avenue André Aron, F-97300 Cayenne, Guyane française.
