— 149 — INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION AND NICHE PARTITIONING: EXAMPLE OF A NEOTROPICAL RAINFOREST BAT COMMUNITY Marguerite DELAVAL1, Mickaël HENRY1 & Pierre CHARLES-DOMINIQUE2
Bats are of paramount importance in Neotropical rainforest ecosystems because of their abundance, diversity and ecological roles. Bats account for 50% of the Neotropical mammal species and constitute the most important order of mammals in Neotropical rain-
1 Département d’Ecologie et Gestion de la Biodiversité, UMR 5176, 4, avenue du Petit Château, F-91800 Brunoy. E-mail : marguerite. delaval@ wanadoo. fr
2 UMR 2728 ECOFOG et UPS 656, Station des Nouragues, CNRS, 6, avenue André Aron, F-97300 Cayenne, Guyane Française.
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