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Photos from the Field: Knowledge and Experience Predict Indiscriminate Bat-Killings

Carollia perspicillata is a common, fruit-eating bat across much of Latin America, but people sometimes confuse it for a vampire bat, exacerbating human-bat conflict.

J. Leighton Reid, (2016). Knowledge and Experience Predict Indiscriminate Bat-Killing Intentions among Costa Rican Men. Biotropica, 48: 394–404. doi: 10.1111/btp.12279 Human–wildlife… Read More »

Photos from the Field: Recruitment Distance and Tree Size

Photos from the Field: Recruitment Distance and Tree Size

Anna Sugiyama. (2015). Recruitment Distance from the Nearest Reproductive Conspecific Increases with Tree Size in Tropical Premontane Wet Forests. Biotropica,… Read More »

Editor’s Choice @Biotropica 47(4): Do bats fertilize their roost trees?

In tropical forests large trees, like this one at La Selva Biological Station, are important roosting sites for bats (Photo by Peter Wilton; CC BY 2.0)

I am pleased to announce the July 2015 Editor’s Choice Article: Voigt, C. C., Borissov, I. and Kelm, D. H…. Read More »

Biotropica 46(6): Editor’s Choice: Antibiotic bacteria in tropical forest soils may play a role in plant diversity

Kristen Becklund studies antibiotic-producing bacteria from tropical forest soils at the University of Minnesota. Her research was conducted in part in the Kinkel lab, which studies the role Streptomyces play in the structure and function of experimental grasslands and the use of pathogen-suppressive Streptomyces in the biological control of crop diseases in agriculture. Photo credit: Jonathan Pavlica.

The November Editor’s Choice article is a fascinating look at spatial variation in the antibiotic-producing bacteria in tropical soils, and… Read More »

2014 @Biotropica Award for Excellence in Tropical Biology & Conservation

Pardo and Small, Recipients of the 2014 Biotropica Award for Excellence in Tropical Biology & Conservation

Each year the Editorial Board of Biotropica proudly announces the winner of the Biotropica Award for Excellence in Tropical Biology… Read More »

Photos from the Field: Hammill et al. 2014

Photo by Edd Hammill

Hammill et al. 2014. Bromeliad-associated Reductions in Host Herbivory: Do Epiphytic Bromeliads Act as Commensalists or Mutualists? Biotropica. Many members of the… Read More »

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