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Bernal Rodríguez-Herrera
Researcher at University of Costa Rica
Publications - 78
Citations - 1074
Bernal Rodríguez-Herrera is an academic researcher from University of Costa Rica. The author has contributed to research in topics: Species richness & Frugivore. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 70 publications receiving 866 citations. Previous affiliations of Bernal Rodríguez-Herrera include Museo Nacional de Costa Rica & National Autonomous University of Mexico.
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A Biodiversity Assessment of Bats (Chiroptera) in a Tropical Lowland Rainforest of Central Amazonia, Including Methodological and Conservation Considerations
Erica M. Sampaio,Elisabeth K. V. Kalko,Enrico Bernard,Bernal Rodríguez-Herrera,Charles O. Handley +4 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that the development of comprehensive inventories of key vertebrate taxa such as bats derived from a combination of several standardized sampling procedures is essential to develop meaningful, conservation-oriented plans for land-use and management of protected areas.
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Small Tent‐Roosting Bats Promote Dispersal of Large‐Seeded Plants in a Neotropical Forest
Felipe P. L. Melo,Bernal Rodríguez-Herrera,Robin L. Chazdon,Rodrigo A. Medellín,Gerardo Ceballos +4 more
TL;DR: A greater role of small frugivorous bats as dispersers of large seeds than previously thought is demonstrated, particularly in regions where populations of large-bodied seed dispersers have been reduced or extirpated by hunting.
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Frugivorous bats maintain functional habitat connectivity in agricultural landscapes but rely strongly on natural forest fragments.
Simon P. Ripperger,Elisabeth K. V. Kalko,Bernal Rodríguez-Herrera,Frieder Mayer,Marco Tschapka +4 more
TL;DR: This behavior demonstrates the potential of frugivorous bats to functionally connect fragmented areas by providing ecosystem services between natural and degraded sites, and highlights the need for conservation of natural habitat patches within agricultural landscapes that meet the roosting requirements of bats.
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Life in a mosaic landscape: anthropogenic habitat fragmentation affects genetic population structure in a frugivorous bat species
Simon P. Ripperger,Simon P. Ripperger,Marco Tschapka,Marco Tschapka,Elisabeth K. V. Kalko,Elisabeth K. V. Kalko,Bernal Rodríguez-Herrera,Frieder Mayer +7 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that bats, despite their high mobility, are not secure from genetic erosion in anthropogenically modified landscapes and the importance of considering several points in time when testing for an influence of habitat parameters as it might be decades until they are reflected by genetic diversity.
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Neotropical bats that co-habit with humans function as dead-end hosts for dengue virus.
Amanda Vicente-Santos,Andres Moreira-Soto,Andres Moreira-Soto,Claudio Soto-Garita,Luis Guillermo Chaverri,Andrea Chaves,Jan Felix Drexler,Juan Morales,Alejandro Alfaro-Alarcón,Bernal Rodríguez-Herrera,Eugenia Corrales-Aguilar +10 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that bats in these urban environments do not sustain DENV amplification, they do not have a role as reservoirs, but function as epidemiological dead end hosts for this virus.