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Elizabeth Braun de Torrez
Researcher at Boston University
Publications - 4
Citations - 1133
Elizabeth Braun de Torrez is an academic researcher from Boston University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Predation & Acrobasis nuxvorella. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 3 publications receiving 914 citations.
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Ecosystem services provided by bats
Thomas H. Kunz,Elizabeth Braun de Torrez,Dana Marie Bauer,Tatyana A. Lobova,Theodore H. Fleming +4 more
TL;DR: Information on the ecological and economic value of ecosystem services provided by bats can be used to inform decisions regarding where and when to protect or restore bat populations and associated habitats, as well as to improve public perception of bats.
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Crop pests eaten by bats in organic pecan orchards
TL;DR: Evidence that bats prey upon crop pests is the first step in showing that bats are beneficial to pecan farmers and provides incentives for bat conservation.
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Sympatric Bat Species Prey Opportunistically on a Major Moth Pest of Pecans
TL;DR: The results highlight the need to consider multi-species assemblages and different foraging strategies when assessing pest suppression services, particularly in agroforestry or tree crops, while assessing pest consumption by bats.
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Consumption of endemic arbovirus mosquito vectors by bats in the southeastern United States
TL;DR: In this article , the authors conducted a large-scale dietary study of three bat species common to the southeastern U.S.A., Lasiurus seminolus (Seminole bat), Nycticeius humeralis (evening bat), and Myotis austroriparius (southeastern myotis), using next-generation sequencing of a 180 bp portion of cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) of mitochondrial DNA from 180 bat guano samples.