Vanessa A. Mata

TL;DR: The results imply that M. schreibersii might be a valuable asset for biological pest suppression in a variety of agricultural productions and highlight the dynamic interplay between wildlife and agricultural systems.

TL;DR: Although the host generalist Plasmodium SGS1 was over three times more abundant than other widespread lineages, both host specialists and generalists were successful in colonizing all study regions and achieved high overall prevalence.

TL;DR: This study provides the first example of gender-related dietary variation in bats, illustrating the value of novel molecular tools for revealing intraspecific variation in food resource use in bats and other insectivores.

TL;DR: It is found that diet diversity estimates increased steadily with the number of pellets analysed per individual, with seven pellets required to detect ~80% of prey species, and most variation in diet composition was associated with differences among individual bats, followed by pellets per individual and PCRs per pellet.

TL;DR: Integration of multi‐marker data provided far more detailed dietary information than any single marker and estimated higher frequencies of occurrence of all taxa, showing the value of integrating data from multiple, taxonomically overlapping markers in an example dietary data set.