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Grant awarded to study bat diet in Jamaica

10 October 2011

Elizabeth Clare (School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol), Brock Fenton (Canada) and Wieslaw Bogdanowicz (Poland) have been awarded a grant from the Polish Academy of Sciences entitled “Shifting Biotas: the changing role of bats in seed dispersal and insect consumption on the Island of Jamaica”.

Elizabeth Clare (School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol), Brock Fenton (Canada) and Wieslaw Bogdanowicz (Poland) have been awarded a grant from the Polish Academy of Sciences entitled “Shifting Biotas: the changing role of bats in seed dispersal and insect consumption on the Island of Jamaica”. This project will investigate the role of bats in current and past ecosystems as recorded by deposited guano in caves, particularly in light of changing anthropogenic influences. This is a multi-disciplinary project involving field ecology, morphology, high-throughput sequencing, bio-informatics, stable isotope analysis and carbon 14 dating.

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