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#WBTC2 #Land1 Do you 🀀 when you think about 🍫? Yes! But did you know that 70% of 🍫 comes from Africa and that πŸͺ² #pests can cause losses of > 400,000€ million annually? 😱 #Nature can be the solution to this πŸ‘‰ so far we found the main 🍫 pest in 18 πŸ¦‡ & 🐦 species! πŸ˜‹
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#WBTC2 #Land1 But does this #pest consumption have a significant effect on pest populations? To find out we decided to do an exclusion experiment to quantify πŸ¦‡&🐦 effect on #cacao production πŸ€” For 12 months we counted everything in 16 full tree exclosures and 16 controls 🧐
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#WBTC2 #Land1 We found out that πŸ¦‡&🐦 are suppressing almost all #arthropods groups! They do an #ecosystemservice by reducing
phytophagous πŸͺ³(like Hemiptera and Mealybug pests), but on the other hand they do a disservice by reducing predatory πŸ•·οΈ and potencial pollinators πŸͺ°πŸŒΌ
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1/5 #Deforestation is leading to increasingly #fragmented landscapes🌲
Aim: How do #bats respond to changes in local habitat quality and fragmentation of the wider landscape via investigation of 3 holistic diversity facets #taxonomic, #functional, #phylogeneticπŸ¦‡

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2/5 Data from #BDFFP in Central #Amazon πŸ‡§πŸ‡· largest & longest running ecological (+40 y/s) study of #fragmentation

β€’ Field work by: @adria_baucells @RicardoNature
β€’ When: 2011-2013
β€’ Sites: 33
β€’ Acoustic data: 281,664 calls
β€’ #Bat Species: 21 πŸ¦‡
β€’ Families: 5
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3/5 #Taxonomic, #functional & #phylogenetic metrics based on #acoustic data were related to local vegetation descriptors & landscape-scale habitat composition & configuration variables using #GLMMs.

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