Pressures from anthropogenic disturbances have triggered a wealth of studies focusing on
the assessment and mitigation of the negative impacts of these disturbances on inter and …

Background Understanding the interactions between bat flies and host bats offer us
fundamental insights into the coevolutionary and ecological processes in host-parasite …

Bats and bat flies are intimately associated and are relevant models to study the effects of
anthropogenic impacts when bats are highly distributed in urban environments. The lack of …

Traditionally, most studies have described the organization of host–parasite interaction
networks by considering only few host groups at limited geographical extents. However, host …

Recently, network approaches have gained increasing popularity in studies of species
interactions. These analyses provide important information about structural and functional …

Caves are very important roosts for bats. Neotropical countries, like Brazil, harbor both high
bat species richness and abundance of underground cavities. The Caatinga drylands in …

Patterns of specialization and the structure of interactions between bats and ectoparasitic
flies have been studied mostly on non-urban environments and at local scales. Thus, how …

Bats are the second‐most diverse group of mammals in the world, and bat flies are their
main parasites. However, significant knowledge gaps remain regarding these antagonistic …

Ecological networks represent the energy flow and interactions among the species of an
ecological community. Streblidae is a family of bloodsucking flies specialized in parasitizing …

The study of parasites and their distributions is an important tool to understand the problems
related to population dynamics and the evolution of the interactions between parasites and …