The contribution of animals to element fluxes in ecosystems is little known.We therefore estimated the contribution of a common frugivorous bat species Our results demonstrate that the contribution of a single frugivorous mammal species to internal base metal cycling in a tropical ecosystem may be similarly important as bulk deposition and can have measurable effects on local soil fertility.
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