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Acknowledgments
We thank the following funding agencies for financial support of the Seed Atlas project: National Science Foundation, NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Program, Bat Conservation International, the Beneficia Foundation, and the National Geographic Society. We are especially grateful to John D. Mitchell for his financial support and interest in our work. We are grateful to our French colleagues, Pierre Charles-Dominique, Marie-Françoise Prévost, Jean-Jacques de Granville, Bernard Hermier, and Patrick Chatelet, for their friendship and help during our trips to French Guiana to study bat/plant interaction. We are especially thankful to M.-F. Prévost, known to all of her friends as Fanchon, for sending us many fruits and DNA specimens of plants dispersed by bats. We thank Carol Gracie (cgracie@nybg.org), Marie-Françoise Prévost (mfp@caiena.cayenne.ird.fr), and Brian Keeley (bkeeley@batcon.org) for many of the color photographs of plants, Merlin Tuttle (mtuttle@batcon.org) for the bat photos. These images are their property and should not be used without their permission. We are also grateful to Frédéric Blanchard, Brian Keeley, Heather Peckham, Vanessa Hequet, and Adrian Tejedor for their help during field work and their collaboration in our bat/plant studies. We are grateful to John Janovec for helping us make the results of our work available on the Internet. |
