Bats as ecosystem engineers in iron ore caves in the Carajás National Forest, Brazilian Amazonia

• Luis B. Piló †,

  † Deceased.

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departamento de Zoologia, Laboratório de Ciência Aplicada à Conservação da Biodiversidade, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil

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• Allan Calux,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Carstografica–Karst Applied Research Centre, Campinas, SP, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8357-0700

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• Rafael Scherer,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Grupo Espeleológico de Marabá, Marabá, PA, Brazil

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• Enrico Bernard

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: enrico.bernard@ufpe.br

  Affiliation Departamento de Zoologia, Laboratório de Ciência Aplicada à Conservação da Biodiversidade, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2304-1978

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