Quantifying the damage caused by fruit bats to backyard lychee trees in Mauritius and evaluating the benefits of protective netting

• Simon Tollington ,

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

  * E-mail: Simon.Tollington@gmail.com

  Affiliations North of England Zoological Society, Chester Zoo, Chester, United Kingdom, Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2450-7255

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• Zainal Kareemun,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Mauritian Wildlife Foundation, Vacoas, Mauritius

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• Arlaine Augustin,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Mauritian Wildlife Foundation, Vacoas, Mauritius

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• Kunal Lallchand,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Mauritian Wildlife Foundation, Vacoas, Mauritius

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• Vikash Tatayah,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Mauritian Wildlife Foundation, Vacoas, Mauritius

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• Alexandra Zimmermann

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations North of England Zoological Society, Chester Zoo, Chester, United Kingdom, Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Department of Zoology, Recanati-Kaplan Centre, University of Oxford, Tubney, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

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