hispaniola is another name for the caribbean islands.
hispaniola is another name for the caribbean islands.
what is another name for the caribbean islands?
hispaniola
the jamaican fig-eating bat likely arrived on the island of jamaica through a dispersal event that occurred towards the late miocene epoch. the most supported hypothesis is that its ancestors radiated towards the caribbean islands from central america and northern south america. in addition, the stenodermatinae have been shown to be the only strictly frugivorous bat radiation to the caribbean islands. the dispersal scenario means that extant jamaican fig-eating bats aren't the descendants of a single common individual ancestor bat, but instead are the relatives of many predecessor bats that took part in multiple divergence events. due to a substantial decline in sea level during the late miocene epoch, the island of jamaica reemerged. this drop in sea level brought formerly distant landmasses closer to one another, which fostered and facilitated the dispersal events that led to the ancestral bats reaching jamaica during the early pliocene epoch. furthermore, extant bats in jamaica are particularly susceptible to dehydration and starvation, making a dispersal event highly unlikely without the aforementioned geological aid. the ancestor of all extant stenodermatinae – "ariteus flavescens" belongs to this subfamily – originated in south america before radiating to the caribbean islands. by the early pliocene, bat communities in the caribbean islands, including jamaica, were well established. it is imperative to note that many different families of bats were, also, being exchanged between the caribbean islands and the mainland, with groups leaving both places. a metacommunity is a collaboration between different ecological communities, which are distinct from one another by their site locations and by having their own species compositions. oftentimes, but not necessarily, communities that comprise a metacommunity are linked to one another by dispersal. research has revealed that metacommunity structure in caribbean bats is not greatly impacted by endemic bat species, like the jamaican fig-eating bat. instead, caribbean bat metacommunities, as well as bat species ranges, are affected by primary sources of colonization, particularly their number and geographical arrangement.
jamaican fig-eating bat
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