A biodiversity assessment of bats (Chiroptera) in a tropical lowland rainforest of Central Amazonia, including methodological and conservation considerations

Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 17-31

  Sampaio, Erica M ^a,f,g   Kalko, Elisabeth K V ^b,e,f   Bernard, Enrico ^c,g   Rodríguez Herrera, Bernal ^d,g   Handley Jr , Charles O ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d Natural History ^*  (Costa Rica)

^e SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^f DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^g INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Central Amazonia; Chiroptera; Conservation; Inventories; Mistnets; Sampling methods

Indexed keywords

CHIROPTERA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037398165     PISSN: 01650521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/snfe.38.1.17.14035     Document Type: Article

References (86)

1. Aguiar LMS, Taddei VA (1995): Workshop sobre a conservação dos morcegos Brazileiros. Chiroptera Neotrop 12: 24-30.
2. Bernard E (2001): Vertical stratification of bat communities in primary forest of Central Amazon, Brazil. J Trop Ecol 17: 115-126.
3. Bernard E, Albernaz ALKM, Magnusson WE (2001): Bat species composition in three localities in the Amazon Basin. Stud Neotrop Fauna Environm 36: 177-184.
4. Bernard E, Fenton MB (2002): Species diversity of bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) in forest fragments, primary forests, and savannas in Central Amazonia, Brazil. Can J Zool 80: 1124-1140.
5. Bierregaard RO Jr, Laurance WF, Sites JW Jr, Lynam AJ, Didham RK, Andersen M, Gascon C, Tocher MD, Smith AP, Viana VM, Lovejoy TE, Sieving KE, Kramer EA, Restrepo C, Moritz C (1997): Key priorities for the study of fragmented tropical ecosystems. In: Laurance WF, Bierregaard RO Jr, eds., Tropical Forest Remnants: Ecology, Management, and Conservation of Fragmented Communities. Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press, pp. 515-527.
6. Brosset A, Charles-Dominique P (1990): The bats from French Guyana: A taxonomic, faunistic and ecological approach. Mammalia 544: 509-560.
7. Brosset A, Charles-Dominique P, Cockle A, Cosson JF, Masson D (1996): Bat communities and deforestation in French Guyana. Can J Zool 74: 1975-1982.
8. Brussard PF (1991): The role of ecology in biological conservation. Ecol Appl 1: 6-12.
9. Bunge J, Fitzpatrick M (1993). Estimating the number of species: A review. J Am Stat Assoc 88: 364-373.
10. Carter DC (1966): A new species of Rhinophylla (Mammalia: Chiroptera; Phyllostomatidae) from South America. Proc Biol Soc Wash 79: 235-238.
11. Chao A (1984): Non-parametric estimation of the number of classes in a population. Scand J Stat 11: 265-270.
12. Chauvel A (1983): Os latossolos amarelos ílicos, argilosos dentro dos ecossistemas das bacias experimentais do INPA e da região vizinha. Acta Amazônica 12: 47-60.
13. Colwell RK, Coddington JA (1996): Estimating terrestrial biodiversity through extrapolation. In: Hawksworth DL, ed., Biodiversity: Measurement and Estimation. London, Chapman & Hall, pp. 101-118.
14. Cosson JF, Pons JM, Masson D (1999): Effects of forest fragmentation on frugivorous and nectarivorous bats in French Guyana. J Trop Ecol 154: 515-534.
15. Crespo RF, Linhart SB, Burns RJ, Mitchell GC (1972): Foraging behavior of the common vampire bat related to moonlight. J Mammal 532: 366-368.
16. Dale VH, O'Neill RV, Southworth E, Pedlowski M (1994): Modeling the effects of land management in the Brazilian settlement of Rondônia. Conserv Biol 8: 196-206.
17. Emmons LH, Feer F (1997): Neotropical Rainforest Mammals: A Field Guide. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, xvi + 307 pp.
18. Fenton MB, Acharya L, Audet D, Hickey MB, Merriman C, Obrist MK, Syme DM, Adkins B (1992): Phyllostomid bats (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) as indicators of habitat disruption in the Neotropics. Biotropica 243: 440-446.
19. Ferrari SF, Lopes MA (1992) A new species of marmoset, genus Callithrix Erxleben, 1777 (Callitrichidae, Primates) from western Brazilian Amazonia. Goeldi Zool 12: 1-13.
20. Ferreira LV, Laurance WL (1996): Effects of forest fragmentation on the mortality and damage of selected trees in Central Amazonia. Conserv Biol 113: 797-801.
21. Findley JS (1993): Bats: A Community Perspective. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, xi + 167 pp.
22. Fleming TH (1986a): Opportunism versus specialization: the evolution of feeding strategies in frugivorous bats. In: Estrada A, Fleming TH, eds. Frugivores and Seed Dispersal. Dordrecht, Dr W Junk, pp. 105-118.
23. Fleming TH (1986b): The structure of Neotropical bat communities: A preliminary analysis. Rev Chil Hist Nat 59: 135-150.
24. Fonseca GAB, Herrmann G, Leite YLR, Mittermeier RA, Rylands AB, Patton JL (1996): Lista anotada dos mamíferos do Brazil. Occas Pap Conserv Biol 4: 1-38.
25. Galetti M, Morellato LPC (1994): Diet of the fruit-eating bat Artibeus lituratus in a forest fragment in Brazil. Mammalia 58: 61-665.
26. Gardner AL (1977): Feeding habits. In: Baker RJ, Jones JK Jr, Carter DC, eds., Biology of Bats of the New World Family Phyllostomatidae, Part II, Special Publs Mus Texas Tech Univ. 13. Lubbock, pp. 293-350.
27. Gardner AL (1988): The mammals of the Parque Nacional Serrania de la Neblina. In: Brewer-Carias C, ed., Resultados de la Expedition 1983-1987, Caracas, Editorial Sucre, pp. 695-765.
28. Gascon C, Lovejoy TE (1998): Ecological impacts of forest fragmentation in Central Amazon. Zool-Anal Complex Sy 101: 273-280.
29. Gentry AHT (1990): Composition and dynamics of the Cocha Cashu 'mature' floodplain forest. In: Gentry AH, ed., Four Neotropical Rainforests. New Haven, Yale University Press, pp. 542-565.
30. Gotelli NJ, Graves GR (1996): Null Models in Ecology. Washington and London, Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 1-368.
31. Granjon L, Cosson JF, Judas J, Ringuet S (1996): Influence of tropical rainforest fragmentation on mammal communities in French Guyana: Short term effects. Acta Oecol 176: 673-684.
32. Handley CO Jr (1967): Bats of the canopy of an Amazonian forest. Atas do simposio da Biota Amazônica: 211-215.
33. Handley CO Jr (1988): Specimen preparation. In: Kunz TH, ed., Ecological and Behavioral Methods for the Study of Bats. Washington, DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 437-457.
34. Handley CO Jr, Wilson DE, Gardner AL (1991): Demography and natural history of the common fruit bat, Artibeus jamaicensis, on Barro Colorado Island, Panamá. Smith Contr Zool, Washington, DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 1-511.
35. Hood CS, Pitocchelli J (1983): Noctilio albiventris. Mammal Sp 197: 1-5.
36. Hood CS, Jones JK Jr (1984): Noctilio leporinus. Mammal Sp 216: 1-7.
37. Hooper ET, Brown JH (1968): Foraging and breeding in two sympatric species of Neotropical bats, genus Noctilio. J Mammal 49: 310-312.
38. Humphrey PS, Bridge D, Lovejoy TE (1968). A technique for mistnetting in the forest canopy. Bird-banding 39: 43-50.
39. Hutterer R, Verhaagh M, Diller J, Podlouck R (1995): An inventory of mammals observed at Panguana Biological Station, Amazonian Peru. Ecotropica 1: 3-20.
40. Kalko EKV (1997): Diversity in tropical bats. In: Ulrich H, ed., Tropical Biodiversity and Systematics. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Biodiversity and Systematics in Tropical Ecosystems, Bonn, 1994. Bonn, Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, pp. 13-43.
41. Kalko EKV (1998): Organization and diversity of tropical bat communities through space and time. Zoology 101: 281-297.
42. Kalko EKV, Handley CO Jr (2001): Neotropical bats in the canopy: Diversity, community strucuture, and implications for conservation strategies. Plant Ecol 153: 319-333.
43. Kalko EKV, Handley CO Jr, Handley D (1996a): Organization, diversity, and long-term dynamics of a Neotropical bat community. In: Cody M, Smallwood S, eds., Long-term Studies of Vertebrate Communities. Los Angeles, Academic Press: pp. 503-551.
44. Kalko EKV, Herre EA, Handley CO Jr (1996b): Relation of fig fruit characteristics to fruit-eating bats in the new and old world tropics. J Biogeogr 23: 565-576.
45. Kalko EKV, Schnitzler H-U, Kaipf I, Grinnell AD (1998): Echolocation and foraging behavior of the lesser bulldog bat, Noctilio albiventris: Preadaptations for piscivorous? Behav Ecol Sociobiol 42: 305-319.
46. nd ed. Washington, DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 137-241.
47. Korine C, Kalko EKV, Herre EA (2000): Fruit characteristics and factors affecting fruit removal in a Panamanian community of strangler figs. Oecologia 123: 560-568.
48. Kuenzi AJ, Morrison ML (1998): Detection of bats by mistnets and ultrasonic sensors. Wild Soc Bull 26: 307-311.
49. Laurance WF, Ferreira LV, Rankin-De-Merona JM, Laurance S, Hutchings RW, Lovejoy TE (1998): Effects of forest fragmentation on recruitment patterns in Amazonian tree communities. Conserv Biol 122: 460-464.
50. Lee TE Jr, Hoofer SR, Van Den Busche RA (2002): Molecular phylogenetics and taxonomic revision of the genus Tonatia (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae). J Mammal 83: 49-57.
51. Lim BK, Engstrom MD (2001): Species diversity of bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) in Iwokrama Forest, Guyana, and the Guyanan subregion: Implications for conservation. Biodiv Conserv 10: 613-657.
52. Longino JT, Colwell RK (1997): Biodiversity assessment using structured inventory: Capturing the ant fauna of a tropical rain forest. Ecol Appl 74: 1263-1277.
53. Lovejoy TE, Bierregaard RO Jr (1990): Central Amazonian forests and the minimum critical size of ecosystem Project. In: Gentry AH, ed., Four Neotropical Rainforests. New Haven, Yale University Press, pp. 60-71.
54. Marinho-Filho JS (1991): The coexistence of two frugivorous bat species and the phenology of their food plants in Brazil. J Trop Ecol 7: 59-67.
55. Marinho-Filho JS, Sazima I (1998): Brazilian bats and conservation biology: A first survey. In: Kunz THP, Racey PA, eds., Bat Biology and Conservation. Washington, DC and London, Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 342-353.
56. Masson D, Cosson JF (1992): Cyttarops alecto (Emballonuridae) et Lasiurus castaneus (Vespertilionidae), deux chiropteres nouveaux pour la Guyane française. Mammalia 56: 475-478.
57. McIntyre S (1992): Risks associated with the setting of conservation priorities from rare plant species list. Biol Conserv 60: 31-37.
58. McNab BK (1971): The structure of tropical bat faunas. Ecology 522: 352-358.
59. Mittermeier RA, Schwarz M, Ayres JM (1992): A new species of marmoset, genus Callithrix Erxleben, 1777 (Callitrichidae, Primates) from the Rio Maués region, state of Amazonas, Central Brazilian Amazônia. Goeldi Zool 14: 1-17.
60. Mok WY, Wilson DE, Racey LA, Luizão RCC (1982): Lista atualizada de quirópteros da Amazônia Brazileira. Acta Amazônica 124: 817-823.
61. Moreno CE, Halffter G (2000): Assessing the efficiency of biodiversity inventories using species accumulations curves for a bat fauna. J Appl Ecol 37: 149-158.
62. Morrison DW (1978): Lunar phobia in a Neotropical fruit bat Artibeus jamaicensis. Anim Behav 263: 852-855.
63. O'Farrell MJ, Gannon WL (1999): A comparison of acoustic versus capture techniques for the inventory of bats. J Mammal 80: 24-30.
64. O'Farrell MJ, Miller BW (1999): A new examination of echolocation calls of some Neotropical bats (Emballonuridae and Mormoopidae). J Mammal 78: 954-963.
65. Prance GT (1990): The floristic composition of forests of Central Amazonian Brazil. In: Gentry AH, ed., Four Neotropical Rainforests. New Haven, Yale University Press, pp. 112-141.
66. Queiroz HL (1992): A new species of capuchin monkey, genus Cebus Erxleben, 1777 (Cebidae: Primates) from eastern Brazilian Amazonia. Goeldi Zool 15: 1-13.
67. Rankin-De-Merona JM, Prance GT, Hutchings RW, Silva MF, Rodrigues WA, Uehling ME (1992): Preliminary results of a large-scale tree inventory of lowland rain forest in the Central Amazon. Acta Amazônica 22: 493-534.
68. dos Reis NR (1984): Estrutura da comunidade de morcegos da região de Manaus, Amazonas. Rev Bras Biol 443: 247-254.
69. dos Reis NR, Guillaumet J-L (1983): Les Chauves-souris frugivoures de la region de Manaus et leur rôle dans la dissemination des especes vegetales. Rev Ecol-Terre Vie 38: 1983.
70. dos Reis NR, Peracchi AL (1987): Quirópteros da região de Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil (Mammalia, Chiroptera). Bol Mus Emilio Goeldi Ser Zool 32: 161-182.
71. dos Reis NR, Schubart HOR (1979): Notas preliminares sobre os morcegos do Parque Nacional da Amazonia médio Tapajos. Acta Amazônica 93: 507-515.
72. Root RB (1967): The niche exploitation pattern of the blue-gray gnatcatcher. Ecol Monogr 37: 317-350.
73. van Roosmalen MGM, van Roosmalen T, Mittermeier RA, de Fonseca GAB (1998): A new and distinctive species of marmoset (Callitrichidae; Primates), from the lower Rio Aripuanã, State of Amazonas, Central Brazilian Amazonia. Goeldi Zool 22: 1-27.
74. Scariot A (1999): Forest fragmentation: Effects on palm diversity in Central Amazonia. J Ecol 87: 66-76.
75. Schnitzler HU, Kalko EKV (1998): How echolocating bats search and find food. In: Kunz TA, Racey PA, eds., Bat Biology and Conservation. Washington, DC and London, Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 183-204.
76. Schnitzler HU, Kalko EKV, Kaipf I, Grinnell AD (1994): Fishing and echolocation behavior of the greater bulldog bat, Noctilio leporinus, in the field. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 35: 327-345.
77. Simmons NB, Handley CO Jr (1998): A revision of Centronycteris Gray (Chiroptera: Emballonuridae) with notes on natural history. Am Mus Nov 3239: 1-28.
78. Simmons NB, Voss RS (1998): The mammals of Paracou, French Guyana: A Neotropical lowland rainforest fauna. Part 1. Bats. Bull Am Mus Nat Hist 237: 1-219.
79. Terborgh J, Winter B (1980): Somes causes of extinction. In: Soulé ME, Wilcox BA, eds., Conservation Biology: an Evolutionary-Ecological Perspective. Sunderland, MA, Sinauer Associates, pp. 119-133.
80. Thies W, Kalko EKV, Schnitzler HU (1998): The roles of echolocation and olfaction in two Neotropical fruit-eating bats, Carollia perspicillata and C. castanea, feeding on Piper. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 42: 397-402.
81. Uieda W (1980): Occorrência de Carollia castanea na Amazônia Brazileira (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae). Acta Amazônica 104: 936-938.
82. Uieda W (1992): Feeding activity period and types of prey of the vampire bats (Phyllostomidae) in southeastern Brazil. Rev Bras Biol 52: 563-573
83. Voss RS, Emmons LH (1996): Mammalian diversity in Neotropical lowland rainforests: a preliminary assessment. Bull Am Mus Nat Hist 230: 1-115.
84. Whitmore TC (1997): Tropical forest disturbance, disappearance and species loss. In: Laurance WF, Bierregaard RO Jr, eds., Tropical Forest Remnants. Ecology, Management, and Conservation of Fragmented Communities. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, pp. 3-13.
85. Willig MR (1986): Bat community structure in South America: A tenacious chimera. Rev Chil Hist Nat 59: 151-168.
86. Wilson DE (1996): Neotropical bats: A checklist with conservation status. In: Gibson AC, ed., Neotropical Biodiversity and Conservation. Los Angeles, California, University of California. pp. 167-177.