Ensemble composition and activity levels of insectivorous bats in response to management intensification in coffee agroforestry systems

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Williams Guillén, Kimberly ^a,b   Perfecto, Ivette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON BOTHELL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGROECOSYSTEM; AGROFORESTRY; ARTICLE; BAT; BIODIVERSITY; COFFEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEEDING; FOREST FRAGMENTATION; INSECTIVORE; INSECTIVORROUS BAT; LAND USE; MEXICO; NONHUMAN; PLANT TAXONOMY; PLANTATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; TREE; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; INSECTIVORA; METHODOLOGY;

MAMMALIA; PHYLLOSTOMIDAE;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CHIROPTERA; COFFEE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; INSECTIVORA;

EID: 79551550017     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016502     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Laurance WF (2008) Theory meets reality: how habitat fragmentation research has transcended island biogeographic theory. Biological Conservation 141: 1731-1744.
2. Ricketts TH (2001) The matrix matters: effective isolation in fragmented landscapes. American Naturalist 158: 87-99.
3. Moguel P, Toledo VM (1999) Biodiversity conservation in traditional coffee systems of Mexico. Conservation Biology 13: 11-21.
4. Perfecto I, Rice RA, Greenberg R, Van der Voort ME (1996) Shade coffee: a disappearing refuge for biodiversity. BioScience 46: 598-608.
5. Perfecto I, Ambrecht I (2003) The coffee agroecosystem in the Neotropics: combining ecological and economic goals. In: Vandermeer J, ed. Tropical Agroecosystems. New York: CRC Press. pp 157-192.
6. Donald PF (2004) Biodiversity impacts of some agricultural commodity production systems. Conservation Biology 18: 17-37.
7. Somarriba E, Harvey CA, Samper M, Anthony F, González J, et al. (2004) Biodiversity conservation in Neotropical coffee (Coffea arabica) plantations. In: Schroth G, da Fonseca GAB, Harvey CA, Gascon C, Vasconcelos HL, et al., eds. Agroforestry and Biodiversity Conservation in Tropical Landscapes. Washington D.C.: Island Press. pp 198-226.
8. Estrada A, Coates-Estrada R (2002) Bats in continuous forest, forest fragments and in an agricultural mosaic habitat-island at Los Tuxtlas, Mexico. Biological Conservation 103: 237-245.
9. Cruz-Lara LE, Lorenzo C, Soto L, Naranjo E, Ramírez-Marcial N (2004) Diversidad de mamíferos en cafetales y selva mediana de las canadas de la Selva Lacandona, Chiapas, México. Acta Zoológica Mexicana 20: 63-81.
10. Reid FA (1997) A Field Guide to the Mammals of Central America and Southeast Mexico. New York: Oxford University Press.
11. Cosson JF, Pons JM, Masson D (1999) Effects of forest fragmentation on frugivorous and nectarivorous bats in French Guiana. Journal of Tropical Ecology 15: 515-534.
12. Fenton MB, Acharya L, Audet D, Hickey MBC, Merriman C, et al. (1992) Phyllostomid bats (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) as indicators of habitat disruption in the Neotropics. Biotropica 24: 440-446.
13. Medellin RA, Equihua M, Amin MA (2000) Bat diversity and abundance as indicators of disturbance in Neotropical rainforests. Conservation Biology 14: 1666-1675.
14. Wilson DE, Ascorra CF, Solari TS (1996) Bats as indicators of habitat disturbance. In: Wilson DE, Sandoval A, eds. Manu, the Biodiversity of Southern Peru. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Instutution. pp 613-625.
15. MacSwiney MC, Clarke FM, Racey PA (2008) What you see is not what you get: the role of ultrasonic detectors in increasing inventory completeness in Neotropical bat assemblages. Journal of Applied Ecology 45: 1364-1371.
16. Schnitzler HU, Kalko EKV (2001) Echolocation by insect-eating bats. Bioscience 51: 557-569.
17. O'Farrell MJ, Miller BW (1999) Use of vocal signatures for the inventory of freeflying Neotropical bats. Biotropica 31: 507-516.
18. Estrada A, Jiménez A, Rivera A, Fuentes E (2004) General bat activity measured with an ultrasound detector in a fragmented tropical landscape in Los Tuxtlas, Mexico. Animal Biodiversity and Conservation 27: 1-9.
19. MacSwiney MC, Vilchis P, Clarke FM, Racey PA (2007) The importance of cenotes in conserving bat assemblages in the Yucatan, Mexico. Biological Conservation 136: 499-509.
20. Jung K, Kalko EKV (2010) Where forest meets urbanization: foraging plasticity of aerial insectivorous bats in an anthropogenically altered environment. Journal of Mammalogy 91: 144-153.
21. Estrada-Villegas S, Meyer CFJ, Kalko EKV (2010) Effects of tropical forest fragmentation on aerial insectivorous bats in a land-bridge island system. Biological Conservation 143: 597-608.
22. Perfecto I, Vandermeer J (2008) Biodiversity conservation in tropical agroecosystems. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1134: 173-200.
23. Cleveland CJ, Betke M, Federico P, Frank JD, Hallam TG, et al. (2006) Economic value of the pest control service provided by Brazilian free-tailed bats in south-central Texas. Frontiers In Ecology and the Environment 5: 238-243.
24. Williams-Guillén K, Perfecto I, Vandermeer J (2008) Bats limit insects in a Neotropical agroforestry system. Science 320: 70.
25. Williams-Guillén K, Perfecto I (2010) Effects of agricultural intensification on the assemblage of leaf-nosed bats (Phyllostomidae) in a coffee landscape in Chiapas, Mexico. Biotropica 42: 605-613.
26. García Estrada C, Damon A, Sánchez Hernández C, Soto Pinto L, Ibarra-Núñez G (2006) Bat diversity in montane rainforest and shaded coffee under different management regimes in southeastern Chiapas, Mexico. Biological Conservation 132: 351-361.
27. Law B, Chidel M (2002) Tracks and riparian zones facilitate the use of Australian regrowth forest by insectivorous bats. Journal of Applied Ecology 39: 605-617.
28. Kelm DH, Wiesner KH, von Helversen O (2008) Effects of artificial roosts for frugivorous bats on seed dispersal in a Neotropical forest pasture mosaic. Conservation Biology 22: 733-741.
29. Struebig MJ, Kingston T, Zubaid A, Mohd-Adnan A, Rossiter SJ (2008) Conservation value of forest fragments to Paleotropical bats. Biological Conservation 141: 2112-2126.
30. Kalko EKV (1998) Organization and diversity of tropical bat communities through space and time. Zoology 101: 281-297.
31. Benton TG, Vickery JA, Wilson JD (2003) Farmland biodiversity: is habitat heterogeneity the key? Trends In Ecology & Evolution 18: 182-188.
32. Mooney KA, Gruner DS, Barber NA, Van Bael SA, Phillpott S, et al. (2010) Interactions among predators and the cascading effects of vertebrate insectivores on arthropod communities and plants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107: 7335-7340.
33. Fischer J, Brosi B, Daily GC, Ehrlich PR, Goldman R, et al. (2008) Should agricultural policies encourage land sparing or wildlife-friendly farming? Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 6: 380-385.
34. Wickramasinghe LP, Harris S, Jones G, Vaughan N (2003) Bat activity and species richness on organic and conventional farms: impact of agricultural intensification. Journal of Applied Ecology 40: 984-993.
35. Fenton MB (2000) Choosing the 'correct' bat detector. Acta Chiropterologica 2: 215-224.
36. Corben C (2004) Zero-crossings analysis for bat identification: an overview. In: Brigham RM, Kalko EKV, Jones G, Parsons S, Limpens HJGA, eds. Bat Echolocation Research: Tools, Techniques, and Analysis. Austin, Texas: Bat Conservation International. pp 95-107.
37. Fenton MB (1970) A technique for monitoring bat activity with results obtained from different environments in southern Ontario. Canadian Journal of Zoology 48: 847-851.
38. Miller BW (2001) A method for determining relative activity of free flying bats using a new activity index for acoustic monitoring. Acta Chiropterologica 3: 93-105.
39. O'Farrell MJ, Miller BW, Gannon WL (1999) Qualitative identification of freeflying bats using the Anabat detector. Journal of Mammalogy 80: 11-23.
40. Jung K, Kalko EKV, von Helversen O (2007) Echolocation calls in Central American emballonurid bats: signal design and call frequency alternation. Journal of Zoology 272: 125-137.
41. Miller BW (2003) Community Ecology of the Non-Phyllostomid Bats of Northwestern Belize, with a Landscape Level Assessment of the Bats of Belize [Ph.D.]. Canterbury: University of Kent.
42. Kunz TH, Tidelmann CR, Richards GC (1996) Small volant mammals. In: Wilson DE, Cole FR, Nichols JD, Rudran R, Foster MS, eds. Measuring and Monitoring Biological Diversity: Standard Methods for Mammals. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Press. pp 122-146.
43. Willig MR, Gannon MR (1996) Mammals. In: Reagan DR, Waide RB, eds. The Food Web of a Tropical Rain Forest. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp 399-431.
44. Colwell RK (2005) EstimateS: Statistical estimation of species richness and shared species from samples. 8.1 ed: http://purl.oclc.org/estimates.
45. Chazdon RL, Colwell RK, Denslow JS, Guariguata MR (1998) Statistical methods for estimating species richness of woody regeneration in primary and secondary rain forests of northeastern Costa Rica. In: Dallmeier F, Comiskey JA, eds. Forest Biodiversity Research, Monitoring and Modeling: Conceptual Background and Old World Case Studies. Paris: UNESCO. pp 285-309.
46. Moreno CE, Halffter G (2000) Asessing the completeness of bat biodiversity inventories using species accumulation curves. Journal of Applied Ecology 37: 149-158.
47. Clarke KR, Warwick RM (2001) Change in Marine Communities: An Approach to Statistical Analysis and Interpretation. Plymouth: Plymouth Marine Laboratory.
48. Cameron AC, Trivedi PK (1998) Regression Analysis of Count Data. New York: Cambridge University Press.
49. Rydell J, Arita HT, Santos M, Granados J (2002) Acoustic identification of insectivorous bats (order Chiroptera) of Yucatan, Mexico. Journal of Zoology 257: 27-36.
50. Siemers BM, Kalko EKV, Schnitzler HU (2001) Echolocation behavior and signal plasticity in the Neotropical bat Myotis nigricans (Schinz, 1821) (Vespertilionidae): a convergent case with European species of Pipistrellus? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 50: 317-328.