The heterogeneity of Caatinga biome: an overview of the bat fauna

Carvalho-Neto, Francisco Geraldo de; Silva, Jackson Roberto da; Santos, Neide; Rohde, Cláudia; Garcia, Ana Cristina Lauer; Montes, Martín Alejandro

doi:10.1515/mammalia-2015-0046

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“…The species composition and abundance patterns are consistent with the results of Falcão et al (2005), and the predominance of phyllostomids is typical of the Neotropical region in general (Humphrey & Bonaccorso 1979;Fenton et al 1992;Kalko 1998), and of the Caatinga biome, in particular, where more than half the species are members of this family (Silva & Nascimento 2008;Carvalho-Neto et al 2016).…”

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Bats (Mammalia, Chiroptera) from an area of Caatinga in southwestern Bahia, Brazil

Soares¹,

Rocha²,

Ferrari

et al. 2018

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Morcegos (Mammalia, Chiroptera) de uma área de Caatinga do sudoeste da Bahia, Brasil Resumo: O presente estudo fornece um inventário das espécies de morcegos capturados no município de Caetité, no sudoeste da Bahia, Brasil. No total, foram capturados 68 indivíduos de morcegos, pertencentes a nove espécies e três famílias. A riqueza de espécies estimada para a área através do estimador Jackknife 1, foi 9.9. Os morcegos filostomidaeos foram os mais abundantes, e a espécie Carollia perspicillata (Linnaeus, 1758) foi a dominante. Nossos resultados são consistentes com estudos anteriores realizados na Bahia e no bioma Caatinga, fornecendo dados sobre a estrutura local da comunidade de morcegos. Além disso, destaca a importância de inventários rápidos para compreender a diversidade e distribuição da fauna de morcegos.Palavras chave: Assembléia de morcegos, Caatinga, Caetité, inventário rápido.Abstract: The present study provides an inventory of the bat species recorded in the municipality of Caetité, in southwestern Bahia, Brazil. Sixty-eight individuals were captured, belonging to nine species and three families. The Jackknife 1 procedure estimated a species richness of 9.9. The phyllostomid bats were the most abundant, and Carollia perspicillata (Linnaeus, 1758) was captured most frequently. Our results are consistent with previous studies conducted in Bahia and the Caatinga, providing data on the local bat community structure. It also highlights the importance of rapid inventories for the understanding of the diversity and distribution of the bat fauna.

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Bats (Mammalia, Chiroptera) from an area of Caatinga in southwestern Bahia, Brazil

Soares¹,

Rocha²,

Ferrari

et al. 2018

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“…Our study, and several others (e.g. Silva et al 2003;Leal et al 2005;Bernard et al 2011, Lapenta and Bueno 2015Carvalho-Neto et al 2017, 2018 highlight the importance of creating new protected areas in still so poorly known Caatinga biome in order to conserve and restore the habitat remnants, and also increase the connectivity of the protected areas.…”

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“…A brief survey of bats at their roosts allowed to the first record of the species Saccopteryx leptura for the Bahia state (see Peracchi and Nogueira 2007, Tavares et al 2008, Lapenta and Bueno 2015, Carvalho-Neto et al 2017, and to the record of Glossophaga soricina in a crystal mine, which has been already reported in other parts of its distribution (Alvarez et al 1991).…”

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“…According to Bernard et al (2011) the Caatinga harbors one of the two poorest known bat fauna within Brazil, as less than 10% of its extension has been minimally surveyed. To date at least 82 species of bats were recorded for the Caatinga biome, including the endemic genus and species Xeronycteris vieirai Ditchfield 2005, Paglia et al 2012;Moratelli and Dias 2015;Feijó et al 2015 a,b;Rocha et al 2015, 2018, Carvalho-Neto et al 2017.…”

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Bats of RPPN Pé de Serra, a reserve of Caatinga in the northeastern Brazil

Falcão¹

2020

Rev. Nordestina Biol.

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Morcegos da RPPN Pé de Serra, uma reserva da Caatinga no nordeste do Brasil. A Caatinga é o bioma menos protegido do Brasil, e uma grande parte de sua área total está localizada no estado da Bahia, nordeste brasileiro. Inventários de mamíferos na área da Caatinga são esparsos, e o bioma abriga uma das faunas mais pobres de morcegos, o que pode ser resultado de sub-amostragem, uma vez que menos de 10% de sua extensão foi minimamente amostrada. Neste artigo comunicamos os resultados do primeiro inventário de morcegos conduzido na Reserva Particular do Patrimônio da Natural Pé de Serra, Ibotirama, nordeste do Brasil, uma área protegida de Caatinga no Vale do Rio São Franscisco, e destacamos a potencial importância desta reserva para a conservação do bioma Caatinga do Brasil. Por meio de capturas com redes-de-neblina e buscas por abrigos diurnos, nós registramos 55 morcegos na RPPN Pé de Serra, pertencentes à 11 espécies, 10 gêneros e 2 famílias. A espécie mais capturada doi Artibeus planirostris (Spix, 1823), seguido por Carollia perspicillata (Linnaeus, 1758) e Platyrrhinus lineatus (É. Geoffroy, 1810). As coletas em abrigos diurnos permitiram o primeiro registro de Saccopteryx leptura (Schreber, 1774) para o estado da Bahia, e o registro de Chrotopterus auritus (Peters, 1856), o qual representa um dos primeiros registros para o bioma da Caatinga. Este e outros estudos discutidos neste trabalho fornecem evidências sobre a importância da criação de novas áreas protegidas no bioma Caatinga, de forma a conservar e restaurar os habitats remanescentes e aumentar a conectividade das áreas protegidas.

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“…The proportion of bat‐pollinated species (11–13.1%) is outstandingly higher in the Caatinga than in other tropical plant communities (Machado & Lopes, 2004; Quirino & Machado, 2014). Nine species of nectar‐feeding bats, including two endemic species, are known to occur in Caatinga (Carvalho‐Neto et al, 2017; Moratelli & Dias, 2015). The two endemics, Xeronycteris vieirai and Lonchophylla inexpectata , are known to feed on nectar and pollen of Cactaceae, Bromeliaceae, and Fabaceae (Cordero‐Schmidt et al, 2017; Gomes et al, 2018).…”

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Bat–flower interaction networks in Caatinga reveal generalized associations and temporal stability

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Seasonal variation in precipitation regimes influences species composition and plantanimal interactions. Such temporal variation is especially relevant in the Brazilian Caatinga, the largest Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest in South America, where bat pollination is unusually frequent in comparison with other tropical plant communities.Here, we describe seasonal and annual variations of the interaction networks between nectarivorous bats and flower species in the Caatinga. Five species of nectar-feeding bats interacted with 30 plant species. Nectarivorous bats showed high levels of interaction overlap, which contributed to ecological generalization (low specialization and modularity) and lack of nestedness in the interaction networks. This pattern was consistent across seasons and years. Chiropterophilous and non-chiropterophilous plants were equally important components of the interaction network. The generalized interaction patterns found may be a necessary condition for the persistence of nectarivorous bats and their specialized plants in the environmentally harsh and variable Caatinga. The underappreciated generalized interactions of bats with plants calls for studies testing the effectiveness of bats in pollinating the plants they visit, including those not typically categorized as "bat-flowers".

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The heterogeneity of Caatinga biome: an overview of the bat fauna

Cited by 14 publications

References 20 publications

Bats (Mammalia, Chiroptera) from an area of Caatinga in southwestern Bahia, Brazil

Bats (Mammalia, Chiroptera) from an area of Caatinga in southwestern Bahia, Brazil

Bats of RPPN Pé de Serra, a reserve of Caatinga in the northeastern Brazil

Bat–flower interaction networks in Caatinga reveal generalized associations and temporal stability

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