ATLANTIC BATS: a data set of bat communities from the Atlantic Forests of South America

ATLANTIC BATS: a data set of bat communities from the Atlantic Forests of South America

Bats are the second most diverse mammal order and they provide vital ecosystem functions (e.g., pollination, seed dispersal, and nutrient flux in caves) and services (e.g., crop pest suppression). Bats are also important vectors of infectious diseases, harboring more than 100 different virus types....

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Published in:Ecology (Durham) Vol. 98; no. 12; p. 3227
Main Authors: Muylaert, Renata d. L., Stevens, Richard D., Esbérard, Carlos E. L., Mello, Marco A. R., Garbino, Guilherme S. T., Varzinczak, Luiz H., Faria, Deborah, Weber, Marcelo d. M., Rogeri, Patricia Kerches, Regolin, André L., Oliveira, Hernani F. M. d., Costa, Luciana d. M., Barros, Marília A. S., Sabino-Santos, Gilberto, de Morais, Mara Ariane Crepaldi, Kavagutti, Vinicius S., Passos, Fernando C., Marjakangas, Emma-Liina, Maia, Felipe G. M., Ribeiro, Milton C., Galetti, Mauro
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: United States Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01-12-2017
Ecological Society of America
Subjects:
Artibeus fimbriatus
Artibeus lituratus
Bats
biodiversity hotspot
Carollia perspicillata
Caves
Chiroptera
Communities
crop pest suppression
Data Papers
Datasets
Deciduous forests
Dispersal
emerging diseases
forest fragmentation
Forests
Glossophaga soricina
Habitat loss
hyper‐dominance
Infectious diseases
mammal communities
mist nets
nutrient flux
Phyllostomidae
Platyrrhinus lineatus
Pollination
Seed dispersal
Species richness
Sturnira lilium
Tropical forests
Vectors
Viruses
emerging diseases
crop pest suppression
seed dispersal
Phyllostomidae
pollination
mammal communities
mist nets
hyper-dominance
biodiversity hotspot
forest fragmentation
Chiroptera
nutrient flux
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Summary:Bats are the second most diverse mammal order and they provide vital ecosystem functions (e.g., pollination, seed dispersal, and nutrient flux in caves) and services (e.g., crop pest suppression). Bats are also important vectors of infectious diseases, harboring more than 100 different virus types. In the present study, we compiled information on bat communities from the Atlantic Forests of South America, a species‐rich biome that is highly threatened by habitat loss and fragmentation. The ATLANTIC BATS data set comprises 135 quantitative studies carried out in 205 sites, which cover most vegetation types of the tropical and subtropical Atlantic Forest: dense ombrophilous forest, mixed ombrophilous forest, semideciduous forest, deciduous forest, savanna, steppe, and open ombrophilous forest. The data set includes information on more than 90,000 captures of 98 bat species of eight families. Species richness averaged 12.1 per site, with a median value of 10 species (ranging from 1 to 53 species). Six species occurred in more than 50% of the communities: Artibeus lituratus, Carollia perspicillata, Sturnira lilium, Artibeus fimbriatus, Glossophaga soricina, and Platyrrhinus lineatus. The number of captures divided by sampling effort, a proxy for abundance, varied from 0.000001 to 0.77 individuals·h−1·m−2 (0.04 ± 0.007 individuals·h−1·m−2). Our data set reveals a hyper‐dominance of eight species that together that comprise 80% of all captures: Platyrrhinus lineatus (2.3%), Molossus molossus (2.8%), Artibeus obscurus (3.4%), Artibeus planirostris (5.2%), Artibeus fimbriatus (7%), Sturnira lilium (14.5%), Carollia perspicillata (15.6%), and Artibeus lituratus (29.2%).
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ISSN:0012-9658
1939-9170
DOI:10.1002/ecy.2007