Structure and composition of the bat assemblage associated to a shade coffee plantation in mesa de los santos (Santander), Colombia
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.acbi.329341Keywords:
Chiroptera, Colombia, composition, shade coffee plantations, structureAbstract
The structure and composition of the bat assemblage on the shade coffee plantation at “El Roble” farm (Santander), Colombia, located at 1.650 m of altitude was described between September and November 2003. Due to the spatial heterogeneity of the area a cluster sampling design was chosen. Five sampling zones or clusters corresponding to 3 habitat types were sampled using mist nets at 2 different heights. All captured bats were measured, aged and its reproductive condition was determined. Fecal samples were collected. A total of 147 individuals from 11 species belonging to Phyllostomidae (10 species) and Vespertilionidae (1 species) families were captured. The most abundant species were Sturnira lilium, Artibeus lituratus, and Carollia brevicauda, this dominance pattern along with the presence of Phyllostomus discolor (Phyllostominae) suggested, that the shade coffee plantation at “El Roble” farm, is in similar conservation conditions to primary and secondary forests with a low intervention degree. Trophic values and importance values were used to describe the trophic structure of the assemblage wich was dominated by sedentary frugivores, followed by foliage gleaner insectivores, nomadic frugivores and aerial insectivores, respectively. When proportions of the trophic groups among habitats were compared by using the Odds ratios technique, each trophic group presented a higher probability to be captured in a different habitat type than the other trophic groups. In the particular case of the sedentary and nomadic frugivores this was explained in terms of its feeding strategies.
Downloads
References
Alberico M, Cadena A, Hernández-Camacho J, Muñoz-Saba Y. 2000. Mamíferos (Synapsida: Theria) de Co-lombia. Biota Colombiana, 1(1):43-75.
Altringham JD. 1996. Bats, biology and behavior. OxfordUniversity Press. New York, U. S. A.Analytical Software. 2003. Statistix 8.0 for Windows. WEB:<http://www.analyticalsoftware.com>.
Bernard E. 2001. Vertical stratification of bat communitiesin primary forests of Central Amazon, Brazil. Journalof Tropical Ecology, 17:115-126.
Bolaños T. 2000. Dieta y estructura trófica de la comuni-dad de Chiroptera en cuatro áreas de bosque andinoen el sector sur-occidental de la sabana de Bogotá,Colombia. Trabajo de grado. Departamento de Bio-logía. Facultad de Ciencias Pontificia UniversidadJaveriana. Bogotá, Colombia.
Bonaccorso FJ. 1979. Foraging and reproductive ecologyin a Panamanian bat community. Bulletin of the Flo-rida State Museum, Biological Series, 24:359-408.
Brosset A, Charles-Dominique P, Cockle A, Cosson J,Masson D. 1996. Bat communities and deforestationin French Guiana. Canadian Journal of Zoology,74(11):1974-1982.
Charles-Dominique P. 1991. Feeding strategy and activitybudget of the frugivorous bat Carollia perspicillata(Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) in French Guiana.Journal of Tropical Ecology, 7:243-256.
Colwell RK. 2000. EstimateS 7.0 Statistical estimation ofspecies richness and shared species for samples.Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.University of Connecticut. U. S. A. WEB: <http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/EstimateS>CORPES. 1991. Atlas ambiental del Departamento deSantander. Primera edición. Ingeniería Gráfica.Cali, Colombia.
Emmons LH, Feer E. 1996. Neotropical rainforestmammals. A field guide. Second edition. TheUniversity of Chicago Press. Chicago, U. S. A.Estrada A, Coates-Estrada R. 2002. Bats in continuousforest, forest fragments and in an agricultural mosaichabitat-island at Los Tuxtlas, México. BiologicalConservation, 103:237-245.
FAO. 2006. The Agricultural Bulletin Board on DataCollection, Dissemination and Quality of Statisticsproject. FAO Homepage <http://faostat.fao.org/faostat/collectionsagriculture>. Fecha de consulta:agosto 2 de 2006.
Fenton MB, Acharya L, Audet D, Hickey MB, MerrimanMK, Obrist D, Byrne M. 1992. Phyllostomid bats (Chi-roptera: Phyllostomidae) as indicators of habitat dis-ruption in the neotropics. Biotrópica, 24(3):440-446.
Fenton MB, Bernard E, Bouchard S, Hollis L, JhonstonDS, Lausen CL, Ratcliffe JM, Ruskin DK, TaylorJR, Zigouris J. 2001. The bat fauna of Lamanai,Belize: roosts and trophic roles. Journal of TropicalEcology, 17:511-524.
Fernández A, Guerrero R, Lord R, Ochoa J, Ulloa G.1988. Mamíferos de Venezuela: lista y claves parasu identificación. Primera edición. Asociación Ve-nezolana para el Estudio de los Mamíferos. Cara-cas, Venezuela.
Fleming TH, Hooper ET, Wilson DE. 1972. Three Cen-tral American bat communities: Structure,reproductive cycles and movement’s patterns.Ecology, 53:556-569.
Fuentes-Flores R. 1979. Coffee production systems inMexico. Pp. 60-71. En: de las Salas F (ed.). Workshopon agroforestry systems in Latin America. The Tro-pical Agronomic Center for Research and Teaching.Turrialba, Costa Rica.
Galindo-González J. 1998. Dispersión de semillas por mur-ciélagos: su importancia en la conservación y rege-neración del bosque tropical. Acta Zoológica Mexi-cana, 73:57-74.
Galindo-González J. 2004. Clasificación de los murciéla-gos de la región de los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, respecto asu respuesta a la fragmentación del hábitat. Acta Zoo-lógica Mexicana, 20:239-243.
Gentry AH. 1982. Patterns of Neotropical plant diversity.Evolutionary Biology, 15:1- 84.Greenberg R, Rice RA. 2000. Manual de café bajo som-bra y biodiversidad en el Perú. Primera edición.Migratory Bird Center Smithsonian Institution. Was-hington, D. C., U. S. A.
Hammer O, Harper DAT, Ryan PD. 2004. PAST:Paleontological statistics version 1.21. Universityof Oslo. Norway. WEB: <http://www.folk.uio.no/ohammer/past/>.
Hecker KR, Brigham RM. 1999. Does moonlight changevertical stratification of activity by forest-dwellinginsectivorous bats? Journal of Mammalogy,80:1196-1201.
Heithaus ER, Fleming T, Opler PA. 1975. Foraging patternsand resource utilization in seven species of bats in aseasonal tropical forest. Ecology, 56:841-854.
Heithaus ER. 1982. Coevolution between plants and bats.Pp. 327-367. En: Kunz TH (ed.). Ecology of bats.Plenum Press. New York, U. S. A.
Kalko EK, Handley Jr CO, Handley D. 1996. Organization,diversity and long-term dynamics of a Neotropicalbat community. Pp. 504-555. En: Cody ML, SmallwoodJA (eds.). Long-term studies of vertebratecommunities. Academic Press. San Diego, U. S. A.
Kunz TH, Kurta A. 1988. Capture methods and holdingdevices. Pp. 1-29. En: Kunz TH (ed.). Ecological andbehavioral methods for the study of bats.Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington, D. C.,U. S. A.
Kurta A, Baker RH. 1990. Eptesicus fuscus. MammalianSpecies, 356:1-10.LaVal RK, Fitch HS. 1977. Structure, movements andreproduction in three Costa Rican bat communities.Occasional Papers Museum of Natural History ofthe University of Kansas, 69:1-28.
López W. 2002. Café: Técnica y tradición. Primera edi-ción. Universidad Santiago de Cali. Cali, Colombia.Magurran AE. 2003. Ecological diversity and itsmeasurement. Second edition. Princeton UniversityPress. New York, U. S. A.
Martínez C. 2002. Muestreo, algunos métodos y sus apli-caciones prácticas. Décimo primera edición.Interamericana Editores. Bogotá, Colombia.
Martínez R, Martínez N. 1997. Diseño de experimentos:Análisis de datos estándar y no estándar. Primeraedición. Editora Guadalupe Ltda. Bogotá, Colombia.
Medellín RA, Arita HT, Sánchez O. 1997. Identificaciónde los murciélagos de México, clave de campo. Pri-mera edición. Asociación Mexicana deMastozoología. México D. F., México.
Medellín RA, Equihua M, Amin MA. 2000. Bat diversityand abundance as indicators of disturbance inneotropical rainforests. Conservation Biology,14(6):1666-1675.
Medellín RA. 2003. Diversity and conservation of bats inMéxico: Research, priorities, strategies and actions.Wildlife Society Bulletin, 31(1):87-97.
Montgomery DC, Runger GC. 1996. Probabilidad y esta-dística aplicadas a la ingeniería. Quinta edición.McGraw-Hill-Interamericana Editores. México D. F.,México.
Moreno CE. 2000. Manual de métodos para medir labiodiversidad. Primera edición. Estado de Hidalgo,México.Muñoz J. 1986. Murciélagos del Parque Natural “El Refu-gio” (Antioquia, Colombia). Actualidades Biológi-cas, 12:66-76.
Muñoz J. 1990. Diversidad y hábitos alimenticios de mur-ciélagos en transectos altitudinales a través de lacordillera Central de los Andes en Colombia.Neotropical Fauna and Environment, 1:1-17.
Muñoz J. 2001. Los murciélagos de Colombia: Sistemáti-ca, distribución, descripción, historia natural yecología. Primera edición. Editorial Universidad deAntioquia. Medellín, Colombia.
Negraeff E, Brigham RM. 1995. The influence of moonlighton the activity of little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus).International Journal of Mammalian Biology,60:330-336.
Nowak RM. 1994. Walker ́s bats of the World. Fifth edition.The Johns Hopkins University Press. London, UK.Numa C, Verdú JR, Sánchez-Palomino P. 2005. Phyllostomid bat diversity in a variegated coffeelandscape. Biological Conservation, 122:151-158.
Pérez-Torres J. 2001. Efecto de la fragmentación sobrela estructura y composición de la comunidad demurciélagos en bosques alto-andinos. Tesis demaestría. Departamento de postgrado. Facultad deCiencias. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Bogo-tá, Colombia.
Pérez-Torres J. 2004. Dinámica del ensamblaje de murcié-lagos en respuesta a la fragmentación en bosquesnublados, un modelo de ecuaciones estructurales.Tesis de Doctorado en Ciencias Biológicas. Depar-tamento de Postgrado. Facultad de Ciencias.Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Bogotá, Colombia.
Perfecto I, Rice RA, Greenberg R, van der Voort ME. 1996.Shade coffee: A disappearing refuge for biodiversity.BioScience, 46(8):598-608.
Perfecto I, Armbretch I. 2003. The coffee agroecosystemin the neotropics: Combining ecological andeconomical goals. Pp. 160-281. En: Vandermeer JH(ed.). Tropical Agroecosystems. CRC Press. Washing-ton, D. C., U. S. A.
Pineda E, Moreno C, Escobar F, Halffter G. 2005. Frog, batand dung beetle diversity in the cloud forest andcoffee agroecosystems of Veracruz. ConservationBiology, 19(2):400-410.
Rivas-Pava P, Sánchez-Palomino P, Cadena A. 1996. Es-tructura trófica de la comunidad de quirópteros en bosques de galería de la Serranía de la Macarena(Meta-Colombia). Contributions in Mammalogy: Amemorial volume Honoring Dr. J. Knox Jones, Jr.Museum of Texas University. Texas, U. S. A.
Rojas AM, Cadena A, Stevenson PR. 2004. Preliminarystudy of the community at the CIEM, TiniguaNational Park, Colombia. Field studies: Fauna andFlora of La Macarena, Colombia, 14:45-56.
Roldán JL. 1995. Como elaborar un proyecto de investi-gación. Primera edición. Editorial Campbell. Mur-cia, España.
Sánchez-Palomino P, Rivas-Pava P, Cadena A. 1993. Com-posición, abundancia y riqueza de especies de la co-munidad de murciélagos en bosques de galería de laSerranía de la Macarena (Meta-Colombia). Caldasia,17(2):301-312.
Schultze MD, Seavy NE, Whitacre DF. 2000. A comparisonof the phyllostomid bat assemblages in undisturbedneotropical forest and in forest fragments of a slashand burn farming mosaic in Petén, Guatemala.Biotropica, 32(1):174-184.
Smith JD, Genoways HH. 1974. Bats of Margarita Island,Venezuela with zoogeographic comments. Bulletinof Southern California Academy of Science, 73:64-79.
Soberón J, Llorente J. 1993. The use of speciesaccumulation functions for the predictions ofspecies richness. Conservation Biology, 7:480-488.
Soriano PJ. 1983. La comunidad de Quirópteros de lasselvas nubladas de los andes de Mérida. Patrónreproductivo de los murciélagos frugívoros y lasestrategias fenológicas de las plantas. Tesis deMaestría. Universidad de los Andes. Mérida, Ve-nezuela.
Soriano PJ. 2000. Functional structure of bat communitiesin tropical rainforests and andean cloud forests.Ecotropicos, 13(1):1-20.
StatSoft. 2000. Statistica for Windows. StatSoft, Inc. WEB:<http://www.statsoft.com>.
Tamsitt JR, Valdivieso D. 1963. Records andobservations on colombian bats. Journal ofMammalogy, 44:168-180.
Timm RM, LaVal R. 1998. A field key to the bats of CostaRica. Occasional Publication Series of the Universityof Kansas. Center of Latin American Studies.University of Kansas. Kansas, U. S. A.
Willig MR. 1986. Bat community structure in SouthAmerica: A tenacious chimera. Revista Chilena deHistoria Natural, 59:151-168.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2017 Actualidades Biológicas
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
The authors exclusively authorize the Actualidades Biológicas journal to edit and publish the submitted manuscript if its publication is recommended and accepted, without this representing any cost to the Journal or the University of Antioquia.
All the ideas and opinions contained in the articles are sole responsibility of the authors. The total content of the issues or supplements of the journal is protected under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, so they cannot be used for commercial purposes, but for educational purposes. However, please mention the Actualidades Biológicas journal as a source and send a copy of the publication in which the content was reproduced.
