Bats of RPPN Pé de Serra, a reserve of Caatinga in the northeastern Brazil
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.22478/ufpb.2236-1480.2019v27n1.46053Abstract
Caatinga is the least protected among all biomes within Brazil, and a vast part of its total area is located at the Bahia state, northeastern Brazil. Mammal inventories of Caatinga areas are sparse, and it harbors one of the two poorest known bat fauna within Brazil, as less than 10% of its extension has been minimally sampled. In this paper we report the results of the first bat inventory conducted at the Reserva Particular do Patrimônio Natural Pé de Serra, Ibotirama, NE Brazil, a protected area of Caatinga in the São Francisco river Valley and highlight the potential importance of this reserve for the conservation of the Caatinga biome of Brazil. Using mist-nets and searching for diurnal roosts, we recorded 55 bats in the RPPN Pé de Serra, belonging to 11 species, 10 genera and 2 families. The most frequently captured species was Artibeus planirostris (Spix, 1823), followed by Carollia perspicillata (Linnaeus, 1758) and Platyrrhinus lineatus (É. Geoffroy, 1810). Collecting bats at their diurnal roosts allowed to the first record of Saccopteryx leptura (Schreber, 1774) for the Bahia state and the record of Chrotopterus auritus (Peters, 1856) representing one of a few records of this species for the Caatinga biome. Our data can be useful to reinforce the urge to create new reserves to protect the Caatinga biome, in order to conserve and restore the habitat remnants, and to enable connectivity between protected areas.
References
ALVAREZ, J.; WILLIG, M. R.; JONES JR., J. K. & WEBSTER, W. D. 1991. Glossophaga soricina. Mammalian Species 379:1-7.
BERNARD, E.; AGUIAR, L. M. S. & MACHADO, R. 2011. Discovering the Brazilian bat fauna: a task for two centuries? Mammal Review 41(1): 23–39.
BERNARD, E. & FENTON, B. 2003. Bat mobility in a fragmented landscape in Central Amazonia. Biotropica 35:262–277.
BRITO, D.; OLIVEIRA, L. C.; OPREA, M. & MELLO, M. A. R. 2009. An overview of Brazilian mammalogy: trends, biases and future directions. Zoologia 26(1):67-73.
CARVALHO-NETO, F. G.; SILVA, J. R.; SANTOS, N.; ROHDE, C.; GARCIA, A. C. L. & MONTES, M. A. 2017. The heterogeneity of Caatinga biome: an overview of the bat fauna. Mammalia 81(3):257-264.
COLWELL, R. K. 2013. EstimateS: Statistical estimation of species richness and shared species from samples. Version 9.1.0. Available at: <http://www.purl.oclc.org/estimates>. Accessed on October, 2013.
ESTRADA-VILLEGAS, S.; MCGILL, B. & KALKO, E. K. V. 2012. Determinants of species evenness in a neotropical bat ensemble. Oikos 121:927–941.
FALCÃO, F. C.; SOARES-SANTOS, B. & DRUMMOND, S. 2005. Espécies de morcegos do Planalto da Conquista, Bahia, Brasil. Chiroptera Neotropical 11(1-2):220-223.
FARIA, D. & BAUMGARTEN, J. 2007. Shade cacao plantations (Theobroma cacao) and bat conservation in southern Bahia, Brazil. Biodiversity and Conservation 16:291–312.
FEIJÓ, J. A. & LANGGUTH, A. 2011. Lista de quirópteros da Paraíba, Brasil com 25 novos registros. Chiroptera Neotropical 17(2):1055-1062.
FARIA, D. 2006. Phyllostomid bats of a fragmented landscape in north-eastern Atlantic forest, Brazil. Journal of Tropical Ecology 22:531–542.
FARIA, D.; SOARES-SANTOS, B. & SAMPAIO, E. 2006. Bats from the Atlantic rainforest of southern Bahia, Brazil. Biota Neotropica 6(2). Available at: <http://www.biotaneotropica.org.br/v6n2/pt/abstract?inventory+bn02406022006>. Accessed on October, 2013.
FENTON, M. B.; ACHARYA, L.; AUDET, D.; HICKEY, M. B. C.; MERRIMAN, C.; OBRIST, M. K. & SYME, D. M. 1992. Phyllostomid bats (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) as indicators of habitat disruption in the Neotropics. Biotropica 24(30):440-446.
GARDNER, A. L. 2007. Mammals of South America – Marsupials, Xenarthrans, Shrews and Bats. v.1, The University of Chicago Press. 669p.
GIANNINI, N. P. & KALKO, E. K. V. 2004. Trophic structure in a large assemblage of phyllostomid bats in Panama. Oikos 105:209-220.
GORRENSEN, P. M. & WILLIG, M. R. 2004. Landscape responses of bats to habitat fragmentation in Atlantic forest of Paraguay. Journal of Mammalogy 85(4):688-697.
GOTELLI, N. J. & COLWELL, R. K. 2001. Quantifying biodiversity: procedures and pitfalls in the measurement and comparison of species richness. Ecology Letters 4:379-391.
GREGORIN, R. & MENDES, L. F. 1999. Sobre quirópteros (Emballonuridae, Phyllostomidae, Natalidae) de duas cavernas da Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, Brasil. Iheringia, Série Zoologia 86:121-124.
GREGORIN, R.; CARMIGNOTTO, A. P. & PERCEQUILLO, A. R. 2008. Quirópteros do Parque da Serra das Confusões, Piauí, nordeste do Brasil. Chiroptera Neotropical 14(1):366-383.
IBGE - INSTITUTO BRASILEIRO DE GEOGRAFIA E ESTATÍSTICA. 2004. Mapa de Biomas do Brasil. Rio de Janeiro, IBGE/MMA.
KALKO, E. 1997. Diversity in tropical bats. In: Kunz, T. H. ed. Tropical Biodiversity and systematics: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Biodiversity and Systematics in Tropical Ecosystems. Bonn, Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig. p.13-43.
KALKO, E. K. V. 1998. Organization and diversity of tropical bat communities through space and time. Zoology 101:281–297.
KUNZ, T. H. & KURTA, A. 1988. Capture methods and holding devices. In: Kunz, T. H. ed. Ecological and behavioral methods for the study of bats. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press. p.1-29.
KOTTEK, M.; GRIESER, J.; BECK, C.; RUDOLF, B. & RUBEL, F. 2006. World Map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification updated. Meteorologische Zeitschrift 15(3):259-263.
LEAL, I. R.; SILVA, J. M. C.; TABARELLI, M. & LACHER JR., T. E. 2005. Mudando o curso da conservação da biodiversidade na Caatinga do Nordeste do Brasil. Megadiversidade 1(1):139-146.
LEWINSOHN, T. M. 2006. Avaliação do estado do conhecimento da biodiversidade brasileira. Brasília, MMA. 520p.
LIM, B. K. & ENGSTROM, M. D. 2001. Species diversity of bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) in Iwokrama Forest, Guyana, and the Guianan subregion: implications for conservation. Biodiversity and Conservation 10:613–657.
MARINHO-FILHO, J. & SAZIMA, I. 1998. Brazilian bats and conservation biology: a first survey. In: T. H. Kunz & P. A. Racey. eds. Bat Biology and Conservation. Washington D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press. p.282-294.
MCALEECE, N.; GAGE, J. D. G.; LAMBSHEAD, P. J. D. & PATERSON, J. L. G. 1997. BioDiversity Professional statistical analysis. Available at: <http://www.sams.ac.uk/peter-lamont/biodiversity-pro>. Accessed on October, 2013.
MCSWINEY, M. C.; CLARKE, F. M. & RACEY, P. 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.
MEDELLÍN, R. A.; EQUIHUA, M. & ALMIN, M. A. 2000. Bat diversity and abundance as indicators of disturbance in Neotropical rainforests. Conservation Biology 14(6):1666-1675.
MORATELLI R. & DIAS D. (2015) A new species of nectar-feeding bat, genus Lonchophylla, from the Caatinga of Brazil (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae). ZooKeys, 514: 73–91. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.514.10013
FEIJÓ J.A., ROCHA P.A. & ALTHOFF S.L. 2015. New species of Histiotus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa, 4048(3): 412–427. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4048.3.4
FEIJÓ J.A., ROCHA P.A., MIKALAUSKAS J.S. & FERRARI S.F. 2015b. Macrophyllum macrophyllum (Schinz, 1821) in the Brazilian Caatinga scrublands: river basins as potential routes of dispersal in xeric ecosystems. Mastozoologia Neotropical 22(1): 1–7.
PAGLIA A.P.; FONSECA, G.A.B.; RYLANDS, A.B.; HERRMANN G.; AGUIAR, L.M.S.; CHIARELLO, A.G.; LEITE Y.L.R.; COSTA L.P.; SICILIANO S. & KIERULFF M.C.M, SÉRGIO L. MENDES, V. DA C. TAVARES, V. DA C., MITTERMEIER, R.A. & J. L. PATTON. 2012. Lista anotada dos mamíferos do Brasil. 2° edição. Occasional Papers of Conservation Biology, 6: 1–76.
PERACCHI, A. L. & NOGUEIRA, M. R. 2007. Família Emballonuridae. In: REIS, N. R.; PERACCHI, A. L.; PEDRO, W. A. & LIMA, I. P. orgs. Morcegos do Brasil. Londrina. p.27-36.
NOGUEIRA, M. R.; PERACCHI, A. L. & MORATELLI, R. 2007. Subfamília Phyllostominae. In: REIS, N. R.; PERACCHI, A. L.; PEDRO, W. A. & LIMA, I. P. orgs. Morcegos do Brasil. Londrina. p.61-97.
NOWAK, R. 1994. Walker´s Bats of the World. Baltimore and London, The Johns Hopkins University Press. 287p.
PATTERSON, B. D.; WILLIG, M. R. & STEVENS, R. D. 2003. Trophic strategies, niche partitioning, and patterns of ecological organization. In: KUNZ, T. H. & FENTON, M. B. eds. Bat Ecology. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press. 536-579p.
RIOS, G. F. P.; SÁ-NETO, R. J. & GRACIOLLI, G. 2008. Fauna de dípteros parasitas de morcegos em uma área de Caatinga do nordeste do Brasil. Chiroptera Neotropical 14(1):339-345.
ROCHA, P.A., FEIJÓ J.A., PEDROSO M.A. & FERRARI S.F. 2015. First record of the big free-tailed bat, Nyctinomops macrotis (Chiroptera, Molossidae), for the semi-arid Caatinga scrublands of northeastern Brazil. Mastozoología Neotropical, 22(1): 195–200.
ROCHA P.A., PEDROSO M.A. & VELAZCO P.M. 2018 First record of Platyrrhinus fusciventris (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) for the Caatinga biome. Mammalia, 82(2): 178–182. doi: 10.1515/mammalia-2016-0170
SÁ, I. B.; RICHÉ, G. R. & FOTIUS, G. A. 2003. As paisagens e o processo de degradação do semi-árido nordestino. In: SILVA, J. M. C.; TABARELLI, M.; FONSECA, M. T. & LINS, L. V. eds. Biodiversidade da Caatinga: áreas e ações prioritárias para a conservação. Brasília, MMA. p.17-36.
SÁ-NETO, R.J. & J. MARINHO-FILHO. 2013. Bats in fragments of xeric woodland Caatinga in Brazilian semiarid. Journal of Arid Environments. 90: 88-94.
SBRAGIA, I. A. & CARDOSO, A. 2008. Quiropterofauna (Mammalia: Chiroptera) cavernícola da Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, Brasil. Chiroptera Neotropical 14(1):360-365.
SCHNITZLER, H.-U. & KALKO, E. K. V. 1998. How echolocating bats search and find food. In: KUNZ, T. H. & RACEY, P. A. eds. Bat Biology and Conservation. Washington and London, Smithsonian Institution Press. p.183-196.
SCHULZE, M. D.; SEAVY, N. E. & WHITACRE, D. F. 2000. A comparison of phyllostomid bat assemblages in undisturbed Neotropical forest and in forest fragments of a slash-and-burn farming mosaic in Petén, Guatemala. Biotropica 32:174–184.
SILVA, J. M. C.; TABARELLI, M.; FONSECA, M. T. & LINS, L. V. 2003. Biodiversidade da Caatinga: áreas e ações prioritárias para a conservação. Brasília, MMA. 382p.
SIMMONS, N. B. & VOSS, R. S. 1998. The Mammals of Paracou, French Guiana: a Neotropical lowland rainforest fauna. Part 1. Bats. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 237:1-219.
STRAUBE, F. C. & BIANCONI, G. V. 2002. Sobre a grandeza e a unidade utilizada para estimar esforço de captura com utilização de redes-de-neblina. Chiroptera Neotropical 8(1-2):150–152.
TAVARES, V. C., GREGORIN, R. & PERACCHI, A. L. 2008. A diversidade de morcegos no Brasil: lista atualizada com comentários sobre distribuição e taxonomia. In: PACHECO S. M.; MARQUES R. V.; ESBÉRARD C. E. orgs. Morcegos do Brasil: Biologia, Sistemática, Ecologia e Conservação. Porto Alegre, Armazém Digital. p. 25-60.
TRAJANO, E. 1996. Protecting caves for the bats or bats for the caves? Chiroptera Neotropical 1:19-22.
VIZOTTO, L. D. & TADDEI, V. A. 1973. Chave para determinação de quirópteros brasileiros. Revista da Faculdade de Ciências e Letras de São José do Rio Preto, Boletim de Ciências 1:1-72.
WILSON, D. E. 1975. Bat faunas: a trophic comparison. Systematic Zoology 22:14-29.
Additional Files
- Location of municipality of Ibotirama, Bahia, northeastern Brazil (Portuguese (Brazil))
- Species accumulation curve with 95% confidence intervals for the bat fauna of RPPN Pé de Serra, Ibotirama, Brazil (Portuguese (Brazil))
- Rank abundance plot for the bat fauna of RPPN Pé de Serra, Ibotirama, Brazil (Portuguese (Brazil))
- List of bats recorded in the RPPN Pé de Serra, Ibotirama, Bahia, northeastern Brazil. Feeding guilds: frugivore- FR, omnivore – ON, sanguinivore – SA, nectarivore – NE, gleaning insectivore – GI, aerial insectivore - AI, and carnivore - CA. (Portuguese (Brazil))
Published
Issue
Section
License
Accepted and published articles become the property of Revista Nordestina de Biologia, and their total or partial reproduction is prohibited without the authorization of the Editorial Commission, except for use of study and research, as long as the source is mentioned.
