Temporal distribution of five bat species (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) from Panga Reserve, south-eastern Brazil

Pedro, Wagner A.; Taddei, Valdir A.

doi:10.1590/S0101-81752002000300033

Abstract

Data about activity patterns, hourly and monthly, on five phyllostomid bats, Glossophaga soricina (Pallas, 1766), Anoura caudifer (E. Geoffroy, 1818), Camilla perspicillata (Linnaeus, 1758), Sturnira lilium (E. Geoffroy, 1810) and Platyrrhinus lineatus (E. Geoffroyi, 1810), studied over a one year period at the Panga Ecological Reserve, Uberlandia, Minas Gerais state, south-eastern Brazil, are reported and discussed.

Chiroptera; Phyllostomidae; temporal activity; ecological niche; migration

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Temporal distribution of five bat species (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) from Panga Reserve, south-eastern Brazil

Wagner A. Pedro^I; Valdir A. Taddei^II

^ILaboratório de Chiroptera, Departamento de Apoio, Produção e Saúde Animal, Universidade Estadual Paulista. Caixa Postal 341, 16050-680, Aracatuba, São Paulo, Brasil

^IIUniversidade para o Desenvolvimento do Estado e da Região do Pantanal. 79003-010 Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil

ABSTRACT

Data about activity patterns, hourly and monthly, on five phyllostomid bats, Glossophaga soricina (Pallas, 1766), Anoura caudifer (E. Geoffroy, 1818), Camilla perspicillata (Linnaeus, 1758), Sturnira lilium (E. Geoffroy, 1810) and Platyrrhinus lineatus (E. Geoffroyi, 1810), studied over a one year period at the Panga Ecological Reserve, Uberlandia, Minas Gerais state, south-eastern Brazil, are reported and discussed.

Key words: Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae, temporal activity, ecological niche, migration

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. We are grateful to Burton K. Lim for comments and suggestions on the manuscript, two anonymous reviewers. Paulo De Marco Jr. for help with statistics, to Carlos A.K. Komeno for help in the field, and to CNPq, CAPES and FAPESP who provided support through grants, and FUNDUNESP who provided financial support for research materials.

Received in 15.VI.2000; accepted in 04.IX.2002.

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Kunz, T.H. 1973. Resource utilization: temporal and spatial components of bat activity in Central Iowa. Jour. Mammal. 54:14-32.
Lemke, T.O. 1984. Foraging ecology of the long-nosed bat, Glossophaga soricina, with respect to resource availability. Ecology 65:538-548.
Marinho-Filho, J.S. & I. Sazima. 1989. Activity patterns of six phyllostomid bat species in Southeastern Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Biologia 49:777-782.
Marshall, A. G. & A.N. McWilliam. 1982. Ecological observations on epomophorine fruit bats (Megachiroptera) in West African savanna woodland. Jour. Zool. 198:53-67.
Observatório Nacional do Rio de Janeiro. 1990. Efemérides astronômicas. Rio de Janeiro, Secretaria Especial da Ciência e Tecnologia, CNPQ, 574p.
______. 1991. Efemérides astronômicas. Rio de Janeiro, Secretaria Especial da Ciência e Tecnologia, CNPq, 574p.
Pedro, W.A. & V.A. Taddei. 1997. Taxonomic assemblage of bats from Panga Reserve, southeastern Brazil: abundance patterns and trophic relations in the Phyllostomidae. Bol. Mus. Biol. Mello Leitão, n. sér., Santa Teresa 6:3-21.
Pianka. E.C. 1973. The structure of lizard communities. Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 4:53-74.
Sazima, M.; M.E. Fabian & I. Sazima. 1982. Polinização de Luehea speciosa (Tiliaceae) por Glossophaga soricina (Chiroptera - Phyllostomidae). Rev. Brasil. Biol. 42:505-513.
Sazima, M. & I. Sazima. 1978. Bat Pollination of the Passion Flower, Passiflora mucronata, in Southeastern Brazil. Biotropica 10:100-109.
Zar, J.H. 1984. Biostatistical Analysis. New Jersey, Prentice Hall Inc., 2^nd ed., 718p.
Zaret, T.M. & A.S. Rand. 1971.Competition in tropical stream fishes: support for the competitive exclusion principle. Ecology 52:336-342.

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[1] Brown, J.H. 1968. Activity patterns of some neotropical bats. Jour. Mammal. 49:754-757.

[2] Fischer, E.A. 1992. Foraging of Nectarivorous Bats on Bauhinia ungulata. Biotropica 24:579-582.

[3] Fischer, E.A.; F.A. Jimenez; M. Sazima. 1992. Polinização por morcegos em duas espécies de Bombacaceae na Estação Ecológica de Juréia, São Paulo. Rev. bras. Bot. 15:67-72.

[4] Heithaus, E.R.; T.H. Fleming; P.A. Opler. 1975. Foraging patterns and resource utilization in seven species of bats in a seasonal tropical forest. Ecology 56:841-854

[5] Kunz, T.H. 1973. Resource utilization: temporal and spatial components of bat activity in Central Iowa. Jour. Mammal. 54:14-32.

[6] Lemke, T.O. 1984. Foraging ecology of the long-nosed bat, Glossophaga soricina, with respect to resource availability. Ecology 65:538-548.

[7] Marinho-Filho, J.S. & I. Sazima. 1989. Activity patterns of six phyllostomid bat species in Southeastern Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Biologia 49:777-782.

[8] Marshall, A. G. & A.N. McWilliam. 1982. Ecological observations on epomophorine fruit bats (Megachiroptera) in West African savanna woodland. Jour. Zool. 198:53-67.

[9] Observatório Nacional do Rio de Janeiro. 1990. Efemérides astronômicas. Rio de Janeiro, Secretaria Especial da Ciência e Tecnologia, CNPQ, 574p.

[10] ______. 1991. Efemérides astronômicas. Rio de Janeiro, Secretaria Especial da Ciência e Tecnologia, CNPq, 574p.

[11] Pedro, W.A. & V.A. Taddei. 1997. Taxonomic assemblage of bats from Panga Reserve, southeastern Brazil: abundance patterns and trophic relations in the Phyllostomidae. Bol. Mus. Biol. Mello Leitão, n. sér., Santa Teresa 6:3-21.

[12] Pianka. E.C. 1973. The structure of lizard communities. Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 4:53-74.

[13] Sazima, M.; M.E. Fabian & I. Sazima. 1982. Polinização de Luehea speciosa (Tiliaceae) por Glossophaga soricina (Chiroptera - Phyllostomidae). Rev. Brasil. Biol. 42:505-513.

[14] Sazima, M. & I. Sazima. 1978. Bat Pollination of the Passion Flower, Passiflora mucronata, in Southeastern Brazil. Biotropica 10:100-109.

[15] Zar, J.H. 1984. Biostatistical Analysis. New Jersey, Prentice Hall Inc., 2^nd ed., 718p.

[16] Zaret, T.M. & A.S. Rand. 1971.Competition in tropical stream fishes: support for the competitive exclusion principle. Ecology 52:336-342.