Title
Respuestas de los murciélagos a la fragmentación del bosque en Pozuzo, Perú
Other title
Responses of bats to forest fragmentation at Pozuzo, Peru
Date Issued
01 December 2010
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Facultad de Ciencias Biologicas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Abstract
Forest fragmentation and deforestation are among the major threats to Peruvian bats conservation. Unfortunately, information about the effects of these threats above 500 m elevation is lacking. In this study, I assessed bat responses to fragmentation in Pozuzo (Pasco) at a landscape scale approach. I evaluate two hypotheses regarding the role of bats as indicators of habitat disturbance. The first prediction says that landscapes highly disturbed will show higher abundances of habitat generalist species such as frugivorous bats belonging to the subfamilies Stenodermatinae and Carollinae. The second prediction regards that landscapes with greater forest cover will show higher abundance of habitat specialist species such as animalivorous bat species belonging to the subfamily Phyllostominae, a guild sensitive to forest disturbance. I found evidence supporting the animalivorous hypothesis but it was partial to the frugivorous hypothesis. This study highlights the importance of forest fragments to bat conservation in human-modified landscapes.
Start page
277
End page
284
Volume
17
Issue
3
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Zoología, Ornitología, Entomología, ciencias biológicas del comportamiento
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84871214191
Source
Revista Peruana de Biologia
ISSN of the container
15610837
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