Bats in Three Protected Areas of The Central Amazon Ecological Corridor in Brazil

Santos, Tamily Carvalho Melo dos; Lopes, Gerson Paulino; Rabelo, Rafael M.; Giannini, Tereza Cristina

doi:10.3161/15081109acc2019.21.2.017

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“…We used a previous compilation by Santos et al (2019) that assembled data for 44 bat communities in the Amazon as a starting point for our dataset. In addition, we included another eight communities available in the literature (Peracchi et al, 1984;Martins et al, 2006Martins et al, , 2011Patterson et al, 2006;Peters et al, 2006;Rex et al, 2008;Carvalho et al, 2018;Carrasco-Rueda et al, 2021).…”

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“…The Amazon region (6.9 million km 2 ) covers more than a third of the total Neotropical region area, harboring more than 170 bat species, which represents over 10% of the world's bat diversity, and more than 100 species might be recorded in a single locality (Medlin et al, 2010;Burgin et al, 2018;Santos et al, 2019). Even though some bat species are able to make long-distance dispersals (Arnone et al, 2016;Esbérard et al, 2017), many Neotropical species have small home ranges and specific ecological requirements, which can particularly limit their distribution ranges and contribute to the origin and maintenance of local endemism patterns (Meyer et al, 2005;Henry and Kalko, 2007;Voss et al, 2016).…”

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“…Nonetheless, three AoEs in the Amazon showed significantly different species compositions among them (Dambros et al, 2020). These are local-scale studies that sampled a relatively small geographic area within the Amazon, and only included a small number of bat species, i.e., ∼60 bat species (Dambros et al, 2020) and 76 species (Santorelli et al, 2018) from a total of more than 170 bat species known to occur in the biome (Santos et al, 2019). Noteworthy, the study of Tavares et al (2017) analyzed 26 Amazon localities, with 161 sampled bat species, and proposed that the composition of Amazon bat species can be divided into three zones: eastern Brazilian Amazon, Guiana Shield, and western Amazon.…”

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Flying Over Amazonian Waters: The Role of Rivers on the Distribution and Endemism Patterns of Neotropical Bats

Silva

Oliveira²,

Zangrandi³

et al. 2022

Front. Ecol. Evol.

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The Amazon comprises many of the largest rivers in the planet and also houses some of the richest bat communities in the world. Rivers are important geographic barriers for the dispersal and distribution of different taxa worldwide and, particularly in the Amazon region, they form the conceptual and empirical bases for the recognition of the so-called Areas of Endemism of terrestrial vertebrates. Despite the vast literature on the role of rivers on vertebrate community structure in the Amazon Forest, this process has never been investigated using a comprehensive dataset of Neotropical bat communities in the region. In this study, we aimed at: (1) evaluating the patterns of bat endemism across the Amazon Forest; (2) testing for the relationship between the distribution of bat species in the Amazon and the interfluve Areas of Endemism as currently recognized, and; (3) analyzing the importance of major Amazonian rivers in bat beta-diversity (turnover and nestedness) in the Amazon. Our results indicate that rivers are not major barriers for the current distribution of most bat species, and bat community composition breaks were divided into two clusters separating the east and west regions, and a third cluster in northern Amazon. In addition, there was no significant overlap among species distribution limits and the interfluve Areas of Endemism. Interestingly, the geographic patterns that we found for bat communities composition breaks highly resembles the one recovered using bird communities, suggesting that similar ecological and historical drivers might be acting to determine the distribution of flying vertebrates in the Amazon. Moreover, Amazonian bat distribution and endemism patterns were likely shaped by factors other than rivers, such as species interactions and the current environmental conditions. In conclusion, our results highlight the importance of modern analytical approaches to investigate large scale ecological patterns in the Neotropical region, and also challenge the widely recognized role of rivers on the determination of community structure and endemism patterns in the Amazon Forest, at least for bats.

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Flying Over Amazonian Waters: The Role of Rivers on the Distribution and Endemism Patterns of Neotropical Bats

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Zangrandi³

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Front. Ecol. Evol.

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“…However, because of limited data available in previous macroscale studies, it is possible that important environmental gradients affecting the distribution of bats have not been captured (Dambros et al, 2020). Studies have indicated that biogeographical regions and recent history of formation of the Amazonian terrestrial ecosystems have an influence on bat distributions (Lim & Tavares, 2012; Santos et al, 2019; Silva et al, 2022; Tavares et al, 2017). However, the results in the Amazon have been contradictory.…”

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“…For both datasets analysed, we also expect areas of endemism to have low predictive power for species turnover as they are often delimited by large rivers (Dambros et al, 2020). As ecoregions are considered subsets of large biomes (Olson et al, 2001), being analogous to the biogeographical regions considered for Amazonian bats (Santos et al, 2019; Tavares et al, 2017), we expect their explanatory power to be low for the two datasets analysed. We also expect geographical distance between locations to have a high explanatory power, as has already been observed for birds in the Amazon biome (Fluck et al, 2020), as more distant locations tend to have greater differences in their environmental characteristics.…”

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Elevation drives taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic β‐diversity of phyllostomid bats in the Amazon biome

Carvalho

Fluck

Castro

et al. 2022

Journal of Biogeography

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Aim:We evaluated the relative importance of geographical and environment variables for taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional β-diversity of phyllostomid bats along the entire Amazon biome and specifically in the lowlands.Location: Amazon biome.Taxon: Chiroptera. Methods:We carried out a bibliographic review and compiled a wide and unprecedented database of 106 phyllostomid bat species at 102 sites throughout the Amazon biome. For all possible pairs of sites in both datasets, we estimated the Jaccard pairwise dissimilarity, that is, β-diversity, considering its three dimensions-taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional-for its two components-turnover (substitution of species) and differences in species richness. The association between dissimilarity measurements and geographical and environment variables was assessed using multiple regressions on distance matrices (MRM). Results:We found that turnover and differences in species richness had similar contributions to the taxonomic β-diversity. However, for phylogenetic and functional β-diversity, lineages and functions richness differences contribute slightly more than

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Biodiversity and Conservation of Bats in Brazilian Amazonia: With a Review of the Last 10 Years of Research

Tavares,

de Carvalho,

Trevelin

et al. 2023

Amazonian Mammals

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Bats in Three Protected Areas of The Central Amazon Ecological Corridor in Brazil

Cited by 8 publications

References 101 publications

Flying Over Amazonian Waters: The Role of Rivers on the Distribution and Endemism Patterns of Neotropical Bats

Flying Over Amazonian Waters: The Role of Rivers on the Distribution and Endemism Patterns of Neotropical Bats

Elevation drives taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic β‐diversity of phyllostomid bats in the Amazon biome

Biodiversity and Conservation of Bats in Brazilian Amazonia: With a Review of the Last 10 Years of Research

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