New records of bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) for a southern locality of the Argentine Yungas

Alurralde, Santiago Gamboa; Bárquez, Rubén M.; Díaz, M. Mónica

doi:10.15560/13.3.2105

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“…Although most species of bats are arthropodophagous (Shiel et al 1997), in tropical environments they are usually not the dominant guild, whereas at higher latitudes the importance of arthropodophagous species increases in the bat communities (Gamboa Alurralde, Barquez & Díaz 2017), as was recorded in this study. These results were also consistent with other studies carried out in the Neotropical Region (Aguirre 2002;Flores-Saldaña 2008).…”

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Assemblage-level responses of Neotropical bats to forest loss and fragmentation

Alurralde

Díaz

2021

Basic and Applied Ecology

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Assemblage-level responses of Neotropical bats to forest loss and fragmentation

Alurralde

Díaz

2021

Basic and Applied Ecology

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“…Regarding the degree of knowledge, people recognized between one (6%), two (79%) and three (15%) ethnospecies of the 15 species present in the area (see Gamboa Alurralde et al, 2016Alurralde et al, , 2017. The most frequent classification element was feeding, followed by anatomical aspects such as the presence of free tail and, to a lesser extent, size and coloration (textual expression local people 31: "in the area there are only two, the one with a pointed ear and the one with round ear ", local people 29: "the one of the dam and the vampire", local people 24: "I have seen one small and the big one", local people 27: "there is one black and another reddish").…”

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Perceptions and attitudes of the local people towards bats in the surroundings of the Escaba dam (Tucumán, Argentina)

Castilla

Campos²,

Colantonio³

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When biodiversity conservation of noncharismatic species is a priority, local people perception and value attributed to species are of vital importance. The big colony of bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) in the Escaba dam located at the Yungas forest is an emblematic case for the conservation of bats in Argentina. The objective of this study was to evaluate the perception and attitude about the bats of the people living around the Escaba dam in order to redirect conservation efforts and education plans. Semistructured surveys and participant observation were used to survey the information; and generalized linear models to analyze the data. The local inhabitants do not recognize the diversity of bat species and mention only bloodsucking and insectivorous bats. The results show a positive trend in perception and attitude, influenced by the recognition of the role of bats as insect controllers and a feeling of identity generated by the colony. The perception becomes more positive as age advances and in those who reached the secondary level of education. New ways of measuring perception and attitude are presented, such as describing the forms of bat exclusion. All this must be considered in the development of the management plan, which should consider the possible local use of guano as a fertilizer, sustainable tourism and educational actions aiming at differentiating the species (i.e. this is not a hematophagous bat colony), the role of the colony at controlling possible diseases and the ecosystem services associated with these species.

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“…Phylogenetic relationships of the major groups of Lasiurini and the various generic and subgeneric taxonomic arrange-ments are shown in Figure 1. The taxonomic changes proposed by Baird et al (2015 1B), who recognized three genera of lasiurine bats instead of the single genus Lasiurus, have been accepted by many authors (Alurralde et al 2017;Amador et al 2016;Best and Hunt 2020;Schmidly and Bradley 2016;Decker et al 2020;Espinosa-Martínez et al 2016;Geluso and Bogan 2018;Gimenez and Giannini 2017;Krejsa et al 2020;Lew and Lim 2019;Tirira 2018); however, others have not followed our taxonomy including Upham et al (2019) who report the most extensive phylogeny of mammals. Ziegler et al (2016), Novaes et al (2018), andTeta (2019) have argued that changes to the taxonomy of Lasiurini are not warranted because Lasiurus was a monophyletic genus.…”

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On the utility of taxonomy to reflect biodiversity: the example of Lasiurini (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae)

Baird

Braun

Engstrom

et al. 2021

Therya

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The taxonomic history of bats of the tribe Lasiurini (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) has undergone significant changes over time. Authors at different times have recognized various numbers of genera and subgenera within the tribe. The most recent proposed change to generic level taxonomy (that there should be three genera recognized instead of a single genus) has been debated in the literature. We reviewed papers that commented on the recent changes to lasiurine generic taxonomy, as well as those that have adopted the new taxonomy and the ones that have not. We also reviewed the relevant taxonomic literature from 1942 to the present that shows the fluid taxonomic history of these bats. The literature review shows that the recently proposed taxonomic change recognizing the three groups of lasiurine bats as distinct genera is the only taxonomy that differentiates the tribe from the genera. Examination of times to most recent common ancestor (TMRCA) of 24 vespertilionid genera shows Lasiurus, if it comprises all Lasiurini, to be an outlier. Here, we support the recognition of three genera and explain how this arrangement best reflects the evolutionary history and biodiversity of the tribe by bringing the three distinct lineages in line with other vespertilionid genera with respect to divergence times and genetic distances. Considering the Lasiurini to comprise a single genus, Lasiurus, that genus has the greatest TMRCA of all vespertilionid genera analyzed, comparable only to the genus Kerivoula of the monotypic subfamily Kerivoulinae. However, recognizing the three deeply diverged lasiurine lineages (red bats, yellow bats, and hoary bats) as genera brings their TMRCAs in line with other genera and approximates the mean TMRCA of the 24 genera analyzed. Opponents of Baird et al.’s taxonomy argued that these three lineages should be considered as subgenera to avoid changing scientific names for purpose of nomenclatural stability and ease of conducting a literature search and because the three deep lineages are all monophyletic. That argument ignores the biological reality that these lineages are morphologically distinct, and that they are genetically as distinct from one another as other genera of vespertilionid bats; there is ample precedent in the mammalian literature to use values of TMRCA as a metric to maintain consistency of higher taxonomic categories such as genus. We encourage other mammalogists to utilize taxonomy to its maximum descriptive potential, while taking into account phylogenetic relationships of the taxa of interest.

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New records of bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) for a southern locality of the Argentine Yungas

Cited by 7 publications

References 15 publications

Assemblage-level responses of Neotropical bats to forest loss and fragmentation

Assemblage-level responses of Neotropical bats to forest loss and fragmentation

Perceptions and attitudes of the local people towards bats in the surroundings of the Escaba dam (Tucumán, Argentina)

On the utility of taxonomy to reflect biodiversity: the example of Lasiurini (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae)

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