2020
DOI: 10.1186/s40462-020-00232-8
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Patterns of foraging activity and fidelity in a southeast Asian flying fox

Abstract: Background Improved understanding of the foraging ecology of bats in the face of ongoing habitat loss and modification worldwide is essential to their conservation and maintaining the substantial ecosystem services they provide. It is also fundamental to assessing potential transmission risks of zoonotic pathogens in human-wildlife interfaces. We evaluated the influence of environmental and behavioral variables on the foraging patterns of Pteropus lylei (a reservoir of Nipah virus) in a heterog… Show more

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“…Following Schloesing et al ( 2020 ), we characterized the foraging areas used by each monitored bat (FAs; zones including one or several food patches where individuals actively search food, consume fruits, or rest), based on the concept of “area‐restricted search” (ARS; Kareiva & Odell, 1987 ). For a given bat, an ARS behavior includes a varying sequence of short flights and stationary bout locations (or a unique location when no sequence occurred) recorded outside the lek site and separated by at least one commuting flight.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Following Schloesing et al ( 2020 ), we characterized the foraging areas used by each monitored bat (FAs; zones including one or several food patches where individuals actively search food, consume fruits, or rest), based on the concept of “area‐restricted search” (ARS; Kareiva & Odell, 1987 ). For a given bat, an ARS behavior includes a varying sequence of short flights and stationary bout locations (or a unique location when no sequence occurred) recorded outside the lek site and separated by at least one commuting flight.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Among them, fruit bats are important hosts of emerging viruses (Calisher et al, 2006), some of which were involved in severe and recent outbreaks in human populations (Cappelle et al, 2020; Sharma et al, 2019). Fruit bat species display highly diversified daily foraging activity patterns (e.g., visiting one or several foraging areas with varying duration and re‐visitation rates; McEvoy et al, 2021; Schloesing et al, 2020) and mating systems (mainly polygamous using a central place such as harems and leks; Crichton & Krutzsch, 2000). These movements within human‐modified ecosystems must be better understood from an ecological and epidemiological perspective.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…HIGH olive farms). In fact, the availability of suitable roosts is expected to be particularly relevant for activity timing in spring, mainly because during this season bats tend to restrict their movements to areas close to maternity sites or nursery colonies (Schloesing et al., 2020). In close agreement with this hypothesis, previous studies in the same study region suggest that olive farms support low levels of bat activity (including P. kuhlii ), regardless of their structural complexity (Herrera et al., 2015).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Variation among individuals is important for maintaining diverse seed dispersal and pollination roles at the population level (Zwolak, 2018;Schupp et al, 2019). To our knowledge, intra-specific or intra-population variation in pteropodids has only been described for movement distances, although the independent movement trajectories that individuals from a single roost display (e.g., Tsoar, 2011;Harten et al, 2020;Toledo et al, 2020;Welbergen et al, 2020) could mean considerable variation in foraging choices as well (e.g., Scholesing et al, 2020). Future studies might reveal broad variation in food choice, seed dispersal, and pollination among individuals.…”
Section: Intra-specific Variation In Ecological Functionmentioning
confidence: 99%