Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

Diet in a bat assemblage in Atlantic Forest in southeastern Brazil

  • Research Article
  • Published:
Tropical Ecology Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Bats perform important ecological functions as consequence of their diet. Food choice is associated with body size and morphology, and therefore, with taxonomic relationships. Here we describe the diet of bats and test for associations between diet and body mass or phylogeny. Bats were captured in mist nets in Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil. We collected fecal samples and identified food items from feces. We used cluster analysis to test for associations between diet and body mass or phylogeny. A total of 245 bats were caught in five families, 20 genera and 29 species, and from which we gathered 134 fecal samples. With an average of 5.2 fecal samples (1–28) per species, we identified 26 taxa of food items, which included pollen, fruits of 11 species of plants, four orders of insects and a single vertebrate. Bats were divided into six main groups (guilds) based on diet: frugivore, frugivore-insectivore, insectivore, insectivore-frugivore, insectivore-nectarivore and hematophagous. Guilds vary in the number of species that belong to each and there were differences in the proportion of consumption of each type of food item and/or the different consumption of specific items within the same group. Body mass was not a good indicator of diet, but bat size can play an important role in resource partitioning. Diet is more associated with phylogeny, although taxonomic relationship is not a deterministic indicator of food habits. Some taxonomic groups seem more conservative than others, while the family Phyllostomidae is characterized by a great diet diversification among its representatives.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1
Fig. 2

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Ackerman BB, Lindzey FG, Hemker TP (1984) Cougar food habits in southern Utah. J Wildl Manag 48:147–155

    Google Scholar 

  • Aguirre LF, Herrel A, van Damme R, Matthysen E (2003) The implications of food hardness for diet in bats. Funct Ecol 17:201–212. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2435.2003.00721.x

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Althoff SL (2007) A comunidade de quirópteros, sua biologia e ecologia no Parque Natural Municipal Nascentes do Garcia, Estado de Santa Catarina, Brasil. PhD Dissertation. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre. https://lume.ufrgs.br/bitstream/handle/10183/12000/000615510.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

  • Alvares CA, Stape JL, Sentelhas PC, Gonçalves JLM, Sparovek G (2014) Köppen’s climate classification map for Brazil. Meteorol Z 22:711–728. https://doi.org/10.1127/0941-2948/2013/0507

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Alvarez J, Willig MR, Jones JK Jr, Webster D (1991) Glossophaga soricina. Mamm Species 379:1–7

    Google Scholar 

  • Arias E, Cadenillas R, Pacheco V (2009) Dieta de murciélagos nectarívoros del Parque Nacional Cerros de Amotape, Tumbes. Rev Peru Biol 16:187–190

    Google Scholar 

  • Batista CB, Pereira AD, Reis NR, Peracchi AL (2017) Subfamília Carolliinae. In: Reis NR, Peracchi AL, Batista CB, Lima IP, Pereira AD (eds) História Natural dos Morcegos Brasileiros: chave de identificação de espécies. Technical Books, Rio de Janeiro, pp 190–195

    Google Scholar 

  • Becker NI, Encarnação JA, Kalko EKV, Tschapka M (2012) The effects of reproductive state on digestive efficiency in three sympatric bat species of the same guild. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 162:386–390. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpa.2012.04.021

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Bengis RG, Kock RA, Fischer J (2002) Infectious animal diseases: the wildlife/livestock interface. Scientific Tec Rev Off Int des Epizooties 21:53–65

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Bianconi GV, Pedro WA (2007) Família Vespertilionidae. In: Reis NR, Peracchi AL, Pedro WA, Lima IP (eds) Morcegos do Brasil. Editora da Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, pp 167–196

    Google Scholar 

  • Bianconi GV, Pedro WA (2017) Subfamília Myotinae. In: Reis NR, Peracchi AL, Batista CB, Lima IP, Pereira AD (eds) História Natural dos Morcegos Brasileiros: chave de identificação de espécies. Technical Books, Rio de Janeiro, pp 352–366

    Google Scholar 

  • Bloch CP, Stevens RD, Willig MR (2011) Body size and resource competition in New World bats: a test of spatial scaling laws. Ecography 33:1–9

    Google Scholar 

  • Brandl SJ, Robbins WD, Bellwood DR (2015) Exploring the nature of ecological specialization in a coral reef fish community: morphology, diet and foraging microhabitat use. Proc Biol Sci 282:20151147. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.1147

    Article  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Carvalho CT (1961) Sobre hábitos alimentares de Phillostomídeos (Mammalia, Chiroptera). Rev Biol Trop 9:53–60

    Google Scholar 

  • Carvalho F, Cruz-Neto AP, Zocche JJ (2008) Ampliação da descrição da dieta de Mimon Bennettii (Phyllotomidae, Phyllotominae) no sul do Brasil. Chiroptera Neotropical 14:403–408

    Google Scholar 

  • Castellanos AX, Banegas GA (2015) Vampire bats bite lowland tapirs in Yasuni National Park, Ecuador. Tapir Conserv 24:1–7. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22648

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Castro IJ, Costa-Campos CE (2017) New record of anuran predation by Trachops cirrhosus (Mammalia, Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) in a varzea forest in the estuary of the Amazon River, Eastern Amazon. Biota Amazônica 7:108–109. https://doi.org/10.18561/2179-5746/biotaamazonia.v7n1p108-109

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Charles-Dominique P (1986) Inter-relations between frugivorous vertebrates and pioneer plants: Cecropia, birds and bats in French Guyana. In: Estrada A, Fleming TH (eds) Frugivores and seed dispersal. Junk Publishers, Dordrecht, pp 119–135

    Google Scholar 

  • Cramer MJ, Willig MR, Jones C (2001) Trachops cirrhosus. Mamm Species 656:1–6. https://doi.org/10.1644/1545-1410(2001)656%3c0001:TC%3e2.0.CO;2

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Cruz-Neto AP, Garland T Jr, Abe AS (2001) Diet, phylogeny, and basal metabolic rate in Phyllostomid bats. Zoology 104:49–58. https://doi.org/10.1078/0944-2006-00006

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Dinerstein E (1986) Reproductive ecology of fruit bats and the seasonality of fruit production in a costa rican cloud forest. Biotropica 18:307–318

    Google Scholar 

  • Dumont ER, Dávalos LM, Goldberg A, Santana SE, Rex K, Voigt CC (2012) Morphological innovation, diversification and invasion of a new adaptive zone. Proc Royal Soc Biol Sci 279:1797–1805. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2011.2005

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Erlinge S (1968) Food studies on captive otters Lutra lutra L. Nordic Soc Oikos 19:259–270

    Google Scholar 

  • Fabian ME, Gregorin R (2007) Família Molossidae. In: Reis NR, Peracchi AL, Pedro WA, Lima IP (eds) Morcegos do Brasil. Editora da Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, pp 149–165

    Google Scholar 

  • Fenton MB (1982) Echolocation calls and patterns of hunting and habitat use of bats (Microchiroptera) from Chillagoe, North Queensland. Australian J Zool 30:417–425. https://doi.org/10.1071/ZO9820417

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ferracioli P, Reis NR, Peracchi AL, Pereira AD (2017a) Subfamília Micronicterinae. In: Reis NR, Peracchi AL, Batista CB, Lima IP, Pereira AD (eds) História Natural dos Morcegos Brasileiros: chave de identificação de espécies. Technical Books, Rio de Janeiro, pp 92–108

    Google Scholar 

  • Ferracioli P, Tavares VC, Reis NR, Peracchi AL (2017b) Subfamília Phyllotominae. In: Reis NR, Peracchi AL, Batista CB, Lima IP, Pereira AD (eds) História Natural dos Morcegos Brasileiros: chave de identificação de espécies. Technical Books, Rio de Janeiro, pp 120–149

    Google Scholar 

  • Fleming TH (1986) Opportunism versus specialization: the evolution of feeding strategies in frugivorous bats. In: Estrada A, Fleming TH (eds) Frugivores and seed dispersal. Dr W. Junk Publishers, Dordrecht, pp 105–118. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4812-9_11

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Fleming TH (1991) The relationship between body size, diet and habitat use in frugivorous bats, genus Carollia (Phyllostomidae). J Mammal 72:493–501

    Google Scholar 

  • Fleming TH, Sosa VJ (1994) Effects of nectarivorous and frugivorous mammals on reproductive success of plants. J Mammal 75:845–851. https://doi.org/10.2307/1382466

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Fleming TH, Geiselman C, Kkress WJ (2009) The evolution of bat pollination: a phylogenetic perspective. Ann Bot 104:1017–1043. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcp197

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Freeman PW (1988) Frugivorous and animalivorous bats (Microchiroptera): dental and cranial adaptations. Biol J Lin Soc 33:249–272. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.1988.tb00811.x

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Freeman PW, Lemen CA (2007) Using scissors to quantify hardness of insects: do bats select for size or hardness? J Zool 271:469–476. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2006.00231.x

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • FSOSMA, INPE (2019) Atlas dos Remanescentes Florestais da Mata Atlântica: Período 2017-2018. Fundação SOS Mata Atlântica & Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, São Paulo. https://www.sosma.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Atlas-mata-atlantica_17-18.pdf

  • Fuchs EJ, Lobo JA, Quesada M (2003) Effects of forest fragmentacion and flowering phenology on the reproductive success and mating patterns of the tropical dry forest tree Pachira quinata. Conserv Biol 17:149–157. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1523-1739.2003.01140.x

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Galetti M, Pedrosa F, Keuroghlian A, Sazima I (2016) Liquid lunch - vampire bats feed on invasive feral pigs and other ungulates. Frontiers Ecol Environ 14:505–506. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.1431/suppinfo

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gnocchi AP, Srbek-Araujo AC (2017) Common Vampire Bat (Desmodus rotundus) feeding on Lowland Tapir (Tapirus terrestris) in an Atlantic Forest remmant in southeastern Brazil. Biota Neotrop 17:e20170326. https://doi.org/10.1590/1676-0611-bn-2017-0326

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gonçalves F, Bovendorp RS, Beca G, Bello C, Costa-Pereira R, Muylaert RL et al (2018) Atlantic mammal traits: a dataset of morphological traits of mammals in the Atlantic Forest of South America. Ecology 99:498

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • González EM, Barquez R (2016) Epitesicus diminutus (errata version published in 2017). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016, Gland. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T7922A22118742.en

  • Gould E (1955) The feeding efficiency of insectivorous bats. J Mammal 36:399–407. https://doi.org/10.2307/1375682

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Greenhall AM (1988) Feeding behavior. In: Greenhall AM, Schmidt U (eds) Natural history of vampire bats. CRC Press, Boca Raton, pp 111–132

    Google Scholar 

  • Hernández-Montero JR, Sosa VJ (2016) Reprodutive Biology of Pachira aquatica Aubl. (Malvaceae: Bombacoideae): a tropical tree pollinated by bats, sphingid moths and honey bees. Plants Species Biol 31:125–134. https://doi.org/10.1111/1442-1984.12096

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hodgkison R, Balding S, Zubaid A, Kunz TH (2004) Temporal variation in the relative abundance of fruit bats (Megachiroptera: Pteropodidae) in relation to the availability of food in a Lowland Malaysian Rain Forest. Biotropica 36:522–533. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-7429.2004.tb00347.x

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hoppe JPM, Pimenta VT, Ditchfield AD (2014) First occurrence of the recently described Patricia’s Disk-winged bat Thyroptera wynneae Chiroptera Thyropteridae in Espírito Santo, southeastern Brazil. Check List 10:645–647. https://doi.org/10.15560/10.3.645

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • INMET (2018) Banco de dados meteorológicos para ensino e pesquisa. Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia, Brasília. http://www.inmet.gov.br/portal/index.php?r=bdmep/bdmep

  • Janzen DH (1979) How to be a fig. Annu Rev Ecol Evol Syst 10:13–51

    Google Scholar 

  • Jesus RM, Rolim SG (2005) Fitossociologia da Mata Atlântica. Boletim Técnico da Sociedade de Investigações Florestais 19:1–149

    Google Scholar 

  • Johnston DS, Fenton MB (2001) Individual and population-level variability in diets of Pallid Bats (Antrozous pallidus). J Mammal 82:362–373. https://doi.org/10.1644/1545-1542(2001)082%3c0362:IAPLVI%3e2.0.CO;2

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Jones PL, Hämsch F, Page RA, Kalko EKV, O’Mara MT (2017) Foraging and roosting behaviour of the fringe-lipped bat, Trachops cirrhosus, on Barro Colorado Island, Panamá. Acta Chiropterologica 19:337–346. https://doi.org/10.3161/15081109ACC2017.19.2.010

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kierulff MCM, Avelar LHS, Ferreira MES, Povoa KF, Bérnils RS (2014) Reserva Natural Vale: história e aspectos físicos. Ciência & Ambiente 49:7–40

    Google Scholar 

  • Kunz TH (1974) Feeding ecology of a temperate insectivorous bat (Myotis velifer). Ecology 55:693–711. https://doi.org/10.2307/1934408

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lima MD (1995) Estrutura morfométrica dos morcegos do Brasil Central. MSc Dissertation. Universidade de., Brasília, Brasília

    Google Scholar 

  • Lima IP, Gregorin R (2007) Família Thyropteridae. In: Reis NR, Peracchi AL, Pedro WA, Lima IP (eds) Morcegos do Brasil. Editora da Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, pp 139–144

    Google Scholar 

  • Lima IP, Nogueira MR, Monteiro LR, Peracchi AL (2016) Frugivoria e dispersão de sementes por morcegos na Reserva Natural Vale, sudeste do Brasil. In: Rolim SG, Menezes LFT, Srbek-Araujo AC (eds) Floresta Atlântica de Tabuleiro: Diversidade e endemismo na Reserva Natural Vale. The Nature Conservancy, Symbiosis and Amplo, Belo Horizonte, pp 433–452

    Google Scholar 

  • Lobo J, Solís S, Fuchs EJ, Quesada M (2013) Individual and temporal variation in outcrossing rates and pollen flow patterns in Ceiba pentandra (Malvaceae: Bombacoideae). Biotropica 45:185–194. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.12001

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Marinho-Filho JS (1991) The coexistence of two frugivorous bat species and the phenology of their food plants in Brazil. J Trop Ecol 7:59–67. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467400005083

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Marinho-Filho JS, Sazima I (1989) Activity patterns of six phillostomid bat species in southeastern Brazil. Rev Bras Biol 49:777–782

    Google Scholar 

  • Martins MPE, Torres JM, dos Anjos EAC (2014) Dieta de morcegos frugívoros em remanescentes de Cerrado em Bandeirantes, Mato Grosso do Sul. Biotemas 27:129–135. https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7925.2014v27n2p129

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Mayen F (2003) Haematophagous bats in Brazil, their role in rabies transmission, impact on public health, livestock industry and alternatives to an indiscriminate reduction of bat population. J Vet Med B 50:469–472. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1439-0450.2003.00713.x

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • McNab BK (1992) A statistical analysis of mammalian rates of metabolism. Funct Ecol 6:672–679

    Google Scholar 

  • Mikich SB (2002) A dieta dos morcegos frugívoros (Mammalia, Chiroptera, Phyllostimidae) de um pequeno remanescente de Floresta Estacional Semidecidual do sul do Brasil. Rev Bras Zool 19:239–249

    Google Scholar 

  • Mikich SB, Bianconi GV (2005) Potencializando o papel dos morcegos frugívoros na recuperação de áreas degradadas. Pesquisa Florestal Brasileira 51:155–164

    Google Scholar 

  • Mikich SB, Bianconi GV, Maia BHLNS, Teixeira SD (2003) Attraction of the fruit-eating bat Carollia perspicillata to Piper gaudichaudianum essential oil. J Chem Ecol 29:2379–2383. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026290022642

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Mikich SB, Bianconi GV, Parolin LC, Almeida A (2015) Serviços ambientais prestados por morcegos frugívoros na recuperação de áreas degradadas. In: Parron LM, Garcia JR, Oliveira EB, Brown GG, Prado RB (eds) Serviços ambientais em sistemas agrícolas e florestais do bioma Mata Atlântica. Embrapa, Basília, pp 248–256

    Google Scholar 

  • Muscarella R, Fleming TH (2007) The role of frugivorous bats in Tropical Forest Succession. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 82:573–590. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-185X.2007.00026.x

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Nogueira MR, Peracchi AL, Moratelli R (2007) Subfamília Phyllotominae. In: Reis NR, Peracchi AL, Pedro WA, Lima IP (eds) Morcegos do Brasil. Editora da Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, pp 61–98

    Google Scholar 

  • Oliveira GR (2015) Convivência entre duas espécies simpátricas de Phyllotomidae (Mammalia, Chiroptera) em um fragmento florestal de Mata Atlântica no norte do Paraná, sul do Brasil. MSc Dissertation. Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina

  • Oliveira HFM, Pereira B (2016) Guia de sementes dispersas por morcegos (Mammalia: Chiroptera) da América Latina. Universidade de Brasília and Queen Mary University of London, Brasília, pp 1–36

    Google Scholar 

  • Passos FC, Silva WR, Pedro WA, Bonln MR (2003) Frugivoria em morcegos (Mammalia, Chiroptera) no Parque Estadual Intervales, sudeste do Brasil. Rev Bras Zool 20:511–517

    Google Scholar 

  • Pedro WA, Passos FC (1995) Occurrence and food habits of some bat species from the Linhares Forest Reserve, Espírito Santo Brazil. Bat Res News 36:1–2

    Google Scholar 

  • Pedro WA, Taddei VA (1997) Taxonomic assemblage of bats from Panga Reserve, southeastern Brazil: abundance patterns and trophic relations in the Phyllostomidae (Chiroptera). Bol Mus Biol Mello Leitão 6:3–21

    Google Scholar 

  • Peracchi AL, Albuquerque ST (1993) Quirópteros do município de Linhares, estado do Espírito Santo, Brasil (Mammalia, Chiroptera). Rev Bras Biol 53:575–581

    Google Scholar 

  • Pimenta VT (2013) Segregação de recursos por diferentes espécies de morcegos (Mammalia: Chiroptera) na Reserva Biológica de Sooretama. MSc Dissertation. Universidade Federal do Espírito., Santo, Vitória. http://repositorio.ufes.br/bitstream/10/3846/1/tese_6382_.pdf

  • Peracchi AL, Albuquerque ST (1993) Quirópteros do município de Linhares, estado do Espírito Santo, Brasil (Mammalia, Chiroptera). Rev Bras Biol 53:575–581

    Google Scholar 

  • Pinto CGC (2010) Assembleia de morcegos (Mammalia: Chiroptera) e suas interações com plantas quiropterofílicas no Parque Nacional Cavernas do Peruaçu, norte de Minas Gerais. MSc Dissertation. Universidade Federal de Lavras, Lavras. http://repositorio.ufla.br/bitstream/1/5101/1/DISSERTA%C3%87%C3%83O_Assembl%C3%A9ia%20de%20morcegos%20%28Mammalia%20Chiroptera%29%20e%20suas%20intera%C3%A7%C3%B5es%20com%20plantas%20quiropter%C3%B3filas%20no%20Parque%20Nacional%20Cavernas%20do%20Perua%C3%A7u%2C%20norte%20de%20Min.pdf

  • Pinto D, Ortêncio-Filho H (2006) Dieta de quatro espécies de filostomídeos frugívoros (Chiroptera, Mammalia) do Parque Municipal do Cinturão Verde de Cianorte, Paraná, Brasil. Chiroptera Neotropical 12:274–279

    Google Scholar 

  • Rafael JA, Melo GAR, Carvalho CJB, Casari SA, Constantino R (2012) Insetos do Brasil: diversidade e taxonomia. Holos Editora, Ribeirão Preto

    Google Scholar 

  • Ragusa-Netto J (2002) Fruiting phenology and consumption by birds in Ficus calyptroceras (Miq.) Miq. (Moraceae). Brazilian J Biol 62:339–346. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1519-69842002000200018

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Ramírez N, Nassar JM, Salas G, Briceño H, Valera L, Garay V (2015) Reconsideración de la biología floral y polinización de Pachira quinata (Jacq.) W. Alverson (Malvaceae Bombacoideae). Acta Bot Venez 38:19–37

    Google Scholar 

  • Reis NR, Peracchi AL, Pedro WA, Lima IP (2007) Morcegos do Brasil. Editora da Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina

    Google Scholar 

  • Reis NR, Fregonezi MN, Peracchi AL, Shibatta OA (2013) Morcegos do Brasil: guia de campo. Technical Books, Rio de Janeiro

    Google Scholar 

  • Reis NR, Peracchi AL, Batista CB, Lima IP, Pereira AD (2017) História Natural dos Morcegos Brasileiros: chave de identificação de espécies. Technical Books, Rio de Janeiro

    Google Scholar 

  • Rocha R, Silva I, Reis AM, Rosa GM (2012) Another frog on the menu: predation of Trachops cirrhosus (Chiroptera: Phyllotomidae) upon Osteocephalus oophagus (Anura: Hylidae). Chiroptera Neotropical 18:1136–1138

    Google Scholar 

  • Rocha R, Gordo M, López-Baucells A (2015) Completing the menu addition of Scinax cruentommus and Scinax cf. garbei (Anura: Hylidae) to the diet of Trachops cirrhosus (Chiroptera Phyllostomidae) in Central Amazon. North-Western J Zool 12:199–204

    Google Scholar 

  • Sampaio EM, Kalko EKV, Bernard E, Rodríguez-Herrera B, Handley CO (2003) A biodiversity assessment of bats (Chiroptera) in a tropical lowland rainforest of Central Amazonia, including methodological and conservation considerations. Stud Neotrop Fauna Environ 38:17–31

    Google Scholar 

  • Sánchez-Cordero V, Botello F, Magaña-Cota G, Iglesias J (2011) Vampire bats, Desmodus rotundus, feeding on white-tailed deer, Odocoileus virginianus. Mammalia 75:91–92. https://doi.org/10.1515/mamm.2010.065

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sánchez-Casas N, Alvarez T (2000) Palinofagia de los murciélagos del género Glossophaga (Mammalia: Chiroptera) en México. Acta Zool Mex 81:23–62

    Google Scholar 

  • Santana SE, Grosse IR, Dumont ER (2012) Dietary hardenss, loading beharior, and the evolution of skull form in bats. Evolution 66:2587–2598. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01615.x

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Santos M, Aguirre LF, Vázquez LB, Ortega J (2003) Phyllostomus hastatus. Mamm Species 722:1–6. https://doi.org/10.1644/722

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sartore ER, Tavares VC, Moras LM (2017) Família Molossidae. In: Reis NR, Peracchi AL, Batista CB, Lima IP, Pereira AD (eds) História Natural dos Morcegos Brasileiros: chave de identificação de espécies. Technical Books, Rio de Janeiro, pp 352–366

    Google Scholar 

  • Sazima M, Fabían ME, Sazima I (1982) Polinização de Luehea speciosa (Tiliaceae) por Glossophaga soricina (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae). Rev Bras Biol 42:505–513

    Google Scholar 

  • Silva SP, Peracchi AL (1995) Observação da visita de morcego (Chiroptera) as flores de Pseudobambax grandiflorum (Cav.) A. Robyns. Rev Bras Zool 12:859–865. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0101-81751995000400015

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Srbek-Araujo AC, Rocha MF, Peracchi AL (2014) A mastofauna da Reserva Natural Vale, Linhares, Espírito Santo, Brasil. Ciência & Ambiente 49:153–167

    Google Scholar 

  • Srbek-Araujo AC, Mendes SL, Chiarello AG (2015) Jaguar (Panthera onca Linnaeus, 1758) roadkill in Brazilian Atlantic Forest and implications for species conservation. Brazilian J Biol 75:581–586. https://doi.org/10.1590/1519-6984.17613

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Statsoft (2017) Statistica: data analysis software system (version 12.5). StatSoft, Tulsa. https://www.statsoft.com

  • Uieda W, Bred A (2016) Bats: neglected agents of sustainability. Sustentabilidade em Debate 7:186–209

    Google Scholar 

  • Uieda W, Sato TM, Carvalho MC, Bonato V (2007) Fruits as unusual food items of the carnivorous bat Chrotopterus auritus (Mammalia, Phyllotomidae) from southeastern Brazil. Rev Bras Zool 24:844–847

    Google Scholar 

  • Van Cakenberghe V, Herrel A, Aguirre LF (2002) Evolutionary relationships between cranial shape and diet in bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera). In: Aerts P, D’Août K, Herrel A, Van Damme R (eds) Topics in functional and ecological vertebrate morphology. Shaker Publishing, Maastricht, pp 205–236

    Google Scholar 

  • Wilson DE (1971) Food habits of Micromicteris hirsuta (Chiroptera: Phillotomidae). Mammalia 35:107–110. https://doi.org/10.1515/mamm.1971.35.1.107

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wilson DE (1973) Bat faunas: a trophic comparison. Syst Zool 22:14–29. https://doi.org/10.2307/2412374

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wilson DE, Laval RK (1974) Myotis nigricans. Mamm Species 38:1–3

    Google Scholar 

  • Yamamoto LF, Kinoshita LS, Martins FR (2007) Síndromes de polinização e de dispersão em fragmentos da Floresta Estacional Semidecídua Montana, SP, Brasil. Acta Bot Bras 21:553–573

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgements

Ariana P. Gnocchi thanks the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior–Brazil (CAPES) for the postgraduate scholarship (Finance Code 001). Suéli Huber thanks the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e Inovação do Espírito Santo–Brazil (FAPES) for the postgraduate scholarship. We thank Vale S.A./Instituto Ambiental Vale for the support in field activities. Ana Carolina Srbek-Araujo is grateful to the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e Inovação do Espírito Santo (FAPES 0607/2015) which sponsored the research of the Laboratório de Ecologia e Conservação de Biodiversidade (LECBio).

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Laboratório de Ecologia e Conservação de Biodiversidade (LECBio), Programa de Pós-graduação em Ecologia de Ecossistemas, Universidade Vila Velha – UVV, Rua Comissário José Dantas de Melo, nº 21, Bairro Boa Vista, Vila Velha, Espírito Santo, CEP 29102-920,, Brazil

    Ariana P. Gnocchi, Suéli Huber & Ana Carolina Srbek-Araujo

  2. Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciência Animal, Universidade Vila Velha – UVV, Vila Velha, Espírito Santo, Brazil

    Ana Carolina Srbek-Araujo

  3. Instituto SerraDiCal de Pesquisa e Conservação, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

    Ana Carolina Srbek-Araujo

Authors
  1. Ariana P. Gnocchi
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Suéli Huber
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Ana Carolina Srbek-Araujo
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Ana Carolina Srbek-Araujo.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Gnocchi, A.P., Huber, S. & Srbek-Araujo, A.C. Diet in a bat assemblage in Atlantic Forest in southeastern Brazil. Trop Ecol 60, 389–404 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42965-019-00042-z

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Revised:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42965-019-00042-z

Keywords

Search

Navigation