A first assessment of home range and foraging behaviour of the African long-tongued bat Megaloglossus woermanni (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) in a heterogeneous landscape within the Lama Forest Reserve, Benin

• Autorzy: Weber N. , Kalko E. K. V. , Fahr J.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

We investigated spatial use and foraging behaviour of the nectarivorous African long-tongued bat, Megaloglossus woermanni (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae), in the Lama Forest Reserve, southern Benin, West Africa. We monitored movement and activity patterns of two males and two females that were fitted with position-sensitive radio transmitters for five to nine nights within a three-month study period. The study site comprised the central patch of relatively undisturbed forest (‘Noyau Central’), and a mosaic of orchards, agroforestry plantations, and degraded forests surrounding the central patch. Spatial use of M. woermanni was characterized by small home ranges and high site-fidelity. Mean home range sizes (minimum convex polygon) were larger in females (139.0 and 146.8 ha) than in males (99.8 and 102.9 ha). Throughout the study period, long-tongued bats were frequently observed visiting flowers of cultivated bananas. The mean foraging areas (95% density kernel) of females (39.0 and 109.4 ha) were much larger than in males (12.3 and 14.1 ha). Difference in core areas (50% density kernel) between the sexes was less marked (both females: 6.8 ha, males: 2.7 and 2.9 hectares). Core areas constituted only a small part of home ranges (2.6-4.9%). Large segments of the home ranges were only used for commuting flights between discrete resource patches. Our study provides, for the first time, information on home ranges and foraging behaviour of the sole obligate nectar-drinking bat in Africa.

• Wydawca: -
• Czasopismo: Acta Chiropterologica
• Rocznik: 2009
• Tom: 11
• Numer: 2
• Opis fizyczny: p.317-329,fig.,ref.

Twórcy

autor

Weber N.

• Institute of Experimental Ecology (Bio 3), Ulm University, Albert-Einstein Allee 11, D-89069 Ulm, Germany

autor

Kalko E. K. V.

• Institute of Experimental Ecology (Bio 3), Ulm University, Albert-Einstein Allee 11, D-89069 Ulm, Germany
• Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama

autor

Fahr J.

• Institute of Experimental Ecology (Bio 3), Ulm University, Albert-Einstein Allee 11, D-89069 Ulm, Germany

Bibliografia

• Aldridge, H. D. J. N., and R. M. Brigham. 1988. Load carrying and maneuverability in an insectivorous bat: a test of the 5% ‘rule’ of radio-telemetry. Journal of Mammalogy, 69: 379-382.
• Álvarez, Y., J. Juste B., E. Tabarés, A. Garrido-Pertierra, C. Ibáñez, and J. M. Bautista. 1999. Molecular phylogeny and morphological homoplasy in fruitbats. Molecular and Biological Evolution, 16: 1061-1067.
• Andersen, K. 1912. Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the collection of the British Museum. Volume 1: Megachiroptera, 2nd edition. British Museum of Natural History, London, 854 pp.
• Anthony, E. L. P. 1988. Age determination in bats. Pp. 47-58, in Ecological and behavioral methods for the study of bats (T. H. Kunz, ed.). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., xxii + 533 pp.
• Bartels, W., B. S. Law, and F. Geiser. 1998. Daily torpor and energetics in a tropical mammal, the northern blossom-bat Macroglossus minimus (Megachiroptera). Journal of Comparative Physiology, 168B1: 233-239.
• Bergmans, W., and N. Van Strien. 2004. Systematic notes on a collection of bats from Malawi. I. Megachiroptera: Epomophorinae and Rousettinae (Mammalia, Chiroptera). Acta Chiropterologica, 6: 249-268.
• Bernard, E., and M. B. Fenton. 2003. Bat mobility and roosts in a fragmented landscape in central Amazonia, Brazil. Biotropica, 35: 262-277.
• Bonaccorso, F. J., and B. K. McNab. 1997. Plasticity of energetics in blossom bats (Pteropodidae): Impact on distribution. Journal of Mammalogy, 78: 1073-1088.
• Bonaccorso, F. J., J. R. Winkelmann, E. R. Dumont, and K. Thibault. 2002. Home range of Dobsonia minor (Pteropodidae): a solitary, foliage-roosting fruit bat in Papua New Guinea. Biotropica, 34: 127-135.
• Bonaccorso, F. J., J. R. Winkelmann, and D. G. P. Byrnes. 2005. Home range, territoriality, and flight time budgets in the black-bellied fruit bat, Melonycteris melanops (Pteropodidae). Journal of Mammalogy, 86: 931-936.
• Bonaccorso, F. J., J. R. Winkelmann, D. Shin, C. I. Agrawal, N. Aslami, C. Bonney, A. Hsu, P. E. Jekielek, A. K. Knox, S. J. Kopach, T. D. Jennings, J. R. Lasky, S. A. Menesale, J. H. Richards, J. A. Rutland, A. K. Sessa, L. Zhaurova, and T. H. Kunz. 2006. Evidence for exploitative competition: Comparative foraging behavior and roosting ecology of short-tailed fruit bats (Phyllostomidae). Biotropica, 39: 249-256.
• Brosset, A. 1966. Les Chiroptères du Haut-Ivindo (Gabon). Biologica Gabonica, 2: 47-86.
• Burt, W. H. 1943. Territoriality and home range concepts as applied to mammals. Journal of Mammalogy, 24: 346-352.
• Campbell, P., A. Zubaid, A. M. Adnan, and T. H. Kunz. 2006. Resource distribution and social structure in harem-forming Old World fruit bats: variations on a polygynous theme. Animal Behaviour, 72: 687-698.
• Coburn, D. K., and F. Geiser. 1998. Seasonal changes in energetics and torpor patterns in the subtropical blossom-bat Syconycteris australis (Megachiroptera). Oecologia, 113: 467-473.
• Colgan, D. J., and P. da Costa. 2002. Megachiropteran evolution studied with 12S rDNA and c-mos DNA sequences. Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 9: 3-22.
• De Solla, S. R., R. Bonduriansky, and R. J. Brooks. 1999. Eliminating autocorrelation reduces biological relevance of home range estimates. Journal of Animal Ecology, 68: 2, 221-234.
• Djossa, B. A., B. A. Sinsin, E. K. V. Kalko, and J. Fahr. 2008. Inventory of bat species of Niaouli Forest, Bénin, and its bearing on the significance of the Dahomey Gap as a zoogeographic barrier. African Bat Conservation News, 15: 4-6.y Gap as a zoogeographic barrier. African Bat Conservation News, 15: 4-6.
• Dobat, K., and T. Peikert-Holle. 1985. Blüten und Fledermäuse. Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 370 pp.
• Elangovan, V., G. Marimuthu, and T. H. Kunz. 2001. Temporal patterns of resource use by the short-nosed fruit bat, Cynopterus sphinx (Megachiroptera: Pteropodidae) Journal of Mammalogy, 82: 161-165.
• Fleming, T. H., and E. R. Heithaus. 1986. Seasonal foraging behavior of the frugivorous bat Carollia perspicillata. Journal of Mammalogy, 67: 660-671.
• Fleming, T. H., and N. Muchhala. 2008. Nectar-feeding bird and bat niches in two worlds: Pantropical comparisons of vertebrate pollination systems. Journal of Biogeography, 35: 764-780.
• Fujita, M. S., and M. D. Tuttle. 1991. Flying foxes (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae): threatened animals of key ecological and economic importance. Conservation Biology, 5: 455—463.
• Ganzhorn, J. U., and J. Schmid. 1998. Different population dynamics of Microcebus murinus in primary and secondary deciduous dry forests of Madagascar. International Journal of Primatology, 19: 785-796.
• Gautestad, A. O., and I. Mysterud. 1995. The home range ghost. Oikos, 74: 195-204.
• Gentry, A. H. 1974. Flowering phenology and diversity in tropical Bignoniaceae. Biotropica, 6: 64—68.
• Giannini, N. P., and N. B. Simmons. 2003. A phylogeny of megachiropteran bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) based on direct optimization analysis of one nuclear and four mitochondrial genes. Cladistics, 19: 496-511.
• Giannini, N. P., and N. B. Simmons. 2005. Conflict and congruence in a combined DNA-morphology analysis of megachiropteran bat relationships (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Pteropodidae). Cladistics, 21: 411—437.
• Grünmeier, R. 1990. Pollination by bats and non-flying mammals of the African tree Parkia bicolor (Mimosaceae). Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden, 55: 83-104.
• Grünmeier, R. 1993. Bestäubung der Fabaceae Mucuna flagellipes durch Flughunde in Kamerun. Pp. 29-39, in Animal-plant interactions in tropical environments (W. Barthlott, C. M. Naumann, K. Schmidt-Loske, and K.-L. Schuchmann, eds.). Museum A. Koenig, Bonn, Germany, 227 pp.
• Henry, M., and E. K. V. Kalko. 2007. Foraging strategy and breeding constraints of Rhinophylla pumilio (Phyllostomidae) in the Amazon lowlands. Journal of Mammalogy, 88: 81-93.
• Hollar, L. J., and M. S. Springer. 1997. Old World fruitbat phylogeny: evidence for convergent evolution and an endemic African clade. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 94: 5716-5721.
• Hood, C. S. 1989. Comparative morphology and evolution of the female reproductive tract in macroglossine bats (Mammalia, Chiroptera). Journal of Morphology, 199: 207-222.
• Hooge, P. N., and B. Eichenlaub. 2000. Animal Movement extension to ArcView, ver. 2.0. Alaska Science Center — Biological Science Office, U.S. Geological Survey, Anchorage, AK, USA.
• Horner, M. A., T. H. Fleming, and C. T. Sahley. 1998. Foraging behaviour and energetics of a nectar-feeding bat, Leptonycteris curasoae (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae). Journal of Zoology (London), 244: 575-586.
• Kulzer, E., and R. Storf. 1980. Schlaf-Lethargie bei dem afrikanischen Langzungenflughund Megaloglossus woermanni Pagenstecher, 1885. Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde, 45: 23-29.
• Law, B. S. 1992. The maintenance nitrogen requirements of the Queensland blossom bat (Syconycteris australis) on a sugar/pollen diet: is nitrogen a limiting resource? Physiological Zoology, 65: 634-648.
• Law, B. S. 1993. Roosting and foraging ecology of the Queensland blossom bat (Syconycteris australis) in north-eastern New South Wales: flexibility in response to seasonal variation. Wildlife Research, 20: 419-431.
• Law, B. S. 1996. Residency and site fidelity of marked populations of the common blossom bat Syconycteris australis in relation to the availability of Banksia inflorescences in New South Wales, Australia. Oikos, 77: 447-458.
• Law, B. S., and M. Lean. 1999. Common blossom bats (Syconycteris australis) as pollinators in fragmented Australian tropical rainforest. Biological Conservation, 91: 201-212.
• Lobo, J. A., M. Quesada, and K. E. Stoner. 2005. Effects of pollination by bats on the mating system of Ceiba pentandra (Bombacaceae) populations in two tropical life zones in Costa Rica. American Journal of Botany, 92: 370-376.
• Meyer, C. F. J., M. Weinbeer, and E. K. V. Kalko. 2005. Home-range size and spacing patterns of Macrophyllum macrophyllum (Phyllostomidae) foraging over water. Journal of Mammalogy, 86: 587-598.
• Mitani, J. C., and P. S. Rodman. 1979. Territoriality: the relation of ranging pattern and home range size to defendability, with an analysis of territoriality among primate species. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 5: 241-251.
• Mohr, C. O. 1947. Table of equivalent populations of North American small mammals. American Midland Naturalist, 37: 223-249.
• Ostfeld, R. S. 1990. The ecology of territoriality in small mammals. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 5: 411-415.
• Pettersson, S. 2005. Bats and bat flowers in a West African rainforest community. PhD Dissertation, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden.
• Quesada, M., K. E. Stoner, J. A. Lobo, Y. Herrerías-Diego, C. Palacios-Guevara, M. A. Munguía-Rosas, K. A. O. Salazar, and V. Rosas-Guerrero. 2004. Effects of forest fragmentation on pollinator activity and consequences for plant reproductive success and mating patterns in bat-pollinated bombacaceous trees. Biotropica, 36: 131-138.
• Romagnoli, M. L., and M. S. Springer. 2000. Evolutionary relationships among Old World fruitbats (Megachiroptera: Pteropodidae) based on 12S rRNA, tRNA valine, and 16S rRNA gene sequences. Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 7: 259-284.
• Rooney, S. M., A. Wolfe, and T. J. Hayden. 1998. Autocorrelated data in telemetry studies: time to independence and the problem of behavioural effects. Mammal Review, 28: 89-98.
• Schoener, T. W. 1978. An empirically based estimate of home range. Theoretical Population Biology, 20: 281-325.
• Seaman, D. E., and R. A. Powell. 1996. An evaluation of the accuracy of kernel density estimators for home range analysis. Ecology, 77: 2075-2085.
• Simmons, N. B. 2005. Order Chiroptera. Pp. 312-529, in Mammal species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference, Volume 1, 3rd edition (D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder, eds.). John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, xxxviii + 743 pp.
• Specht, I. 2002. La forêt de la Lama, Bénin. SIG basé sur Landsat 7. Opuscula Biogeographica Basileensia, 2: 100 pp. + 16 maps.
• Start, A. N. 1974. The feeding biology in relation to food sources of nectarivorous bats. PhD Dissertation, Aberdeen University, Aberdeen, United Kingdom.
• Sterling, E. J., N. Nguyen, and P. J. Fashing. 2000. Spatial patterning in nocturnal prosimians: a review of methods and relevance to studies of sociality. American Journal of Primatology, 51: 3-19.
• Tschapka, M., E. B. Sperr, L. A. Caballero-Martínez, and R. A. Medellín. 2008. Diet and cranial morphology of Musonycteris harrisoni, a highly specialized nectar-feeding bat in western Mexico. Journal of Mammalogy, 89: 924-931.
• von Helversen, O. 1993. Adaptations of flowers to the pollination by glossophagine bats. Pp. 41-59, in Animal-plant interactions in tropical environments (W. Barthlott, C. M. Naumann, K. Schmidt-Loske, and K.-L. Schuchmann, eds.). Museum A. Koenig, Bonn, Germany, 227 pp.
• von Helversen, O., and Y. Winter. 2003. Glossophagine bats and their flowers: costs and benefits for plants and pollinators. Pp. 346-397, in Bat ecology (T. H. Kunz and M. B. Fenton, eds.). University of Chicago Press, Chicago, xxii + 779 pp.
• Watzke, S. 2006. Ressourcennutzung und Paarungssystem der nektarivoren Flughundart Macroglossus minimus (Pteropodidae: Macroglossinae) in West-Malaysia. PhD Thesis, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
• Weinbeer, M., and E. K. V. Kalko. 2004. Morphological characteristics predict alternate foraging strategy and microhabitat selection in the gleaning bat, Lampronycteris brachyotis (Phyllostomidae). Journal of Mammalogy, 85: 1116-1123.
• Winkelmann, J. R., F. J. Bonaccorso, and T. L. Strickler. 2000. Home range of the southern blossom bat, Syconycteris australis, in Papua New Guinea. Journal of Mammalogy, 81: 408-414.
• Winkelmann, J. R., F. J. Bonaccorso, E. E. Goedeke, and L. J. Ballock. 2003. Home range and territoriality in the least blossom bat, Macroglossus minimus, in Papua New Guinea. Journal of Mammalogy, 84: 561-570.
• Winter, Y, and O. von Helversen. 2001. Bats as pollinators: Foraging energetics and floral adaptations. Pp. 148-170, in Cognitive ecology of pollination: animal behavior and floral evolution (L. Chittka and J. D. Thomson, eds.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 358 pp.
• Worton, B. J. 1989. Kernel methods for estimating the utilisation distribution in home-range studies. Ecology, 70: 164-168.
• Worton, B. J. 1995. Using Monte Carlo simulation to evaluate kernel-based home range estimations. Journal of Wildlife Management, 59: 794-800.

Identyfikatory

DOI

10.3161/150811009X485558