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      Distribución anidada de murciélagos en fragmentos de bosque premontano de la cuenca media del río Cauca, Colombia

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          La fragmentación del hábitat cambia la estructura y distribución de los ensamblajes ecológicos, de manera que se forman subconjuntos de especies con respecto a los ensamblajes de hábitats no fragmentados. Este trabajo tiene como objetivos identificar el patrón de distribución de murciélagos en 15 fragmentos de Bosque húmedo premontano de la cuenca media del río Cauca (Colombia), y estudiar las características estructurales de los fragmentos de bosques, probablemente relacionadas con la ocurrencia de murciélagos en los mismos. Se capturaron murciélagos con redes de niebla, y se calculó la diversidad, grado de anidamiento y su relación con las características estructurales de los fragmentos de bosque, las cuales se analizaron mediante Modelos Lineales Generalizados. Con un esfuerzo de 15 750 horas-red, se registró un total de 1162 individuos pertenecientes a 32 especies de murciélagos. Lonchophylla concava se registra por primera vez para la zona de estudio. La distribución de las especies de murciélagos en los fragmentos de bosque estudiados reveló un patrón de distribución anidado, donde los bosques que contienen menor riqueza de especies son una submuestra de las especies presentes en los bosques con mayor riqueza. Dicha estructura anidada no está dada por el tamaño de bosque, sino por el promedio del área basal y el diámetro promedio de la vegetación a la altura del pecho. En este sentido, la riqueza de especies de murciélagos aumenta con el grado de recuperación de los fragmentos de bosque y es un factor relevante para predecir el patrón de distribución de los mismos.

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          Habitat fragmentation changes the structure and composition of ecological assemblages, forming subsets of those species found in unfragmented habitats. The goal of this project was to identify the pattern of distribution of bats in 15 montane humid forest fragments in the middle Cauca River basin (Colombia), and to study the structural characteristics of forest fragments that may explain the occurrence of bats. Bats were captured in mist nets, diversity and nestedness were calculated, and their relationship with measures of structural features was analyzed using Generalized Linear Models. A total of 1162 individuals belonging to 32 bat species were recorded in 15 750 net-hours. Lonchophylla concava was recorded for the first time in the study area. The distribution of bat species in forest fragments revealed a nested pattern, in which forests with lower species richness represent subsamples of the species in the forests with greater species richness. Importantly, this nested structure is not related to the size of forest, but rather to the mean basal area and the mean diameter at breast height of the vegetation. In this sense, the richness of bat species increases with the degree of recovery of forest fragments, which is a relevant factor to predict the pattern of distribution of bats.

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                Contributors
                Role: ND
                Role: ND
                Role: ND
                Journal
                mznt
                Mastozoología neotropical
                Mastozool. neotrop.
                Sociedad Argentina para el Estudio de los Mamíferos (SAREM) (Mendoza, Mendoza, Argentina )
                0327-9383
                1666-0536
                December 2016
                : 23
                : 2
                : 371-387
                Affiliations
                [01] orgnameAsociación Colombia Endémica orgdiv1Programa de Conservación de Murciélagos de Colombia
                [03] Chinchiná orgnameCentro Nacional de Investigaciones en Café-CENICAFÉ Colombia
                [04] orgnamePontificia Universidad Javeriana orgdiv1Postgrado en Ciencias Biológicas
                [02] Santa Rosa de Cabal orgnameCorporación Universitaria Santa Rosa de Cabal UNISARC orgdiv1Grupo de investigación en Biología de la Conservación y Biotecnología Colombia
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                S0327-93832016000200013
                7b46263c-f8b5-4af1-b1ae-9d77cbac48af

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

                History
                : 27 May 2016
                : 04 February 2016
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                Figures: 0, Tables: 0, Equations: 0, References: 23, Pages: 17
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                Forest fragmentation,Nestedness,Landscape ecology,Anidamiento,Ecología de paisaje,Estructura de ensamblajes,Fragmentación de bosques,Zona cafetera,Assemblage structure,Coffee landscape

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