Sample name: Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve (partially surrounded, secondary forest)

Reference: I. Vleut, S. I. Levy-Tacher, J. Galindo-Gonzâlez, and W. F. de Boer. 2015. Positive effects of surrounding rainforest on composition, diversity and late-successional seed dispersal by bats. Basic and Applied Ecology 16(4):308-315 [ER 1167]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: secondary forest

Protection: biosphere reserve

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 24.7

MAP: 2000.0

Habitat comments: "evergreen rainforest with dominant species such as Dialium guianense, Brosimum alicastrum, Swietenia macrophylla, Ficus spp. and Spondias mombin... secondary forest sites had been abandoned 10–15 years prior to the study" and were previously subjected to "slash and burn agroforestry"
MAP is a minimum estimate

Life forms: bats

Sites: 4

Sampling methods: no design,mist nets

Sample size: 537 individuals

Years: 2010, 2011

Days: 48

Nets or traps: 3

Net or trap nights: 144

Sampling comments: "Bats were sampled each month, from April 2010 to March 2011 using 3 (12 × 2.4 m, 36mm mesh) mist nets inside the sites, set at ground level, from 0.5 h before sunset until 4h after, 1 night per site"

Sample number: 1695

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2015-07-08 17:23:09

Modified: 2015-07-08 09:56:44