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Movements of three mormoopid bat species (Chiroptera, Mormoopidae) among three underground roosts in southeastern Mexico

  • Antonio Santos-Moreno ORCID logo and Itandehui Hernández-Aguilar ORCID logo EMAIL logo
From the journal Mammalia

Abstract

The movement of individuals between roosts allows gene flow and influences the spatial distribution, dynamics, and genetic structure of populations. The objectives of this study were to describe the patterns of movement of the bats Mormoops megalophylla, Pteronotus fulvus, and Pteronotus mesoamericanus, between a mine (La Mina) and two caves (El Apanguito and Cerro Huatulco) and explore some drivers for the movements in Oaxaca, México using capture-recapture methods. From July 2016 to June 2017, we captured 5082 individuals (2369 P. fulvus, 1868 P. mesoamericanus, and 845 M. megalophylla). We obtained 292 recaptures, including 57 recaptures represented inter-roost movements (34 by P. fulvus, 18 by P. mesoamericanus, and 5 by M. megalophylla). Brownie’s Multistate model showed that the movements among roosts were species-specific and were determined only by the roost occupied before capture for P. mesoamericanus, by the roosts used before and after capture for P. fulvus, or only by seasonality for M. megalophylla. The results showed that the reproductive condition could have influenced the movements between roosts in the three mormoopids, mainly due to the formation of maternity colonies of P. mesoamericanus and P. fulvus in the El Apanguito cave and exclusive colonies of M. megalophylla males in Cerro Huatulco. Due to the importance of the reproductive events that occur in the roosts studied, we suggest that the three roosts should be considered as part of the group of Important Sites for the Conservation of Bats in the state of Oaxaca.


Corresponding author: Itandehui Hernández-Aguilar, Laboratorio de Ecología Animal, Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigación para el Desarrollo Integral Regional, Unidad Oaxaca, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Calle Hornos número 1003, Colonia La Noche Buena, Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán, Código Postal 71230, Oaxaca, Mexico, E-mail:

Funding source: Instituto Politecnico Nacional

Award Identifier / Grant number: SIP-20161645 and SIP-20171154

Funding source: Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología de México

Acknowledgments

To the authorities of Pluma Hidalgo and Santa María Huatulco for the facilities provided to conduct the study. To Rutilo, Armando Ramírez, and Carlos from the coffee plantations of El Apanguito and San Francisco, for the facilities provided for the field work. To M. Calixto, M. Soriano, A. García, D. Peña, E. Ruiz, E. Caballero, J. Arellanes, J. López, L. Jiménez, L. Pacheco, M. Sánchez, and R. Prado for their valuable help during the field work. To Dr. J. Williams, Dr. M. Rös, and Dr. M. García Guerrero for the revisions and comments to previous versions of the manuscript.

  1. Author contributions: ASM and IHA planned and designed the study. IHA conducted the fieldwork. ASM analyzed the data and ran the models. ASM and IHA wrote the manuscript and made final revisions of the manuscript.

  2. Research funding: The Instituto Politécnico Nacional de México provided financial support to carry out this project (projects SIP-20161645 and SIP-20171154 to the first author). The Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología de México provided a scholarship for postgraduate studies to the second author.

  3. Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest regarding this article.

  4. Research ethics: To carry out this study, a scientific collection license was granted for teaching purposes in the field of wildlife (SEMARNAT-20/ks-0112/10/16).

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Received: 2021-06-09
Accepted: 2022-03-04
Published Online: 2022-04-27
Published in Print: 2022-09-27

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