Preliminary assessment bat diversity in Uyuca Biological Reserve, Honduras
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The diversity of bats that can hosts the protected areas is determined by la habitat quality and the landscape heterogeneity. This quality and heterogeneity are primarily determined by the management. The diversity can indicate us the ecosystem service and goods which can be provided by protected areas. In the case of the bats, these provide some ecosystems services as pollination, seeds dispersion, control of insects population among others. For this reason, with the aim of improving the Management Plan of the Uyuca Biological Reserve, we plan to know the diversity that hosts this site. For this, mist-nets sampling and ultrasonic sound recording techniques were used to have a broad spectrum of the diversity of bats in the area. We identify 25 species of bats, which represents 22% of the diversity of chiroptera reported for Honduras. Three guilds were identified: frugivorous, insectivorous and nectivorous, be insectivorous species having the greatest richness. Our result suggest that Uyuca Biological Reserve hosts a high diversity of bats and fulfills its role in the protection and conservation of bats, as well as their habitat and the ecosystem goods and services that these provide. It is necessary to continue sampling other sectors of the reserve to know more precisely the diversity of chiropterofauna and to carry out population studies of species of conservation interest.
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