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New record of Lasiurus blossevillii (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) for the restinga ecosystem, and second occurrence for the state of Espírito Santo, southeastern Brazil
2009; De Gruyter; Volume: 73; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1515/mamm.2009.025
ISSN1864-1547
AutoresThiago Bernardi Vieira, Poliana Mendes, Monik Oprea, Albert David Ditchfield,
Tópico(s)Species Distribution and Climate Change
Resumobats; distribution; restinga ecosystem;vespertilionid.Chiroptera is the second most speciose mammal orderin Brazil (Reis et al. 2007), comprising 167 species, 64genus, and 9 families (Reis et al. 2007, Tavares et al., inpress). Although the number of bat inventories is geo-graphically biased to some regions in the country, it isknown that these animals are distributed all over theBrazilian territory (Reis et al. 2007). Even though thesoutheastern region is the most studied region, there arestill large sampling gaps, as it occurs in the state of Espi´-rito Santo (Rocha et al. 2003, Vieira et al. 2008). Origi-nally, the state of Espi´rito Santo had approximately 90%of its surface covered by Atlantic Forest vegetation (Fun-daca¸ ˜o SOS Mata Atlaˆntica 1993, IPEMA 2005). TheAtlantic Forest is one of the world’s most threatened bio-diversity hotspots (Myers et al. 2000, Mittermeier et al.2005), and the restingas (coastal shrublands) are theleast known and studied ecosystem within the AtlanticForest (Rocha et al. 2003). For the great majority of res-tinga fragments there is a lack of even the simplest infor-mation, such as species inventories (Rocha et al. 2003).To our knowledge, there are 13 studies of bats in restin-gas in Brazil (Oprea 2006), but only three were conductedin the state of Espi´rito Santo, one in Guriri Island (Morenoet al. 2000), and another two at Paulo Cesar Vinha StatePark (PEPCV) (Oprea 2006, Vieira 2008, Oprea et al. inpress). Here, we report the second record of
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