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The Sonozotz project: Assembling an echolocation call library for bats in a megadiverse country

2020; Wiley; Volume: 10; Issue: 11 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1002/ece3.6245

2045-7758

Veronica Zamora‐Gutierrez, Jorge Ortega, Rafael Ávila‐Flores, Pedro A. Aguilar‐Rodríguez, Martín Alarcón‐Montano, Luis Gerardo Avila‐Torresagatón, Jorge Ayala‐Berdón, Beatriz Bolívar‐Cimé, Miguel Briones‐Salas, Martha Chan‐Noh, Manuel Chávez‐Cauich, Cuauhtémoc Chávez, Patricia Cortés‐Calva, Juan Cruzado, J. Carlo Cuevas, Melina Del Real‐Monroy, Cynthia Elizalde‐Arellano, Margarita García‐Luis, Rodrigo García‐Morales, José Antonio Guerrero, Aldo A. Guevara‐Carrizales, Edgar G. Gutiérrez, Luis Arturo Hernández–Mijangos, Martha Pilar Ibarra‐López, Luis Ignacio Íñiguez‐Dávalos, Rafael León‐Madrazo, Celia López‐González, María Concepción López-Téllez, Juan Carlos López‐Vidal, Santiago Martínez‐Balvanera, Fernando J. Montiel‐Reyes, René Murrieta-Galindo, Carmen Lorena Orozco‐Lugo, Juan Manuel Pech Canché, Lucio Pérez‐Pérez, María Magdalena Ramírez‐Martínez, Areli Rizo‐Aguilar, Everardo Robredo‐Esquivelzeta, Alba Zulema Rodas‐Martínez, Marcial Alejandro Rojo‐Cruz, Celia Isela Sélem Salas, Elena Uribe‐Bencomo, Jorge Albino Vargas Contreras, M. Cristina MacSwiney G.,

Marine animal studies overview

Abstract Bat acoustic libraries are important tools that assemble echolocation calls to allow the comparison and discrimination to confirm species identifications. The Sonozotz project represents the first nation‐wide library of bat echolocation calls for a megadiverse country. It was assembled following a standardized recording protocol that aimed to cover different recording habitats, recording techniques, and call variation inherent to individuals. The Sonozotz project included 69 species of echolocating bats, a high species richness that represents 50% of bat species found in the country. We include recommendations on how the database can be used and how the sampling methods can be potentially replicated in countries with similar environmental and geographic conditions. To our knowledge, this represents the most exhaustive effort to date to document and compile the diversity of bat echolocation calls for a megadiverse country. This database will be useful to address a range of ecological questions including the effects of anthropogenic activities on bat communities through the analysis of bat sound.