Seed dispersal by bats across four successional stages of a subandean landscape

Mauricio Aguilar; Luis Miguel Renjifo Martinez; Jairo Perez Torres

Seed dispersal by bats across four successional stages of a subandean landscape

Título traducido de la contribución: Dispersión de semillas por murciélagos a través de cuatro estados sucesionales de un paisaje subandino

Mauricio Aguilar, Luis Miguel Renjifo Martinez, Jairo Perez Torres

Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, Bogota

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La relación mutualista entre murciélago-vegetación, además de los beneficios individuales, contribuye de manera
importante a la regeneración de los bosques tropicales a través de la dispersión de semillas. Los murciélagos al
consumir los frutos de plantas pioneras facilitan la sucesión secundaria, dispersando las semillas que ingieren
tanto en bosques como en áreas degradadas. En este estudio se comparó la estructura y composición del
conjunto de murciélagos frugívoros y las semillas que dispersaron en hábitats con diferente estado sucesional
(bosque maduro, crecimiento secundario con siete años de regeneración, crecimiento secundario con un año
de regeneración y pastizal) en la Reserva Forestal Bremen-La Popa (Filandia, Quindío). Se utilizaron redes
de niebla para la captura de los murciélagos y se obtuvo muestras de materia fecal. La abundancia, riqueza y
equidad del conjunto de murciélagos frugívoros y de las semillas que dispersaron fue superior en los hábitats
con mayor edad de regeneración. Artibeus lituratus y Sturnira lilium fueron los murciélagos más abundantes
en pastizales y en los estados sucesionales tempranos de uno y siete años. Las semillas más dispersadas por los
murciélagos fueron de Cecropia telealba, Solanum undullata, S. aphydendron y S. acerifolium

Título traducido de la contribución	Dispersión de semillas por murciélagos a través de cuatro estados sucesionales de un paisaje subandino
Idioma original	Inglés
Páginas (desde-hasta)	87-101
Número de páginas	15
Publicación	Biota Colombiana
Volumen	15
N.º	2
Estado	Publicada - 2014

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