Abstract
Through an analysis of seeds in faeces, I recorded some fruits consumed by 13 bat species in a premontane forest of the buffer zone of Santuario Nacional Pampa Hermosa (Junin, central Peru) in March 2017. Platyrrhinus albericoi was found for the first time in the area. Results provide the first evidence of granivory by Chiroderma salvini and frugivory by Lonchophylla handleyi, and additional records of fruits consumed by some Neotropical frugivorous bats in premontane forests.
Funding source: Missouri Botanical Garden
Acknowledgments
Thanks to Missouri Botanical Garden of Oxapampa, Peru, for the support with logistics and guidance and to Edith Arias for her comments about bats in the study area. I am grateful to Marília Barros, Genevieve Pintel, the editor Stéphane Aulagnier and two anonymous reviewers who made important comments on previous versions of this manuscript. I appreciate the help of Emmy Medina and Manuel Sánchez in the elaboration of figures. Thanks to Klauss Cervantes, Fernando Cornejo and Sandra Velazco for their comments about the identities of some seeds; to Nick Soto, Renhart Apaza, and Hector Celestino for their help during bat samplings; and, finally, to Michela Olaya for her important support during the study.
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Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.
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Research funding: This research was done thanks to the fellowship Christopher Davidson and Sharon Christoph granted by Missouri Botanical Garden of Oxapampa, Peru.
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Conflict of interest statement: The author declares that he has no conflicts of interest regarding this article.
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Research ethics: All fieldwork procedures described complied with the guidelines of Ministerio del Ambiente of the Peruvian government (Ministerio del Ambiente 2015) and the American Society of Mammalogists (Sikes and The Animal Care and Use Committee of the American Society of Mammalogists 2016).
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