New bat records for altitudinal Atlantic Forest in Espírito Santo, southeastern Brazil
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Carina Maria Vela-Ulian
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Albert David Ditchfield
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Ana Carolina Srbek-Araujo
Abstract
We report two new bat records for Espírito Santo State (Brazil), increasing the local list to 88 species. Two individuals of Myotis izecksohni were collected with mist net, while Molossops temminckii was identified from bioacoustic recordings. Both species were recorded in the Serra do Caparaó region, characterized by high-altitude Atlantic Forest, located in the southwest portion of Espírito Santo State. With these new records, the state is now home to 48.6% of the chiropterofauna known to Brazil.
Funding source: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e Inovação do Espírito Santo
Award Identifier / Grant number: FAPES 180/2019
Acknowledgments
The authors thank the Parque Nacional do Caparaó for permitting access to the Santa Marta Base and Casa Queimada Base; the owners of the farms Sítio São João Príncipe, Mr. and Mrs. Horst, and Fazenda Café Cordilheiras do Caparaó, Mr. and Mrs. Miranda Vieira, for the permission to work on their land; Francyne Mischiatti for the help identifying Molossops temminckii; and Beatriz Hörmanseder for the photographic records.
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Author contributions: CMV-U: conceptualization; methodology, data curation, formal analysis, writing – original draft; CMV-U, ACS-A, ADD: writing – review & editing; ACS-A, ADD: supervision. All authors actively participated in the discussion of the results, revised, and approved the final version of the manuscript.
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Research funding: The authors thank Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e Inovação do Espírito Santo (FAPES 180/2019) for funding awarded to Professor Dr. Ana Carolina Srbek-Araujo; and Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) for the doctoral scholarship awarded to Carina Maria Vela-Ulian (Financial Code 001).
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Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest regarding this article.
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Research ethics: The research met all the ethical guidelines, including adherence to the Brazilian legal requirements (Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade – ICMBio 62847) and animal care requirements (Comissão de Ética no Uso de Animais da Universidade Vila Velha – CEUA-UVV 517-2019). The research was also in compliance with national and international guidelines to reduce the risk of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from humans to bats – Sociedade Brasileira para o Estudo de Quirópteros (SBEQ) and IUCN SSC Bat Specialist Group (BSG). We strove to respect and acted ethically towards ecosystems and animals’ welfare while conducting our fieldwork.
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