Se realizó un estudio del nicho alimentario de la comunidad de murciélagos frugívoros del .bosque de colina - rio ltaya, mediante el análisis de heces. Para tal efecto, se realizaron capturas mensuales de murciélagos a lo largo de 6 meses Gulio a diciembre de 2009). El objetivo del estudio fue determinar las especies de plantas consumidas y dispersadas por murciélagos frugívoros, estimar la amplitud, solapamiento de nicho alimentario y preferencia alimentaria de murciélagos frugívoros presentes en el área de estudio. Durante el estudio se identificaron 20 especies de murciélagos frugívoros, utilizándose 15 especies, debido a que presentaron muestras de heces con semillas, pulpa e insectos. Los murciélagos consumieron 49 especies de plantas representadas en su mayoría por las familias y géneros siguientes: Araceae (Anthurium y Philodendron), Moraceae (Ficus), Cyclanthaceae...

Bats are one of the most diverse groups of mammals in Peru, and they are also the most feared by the human population, which mostly ignores the qualities and ecological potential governed by their feeding strategies. Therefore, we had the objective of knowing the diversity of these flying mammals in the hill forests of the upper Itaya river basin, in the department of Loreto, Peru. Between 2009 and 2011, we took captures at the understory and middle canopy level in 50 sampling units. The result of the effort of 1800 hours/net 0 registered a species richness ( D) of 47 species, equivalent to 79.6% of the total estimated for this part of the 0 Peruvian Amazon. The D shows significant differences at the stratum level (t = 3.28, p = 0.01), with a greater number of understory species than the middle canopy. In addition, species richness was increased with 17 new records for the area. The frug...

Bats are one of the most diverse groups of mammals in Peru, and they are also the most feared by the human population, which mostly ignores the qualities and ecological potential governed by their feeding strategies. Therefore, we had the objective of knowing the diversity of these flying mammals in the hill forests of the upper Itaya river basin, in the department of Loreto, Peru. Between 2009 and 2011, we took captures at the understory and middle canopy level in 50 sampling units. The result of the effort of 1800 hours/net 0 registered a species richness ( D) of 47 species, equivalent to 79.6% of the total estimated for this part of the 0 Peruvian Amazon. The D shows significant differences at the stratum level (t = 3.28, p = 0.01), with a greater number of understory species than the middle canopy. In addition, species richness was increased with 17 new records for the area. The frug...