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Insights into the habitat associations, phylogeny, and diet of Pipistrellus maderensis in Porto Santo, northeastern Macaronesia
Department of Animal Biology, Plant Biology and Ecology, Autonomous University of Barcelona, 08193 Catalonia, Spain
Nia Toshkova
National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,
1000 Sofia, Bulgaria
Angelina Gonçalves
Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto, 4099-002 Porto, Portugal
André Reis
Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, 1349-017
Lisbon, Portugal
Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Évora,
7000-671 Évora, Portugal
Elena J. Soto
Faculty of Biology, University of Murcia, 30003 Murcia, Spain
Sergio Puertas Ruiz
Pyrenean Institute of Ecology, Spanish National Research Council
(IPE-CSIC), 50059 Zaragoza, Spain
Vanessa A. Mata
Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos
Genéticos (CIBIO), InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus de Vairão,
Universidade do Porto, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal
BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning,
CIBIO, Campus de Vairão, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal
Catarina Rato
Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos
Genéticos (CIBIO), InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus de Vairão,
Universidade do Porto, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal
BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning,
CIBIO, Campus de Vairão, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal
Ricardo Rocha
Department of Biology, University of Oxford, OX1 3SZ, Oxford, UK
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Arthropod monitoring in protected areas often requires non-destructive methods in order to avoid detrimental effects on natural communities. Video monitoring recorded the highest number of individuals followed by quadrat sampling and pitfall trapping. Quadrat sampling showed the highest diversity followed by video monitoring and pitfall trapping. Thus, video monitoring has a great potential as a supplementary method for biodiversity assessments especially at the level of parataxonomic units.
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Short summary
We conducted an island-wide survey to investigate if the Madeiran pipistrelle still persists on the island of Porto Santo, where it was believed to be extinct. We detected bats in 28 out of 46 sampling sites, and their activity was particularly associated with water points. Furthermore, we found that bats from Porto Santo and Madeira have a close phylogenetic affinity and that they feed on a wide variety of insects, including several economically important pest species and disease vectors.
We conducted an island-wide survey to investigate if the Madeiran pipistrelle still persists on...
