1. The Sonozotz project: Assembling an echolocation call library for bats in a megadiverse country
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Edgar G. Gutiérrez, Rene Murrieta-Galindo, Pedro Adrián Aguilar-Rodríguez, Luis Gerardo Avila-Torresagatón, Rafael León-Madrazo, Luis Arturo Hernández-Mijangos, Carmen Lorena Orozco-Lugo, Cuauhtémoc Chávez, Juan Carlos López-Vidal, Jorge Ortega, José Antonio Guerrero, Rodrigo García-Morales, Veronica Zamora-Gutierrez, Miguel Briones-Salas, Juan Cruzado, Everardo Robredo-Esquivelzeta, Jorge Ayala-Berdon, Margarita García-Luis, Martha Pilar Ibarra-López, Rafael Avila-Flores, Areli Rizo-Aguilar, Martín Alarcón-Montano, Fernando Montiel-Reyes, Santiago Martínez Balvanera, María Magdalena Ramírez-Martínez, Alba Z. Rodas-Martínez, Patricia Cortés-Calva, Melina Del Real-Monroy, Juan M. Pech-Canché, Celia Selem-Salas, M. Concepción López-Téllez, Cynthia Elizalde-Arellano, Manuel Chávez-Cauich, Jorge A. Vargas-Contreras, Aldo A. Guevara-Carrizales, Lucio Pérez-Pérez, Elena Uribe-Bencomo, Celia López-González, Luis Ignacio Iñiguez-Dávalos, Beatriz Bolívar-Cimé, Martha Chan-Noh, Jesús Carlo Cuevas, and Marcial Alejandro Rojo-Cruz
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0106 biological sciences ,Neotropics ,Range (biology) ,Bat echolocation ,Human echolocation ,ultrasounds ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,03 medical and health sciences ,lcsh:QH540-549.5 ,Chiroptera ,insectivorous bats ,acoustics ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,030304 developmental biology ,Nature and Landscape Conservation ,Original Research ,0303 health sciences ,Ecology ,business.industry ,Environmental resource management ,Geography ,Habitat ,lcsh:Ecology ,Species richness ,business - Abstract
Bat acoustic libraries are important tools that assemble echolocation calls to allow the comparison and discrimination to confirm species identifications. The Sonozotz project represents the first nation‐wide library of bat echolocation calls for a megadiverse country. It was assembled following a standardized recording protocol that aimed to cover different recording habitats, recording techniques, and call variation inherent to individuals. The Sonozotz project included 69 species of echolocating bats, a high species richness that represents 50% of bat species found in the country. We include recommendations on how the database can be used and how the sampling methods can be potentially replicated in countries with similar environmental and geographic conditions. To our knowledge, this represents the most exhaustive effort to date to document and compile the diversity of bat echolocation calls for a megadiverse country. This database will be useful to address a range of ecological questions including the effects of anthropogenic activities on bat communities through the analysis of bat sound., The Sonozotz project represents the first nation‐wide library of bat echolocation calls for a megadiverse country.
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- 2019