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Bats of the southern Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Mckenzie, N. L. Muir, W. P. |
| Copyright Year | 2000 |
| Abstract | We present the results of the first systematic survey of bats in the southern Carnarvon Basin. Two megabat and eleven microbat species were recorded. A twelfth microbat species, Macroderma gigas, is known from sub fossil material. We demonstrate tight, functionally appropriate relationships between species' foraging microhabitats, flight performance indices, and echolocation call parameters. Patterns in the species composition of microbat assemblages across the study area conform with a 'temperate to tropical' climatic gradient, but are modified by variation in the structural complexity of the vegetation. Within the study area, these relationships allow the species composition of microbat assemblages to be predicted from vegetation structure and local availability of roost sites, and provide an explicit basis for assessing the reserve system from the perspective of microbats. • resource allocation among co-occurring species. All three are important considerations for reserve system development. The only other systematic bat surveys covering areas of Western Australia as extensive as our study area were carried out between 1977 and 1985 in the Eastern Goldfields (e.g. McKenzie and Rolfe, 1995b) and in tropical mangrove communities (McKenzie and Start, 1989). At the outset of this study, the Western Australian Museum held 77 bat specimens from the study area. All were collected opportunistically, with virtually no ecological data. The earliest record was of Pteropus scapulatus (WAM2644) from Tamala Homestead (26°42'S, 113°43'E) in 1944. The single, most species-rich collection comprised three species from Kalbarri National Park in 1969-70 (Chalinolobus gouldii, Vespadelus finlaysoni and |
| Starting Page | 465 |
| Ending Page | 465 |
| Page Count | 1 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.18195/issn.0313-122x.61.2000.465-477 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://museum.wa.gov.au/sites/default/files/16.%20McKenzie,%20Muir.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://museum.wa.gov.au/sites/default/files/SuppWAMuseum_2000_61_465to477_MCKENZIEetal.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.18195/issn.0313-122x.61.2000.465-477 |
| Volume Number | 60 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
