Foraging Behaviour and Landscape Utilisation by the Endangered Golden-Crowned Flying Fox (Acerodon jubatus), The Philippines
Foraging Behaviour and Landscape Utilisation by the Endangered Golden-Crowned Flying Fox (Acerodon jubatus), The Philippines
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2013
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de Jong, Carol
Field, Hume
Tagtag, Anson
Hughes, Tom
Jayme, Sarah
Epstein, Jonathan
Smith, Craig
Santos, Imelda
Catbagan, Davinio
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PLoS ONE ; 8 (2013), 11. - e79665. - eISSN 1932-6203
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Species of Old World fruit-bats (family Pteropodidae) have been identified as the natural hosts of a number of novel and highly pathogenic viruses threatening livestock and human health. We used GPS data loggers to record the nocturnal foraging movements of Acerodon jubatus, the Golden-crowned flying fox in the Philippines to better understand the landscape utilisation of this iconic species, with the dual objectives of pre-empting disease emergence and supporting conservation management. Data loggers were deployed on eight of 54 A. jubatus (two males and six females) captured near Subic Bay on the Philippine island of Luzon between 22 November and 2 December 2010. Bodyweight ranged from 730 g to 1002 g, translating to a weight burden of 3-4% of bodyweight. Six of the eight loggers yielded useful data over 2-10 days, showing variability in the nature and range of individual bat movements. The majority of foraging locations were in closed forest and most were remote from evident human activity. Forty-six discrete foraging locations and five previously unrecorded roost locations were identified. Our findings indicate that foraging is not a random event, with the majority of bats exhibiting repetitious foraging movements night-to-night, that apparently intact forest provides the primary foraging resource, and that known roost locations substantially underestimate the true number (and location) of roosts. Our initial findings support policy and decision-making across perspectives including landscape management, species conservation, and potentially disease emergence.
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DE JONG, Carol, Hume FIELD, Anson TAGTAG, Tom HUGHES, Dina K. N. DECHMANN, Sarah JAYME, Jonathan EPSTEIN, Craig SMITH, Imelda SANTOS, Davinio CATBAGAN, 2013. Foraging Behaviour and Landscape Utilisation by the Endangered Golden-Crowned Flying Fox (Acerodon jubatus), The Philippines. In: PLoS ONE. 8(11), e79665. eISSN 1932-6203. Available under: doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079665BibTex
@article{deJong2013-11-21Forag-38079, year={2013}, doi={10.1371/journal.pone.0079665}, title={Foraging Behaviour and Landscape Utilisation by the Endangered Golden-Crowned Flying Fox (Acerodon jubatus), The Philippines}, number={11}, volume={8}, journal={PLoS ONE}, author={de Jong, Carol and Field, Hume and Tagtag, Anson and Hughes, Tom and Dechmann, Dina K. N. and Jayme, Sarah and Epstein, Jonathan and Smith, Craig and Santos, Imelda and Catbagan, Davinio}, note={Article Number: e79665} }
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