The use of essential oils of chiropterochoric fruits for the attraction of fruit-eating bats: a potential tool for the recovery of forest ecosystems.
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Previous tests with essential cils extracted from ripe chiropterochoric fruits suggested that they could be used to attract and capture fruit-eating bats inside forest remnants. To evaluate the efficiency of ihese ails to attract frugivorous bats to open degraded areas we performed field tests with mimetic fruits of Piper gaudichaudianum. ?. crassinervium (Piperaceae) or Ficus insipida (Moraceae) attached to two aroups of mist-nets set 50 m away from the border of a Semideciduous Seasonal Forest remnant. One group of mimetic fruits received the corresponding essential oil isolateded through hydrodistillation ana he other group received water only. Frem a total of 112 irugivorous bats from six species captursd in six tests of two nights sach, 79 were in nets with oil (P=0.0000). Artibeus lituratus represented 91% ot all captures, with 42 individuals irapped in nets with oil of F. insipida, against 23 in nets with water (P=0.0184), and 28 in nets mth oil ot P. gaudichaudianum, against only seven in nets mith xater (P=0.0004).
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Chiropterochoric fruits, Morcegos, Bats, Attraction, Atração, Óleo Essencial, essential oils