Going out for dinner-The consumption of agriculture pests by bats in urban areas.

Insectivorous bats provide ecosystem services in agricultural and urban landscapes by consuming arthropods that are considered pests. Bat species inhabiting cities are expected to consume insects associated with urban areas, such as mosquitoes, flying termites, moths, and beetles. We captured insect...

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Autores principales: Ludmilla M S Aguiar, Igor D Bueno-Rocha, Guilherme Oliveira, Eder S Pires, Santelmo Vasconcelos, Gisele L Nunes, Marina R Frizzas, Pedro H B Togni
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:23076f9573564d9e99548bbca797abcb2021-12-02T20:16:42ZGoing out for dinner-The consumption of agriculture pests by bats in urban areas.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0258066https://doaj.org/article/23076f9573564d9e99548bbca797abcb2021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258066https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Insectivorous bats provide ecosystem services in agricultural and urban landscapes by consuming arthropods that are considered pests. Bat species inhabiting cities are expected to consume insects associated with urban areas, such as mosquitoes, flying termites, moths, and beetles. We captured insectivorous bats in the Federal District of Brazil and used fecal DNA metabarcoding to investigate the arthropod consumed by five bat species living in colonies in city buildings, and ascertained whether their predation was related to ecosystem services. These insectivorous bat species were found to consume 83 morphospecies of arthropods and among these 41 were identified to species, most of which were agricultural pests. We propose that bats may roost in the city areas and forage in the nearby agricultural fields using their ability to fly over long distances. We also calculated the value of the pest suppression ecosystem service by the bats. By a conservative estimation, bats save US$ 94 per hectare of cornfields, accounting for an annual savings of US$ 390.6 million per harvest in Brazil. Our study confirms that, regardless of their roosting location, bats are essential for providing ecosystem services in the cities, with extensive impacts on crops and elsewhere, in addition to significant savings in the use of pesticides.Ludmilla M S AguiarIgor D Bueno-RochaGuilherme OliveiraEder S PiresSantelmo VasconcelosGisele L NunesMarina R FrizzasPedro H B TogniPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 10, p e0258066 (2021)
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Ludmilla M S Aguiar
Igor D Bueno-Rocha
Guilherme Oliveira
Eder S Pires
Santelmo Vasconcelos
Gisele L Nunes
Marina R Frizzas
Pedro H B Togni
Going out for dinner-The consumption of agriculture pests by bats in urban areas.
description Insectivorous bats provide ecosystem services in agricultural and urban landscapes by consuming arthropods that are considered pests. Bat species inhabiting cities are expected to consume insects associated with urban areas, such as mosquitoes, flying termites, moths, and beetles. We captured insectivorous bats in the Federal District of Brazil and used fecal DNA metabarcoding to investigate the arthropod consumed by five bat species living in colonies in city buildings, and ascertained whether their predation was related to ecosystem services. These insectivorous bat species were found to consume 83 morphospecies of arthropods and among these 41 were identified to species, most of which were agricultural pests. We propose that bats may roost in the city areas and forage in the nearby agricultural fields using their ability to fly over long distances. We also calculated the value of the pest suppression ecosystem service by the bats. By a conservative estimation, bats save US$ 94 per hectare of cornfields, accounting for an annual savings of US$ 390.6 million per harvest in Brazil. Our study confirms that, regardless of their roosting location, bats are essential for providing ecosystem services in the cities, with extensive impacts on crops and elsewhere, in addition to significant savings in the use of pesticides.
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author Ludmilla M S Aguiar
Igor D Bueno-Rocha
Guilherme Oliveira
Eder S Pires
Santelmo Vasconcelos
Gisele L Nunes
Marina R Frizzas
Pedro H B Togni
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Guilherme Oliveira
Eder S Pires
Santelmo Vasconcelos
Gisele L Nunes
Marina R Frizzas
Pedro H B Togni
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title Going out for dinner-The consumption of agriculture pests by bats in urban areas.
title_short Going out for dinner-The consumption of agriculture pests by bats in urban areas.
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title_fullStr Going out for dinner-The consumption of agriculture pests by bats in urban areas.
title_full_unstemmed Going out for dinner-The consumption of agriculture pests by bats in urban areas.
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