Keywords :
Bat, Diversity, Food, Parasite, Sakaerat Environmental Research, Station
บทคัดย่อ :
Bats are the most diverse terrestrial mammals in Thailand. However, there is a lack of data on ecology of forest bats in Thailand. The objectives of this study were to investigate community structure, diet, and ectoparasites of bats in Sakaerat Environmental Research Station, Nakhon Ratchasima province. During June 2013 to May 2014, bats were captured by 16 mist nets, set up 6 hours after sunset in dry dipterocarp forest, ecotone, dry evergreen forest, and plantation forest. Surveys were carried out for 12 nights per season, overall 36 sampling nights. Captured bats were identified, sexed, aged, weighed, measured, and marked. Then, faecal pellets and ectoparasies were collected for later analyses. A total of 66 individual bats were captured, representing in 6 families, 7 genera, and 9 species. Of these, megabats comprised 32.82% while microbats constituted 68.18%. The most abundance species was Hipposideros larvatus (34.85%). The Shannon-Wiener diversity index of bats was 1.925 while the Shannon-Wiener evenness index of bats was 0.876. The number of bat captured was significantly different between dry evergreen forest and ecotone (
เอกสารอ้างอิง :
Aroon, S. (2014). Community, diet, and ectoparasites of bats in Sakaerat Environmental Research station, Nakhon Ratchasima province (Doctoral dissertation, School of Environmental Biology Institute of Science Suranaree University of Technology).
