Do mosquitoes influence bat activity in coastal habitats?
Leroy Gonsalves A D , Susan Lamb A , Cameron Webb B , Bradley Law C and Vaughan Monamy A
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A School of Arts and Sciences, Australian Catholic University, 40 Edward Street, North Sydney, NSW 2060, Australia.
B Department of Medical Entomology, Westmead Hospital and University of Sydney, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia.
C Forest Science Centre, Department of Primary Industries, PO Box 100, Beecroft, NSW 2119, Australia.
D Corresponding author. Email: leroy.gonsalves@acu.edu.au
Wildlife Research 40(1) 10-24 https://doi.org/10.1071/WR12148
Submitted: 16 August 2012 Accepted: 10 December 2012 Published: 30 January 2013
Abstract
Context: Conservation of insectivorous bat populations requires appropriate management of foraging habitats and the prey resources they sustain. Endangered coastal saltmarsh communities support a diverse range of aquatic and terrestrial arthropods, including the saltmarsh mosquito (Aedes vigilax Skuse), an important vector of mosquito-borne viruses and a potentially important prey resource for insectivorous bats. Prey detectability by bats is considered to be limited with low-frequency echolocation, particularly in cluttered habitats, that may render abundant Ae. vigilax populations unavailable to some bat species.
Aims: To investigate relationships between availability of Ae. vigilax and non-mosquito prey, and the activity of foraging insectivorous bats in a range of coastal habitats.
Methods: We measured nightly bat activity and the abundance of prey (mosquito and non-mosquito) concurrently during neap and spring tides in saltmarsh, urban and forest habitats. Comparisons were made between tidal cycle and habitats, and relationships between bat activity and the abundance of prey were examined.
Key results: Whereas prey abundances were generally greatest in saltmarsh and forest habitats, bat activity was greatest in the forest habitat. However, proportional feeding activity was greatest in saltmarsh. Prey abundance was positively correlated with total bat activity only in the open saltmarsh, where an absence of clutter would maximise prey detectability and thus availability. Positive correlations between Ae. vigilax abundance and bat activity, across all habitats, were restricted to bats of the Vespadelus genus, which are small-sized bats that employ high-frequency echolocation suitable for detection of small prey along edges.
Conclusions: These findings suggest that Ae. vigilax may be an important prey resource for small, high-frequency echolocating bats capable of discerning small prey within cluttered forest as well as exploiting abundant prey in the open saltmarsh.
Implications: Small, high-frequency echolocating bats should be the focus of future studies investigating the importance of small prey, such as Ae. vigilax, to the diets of foraging bats.
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