Impacts of rainforest degradation on the diets of the insectivorous bats of Sabah

The work was carried out within Sabah, at the SAFE project, Danum Valley and Maliau basin. Bats were captured by deploying 6 harp traps per night, during field seasons taking place in 2015, 2016 and 2017. Bat guano samples were collected by placing individual bats into cloth bags, and then releasing them after 12 hours. Any guano in the bottom of the bag was then transferred into 95% ethanol and stored at -20. DNA was extracted from the faecal samples using a Qiagen Stool Mini kit, and then amplified using the ZBJ-ArtF1c ZBJ-ArtR2c primers, and sequencing the DNA on an Illumina MiSeq.

Authors

• Hemprich-Bennett, David — University of Oxford
• Kemp, Victoria — Queen Mary University of London
• Blackman, Joshua — Queen Mary University of London
• Bernard, Henry — Universiti Malaysia Sabah
• Lewis, Owen — University of Oxford
• Struebig, Matthew — Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology
• Rossiter, Stephen — Queen Mary University of London
• Clare, Elizabeth — Queen Mary University of London

Keywords

• Bats
• DNA metabarcoding
• Feeding ecology
• Trophic interactions
• Arthropods
• Chiroptera
• Borneo

Funders

• NERC (NE/K016407/1)
• Royal Society (RG130793)
• Bat Conservation International

Permits

• Research — Sabah Biodiversity Centre (JKM/MBS.1000-2/2 JLD.4 (46))

Worksheets

Files

• Bat_SAFE_data_metadata.xlsx
• sequences_95.fasta
• interaction_network.csv

Taxa

68 GBIF taxa, 0 sequence-derived taxa.