Dietary items recorded in Chocoan bats

Human disturbances have reduced the three basic niche dimensions for survival of mammalian species (space, time and resources). Many studies consider that anthropic activities cause the extinction of ecological functionalities faster than the species extinctions. The effects of human disturbances on the niche structure and ecological relationships of bat communities are fairly unknown.  Based on management use, we identified 4 types of habitats in the Ecuadorian Andean Chocó: primary forest (PF), secondary forest in natural regeneration (SF1), secondary forest in assisted regeneration (SF2) and pastures for cattle (P). We used these habitats to determine what are the responses in the trophic niche and the ecological relationships of understory fruit bats. Our results show that niche overlap is higher in disturbed habitats (SF1, SF2, and P), while ecological relationships are weaker. These results means that bat communities and the ecosystem services that these animals provide are highly..., We carried out 45 bat capture sessions between the months of February and August 2021: 12 sampling nights in primary forest (PF) at Mashpi Lodge, 12 sampling nights in secondary forest in natural regeneration (SF1) and 12 nights in secondary forest in assisted regeneration (SF2) between the Pambiliño and Chontaloma reserves. In addition, a 9-night sampling trip was carried out between the Mashpi Shungo and Chontaloma reserves. In Mashpi Shungo, we carried out 3 sampling nights in primary forest (PF) and 3 sampling nights in secondary forest in natural regeneration (SF1), while in Chontaloma 3 sampling nights were worked in pastures of for cattle (P).  In the study sampling sited were grouped by forest type (PF, SF, P)
For the capture sessions, we used 4-7 mist nets of variable sizes (6, 9 and 10 meters), opened between 19:00 pm to 00:30 am (Arias and Pacheco, 2019; Novoa et al. 2011). We placed capture stations on closed trails, mountain ridges, near water sources, and potential flight ..., , # Dietary items recorded in Chocoan Bats

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.gtht76hsv](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.gtht76hsv)

This file contains original datasets collected for performing analyses of niche breadth, niche overlap, and ecological relationships.

## Description of the data and file structure

Data are organized by 4 types of habitats, primary forest (PF1), secondary forest in natural regeneration (SF1), secondary forest in assisted regeneration (SF2), pastures for cattle (P), and a resumed data set among all the habitats. Bats are in rows, and each dietary item recorded in columns. Users can use these data for performing any type of ecological analyses or simulations in R or other console.

## Code/Software

Each one of these matrix must be charged in R Studio and R 4.1.0. For replicating null models and other analyses, its necessary to use the next R packages: bipartite, bipartite d3, Spaa,vegan, Cluster, EcosimR.
A detailed tutorial for some of these packages is found he...