Interaction networks of nectar-feeding bats and plants in central Mexico

We used metabarcoding to identify plant taxa present in pollen from fur and faecal samples collected across 1 year from three nectar‐feeding bat roosts in central Mexico. We calculated the presence/absence of plant taxa in pollen and faecal samples collected from each bat individual in each month sampled and used these data to create a weighted adjacency matrix showing the summed interactions between bat species and plant taxa. We constructed bipartite interaction matrices, consisting of a year‐long network, encompassing the entire period of sampling, two seasonal networks comprising the wet and dry seasons, and six individual networks from sampling at two‐month intervals across the year. Across the year, four species of nectar-feeding bats interacted with 36 plant species from 16 families. 
Here we provide the year-long, dry season, wet season, and bi-monthly interaction networks (February, April, June, August, October, December). The dry season months were considered February, Ap..., , # Interaction networks of nectar-feeding bats and plants in central Mexico

Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.tht76hfb5](10.5061/dryad.tht76hfb5)

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Tremlett, C.J., Chapman, M., Maher, K.H., Keller, A., Blüthgen, N., Peh, K.S.H. and Zamora‐Gutierrez, V., 2024. High resource overlap and a consistently generalised pattern of interactions in a bat–flower network in a seasonally dry landscape. *Ecology and Evolution*, *14*(10), p.e70367.   

[https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70367](https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70367)

Pollination is an ecosystem process that is crucial to maintain biodiversity and ecosystem function. Bats are important pollinators in the tropics and are an integral part of complex plant–pollinator interaction networks. However, network analysis–based approaches are still scarce at the plant species and bat community levels.

We captured bats returning to the roost from feeding (numbers captured depended on acti...,