Dietary items recorded in Chocoan bats

Human disturbances have reduced the three basic niche dimensions for the survival of some 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 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 mean that bat communities and the ecosystem services that these animals provide are highly ..., Sampling was organized according to the lunar calendar periods, avoiding full moon periods because many species reduce their activity patterns to lower predation risk. There were 12 sampling nights in February, 11 in March, and 12 in May. During these months, we captured bats in the primary forest of Mashpi Lodge (PF), the secondary forest in natural regeneration (SF1) in Pambiliño and Chontaloma, and the secondary forest in assisted regeneration (SF2) in Chontaloma. Additionally, between July and August 2021, a 9-night sampling trip was carried out between the Mashpi Shungo and Chontaloma reserves. In Mashpi Shungo, we sampled in primary forest and SF1, whereas in Chontaloma, we sampled in pastures for cattle (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 sit..., , # 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 summarized data set among all the habitats. Bats are in rows, and each dietary item is recorded in columns. Users can use these data for any type of ecological analysis or simulation in R or another 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 here:...