Values of forest patches in conserving bat diversity on Penang Island, Malaysia

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Values of forest patches in conserving bat diversity on Penang Island, Malaysia

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Mitochondrial DNA Structure of Lyles's Flying Fox Pteropas lylei

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Epidemiology and public _Health unir pt nom penh, iamboiiq *io*.sponding author: thongchai'n@chulaac'th

Lyle,s flying

fox Pteropus

lylei is one of the major

reservoirs

for Nipah virus in

Southeast

Asia.

Several outbreaks of this virus occurred in many areas o{ sgut-h East Asian and South Asia in the last decade. More than 200 ^people

in

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to this viral

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for

epidemiology ^spread and disease risk requires an understanding

of

popuration ecology

*a

population genetic structure

of

the primary

host'

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study investigated the spatial distribuiion

of

miiochondrial

DNA

diversity ^among

Lyle's flying

^fox populations

in order to clariff their

population genetic structure

and

characterize

the

^potential epidemiorogy spread of Nipah

ri*, u*ong

^bat popirlations. The current mitochondrial

DNA

survey suggested the genetic homogenelty of

mtoNA

^among

Lyle's flying

^fox poputations in Thailand and Cambodia.

values of Forest patches in conserving Bat Diversity

^on

Penang rsland, Malaysia

Nur Izzati Abdullahr, ^Joe chun-chia Huang2, Faisal

Ali

^Anwarali

Khanl

Mohd Abdul Muin

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^Lee-Sim

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,school of Distance Education, Universiti iains Malaysia, ^11800, Penang,lvlalaysia; 2Department of Biolo.elcal Sciences' Texas Tech University, Lubboclg Texas,

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^of Resource Science and Technology' universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Kota samarah;,

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uaaysia;-nictiJoiof Biological Sciences, universiti Sains Malaysia'

t i gO0, Penang, MJlaysia; *Conesponding author: leesim'lim@usm'my

The natural

^habitats

on

^penang

Island has been

^largely_ transformed

for urban and

^industry

devetopments over the past century.

o;ty

rew relative

l.rg.

forests are remained as reserves and the other forest patches are usually smalt und

dir.ontinuoust!

distributed

within

agricultural ^{and urban} landscapes. The values of thesi

ror"rt

^{put.tres and} forest-ilke habitats (e.g. orchard) in conserving the island,s bat diversrry are understudied.'we surveyed bat diversrty with harp traps ^and- mist nets at five forest sites and

two

orchard sites

in

continuous forest,

agritulture,

and urban landscapes from Novembe

r

²⁰¹⁴

to May

^2015.

A

^total

of

3gg individuals from

22

^bat species

of

six families ^were recorded.

cynopterus braclryotis was the most

abundant species across

sites, followed

^by Rhinolophus

affinis.

The

two

sites

in

agriculture landscapes, regardless habitat. types, had higher values

of

simpson Index (0.16

for

the

f;rest

^{site and}

o.gi

for

thi

^{orchard site) than sites}

in

^forest

landscapes

(0.41-0.46,n:3)

andurban landscapes (0.46 and 0.50,

!=2).

The results suggestthat species compositions

in

agricurture landscapes were more ^even

than

other landscapes.

with

^an

estimate of over 60 species,

*,

^,uggurt

it

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r

^small sample size in our study may underestimate the overall species diversity for ^penang

irt""a. we wil

include more sample sites to

justify

the pafferns reported here and more comparisons

of

bat assemblage structure

in

forest patches among the three study landscapes. The values orroiesrpatches within-each ^landscape on conserving Penang's forest bats

will

be discussed.

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