Tesis
Comunidades de murciélagos en cavernas del altiplano cundiboyacense colombiano (Cogua y Tocancipá) frente a un paisaje cambiante, retos de conservación desde la educación ambiental
Autor
Párraga Silba, María Teresa
Possos Ramírez, Clara Isabel
Institución
Resumen
Living beings have different responses to the transformations of their habitat caused by different anthropic activities, some manage to adapt while others see their survival strongly threatened. Understanding these different responses has allowed us to propose some species as sensitive to anthropic intervention. The present study evaluates the bat communities that inhabit two high mountain caves in the Bogotá-Cundinamarca savannah region, in relation to the land cover. The percentage of coverage of the study area is shown, following the criteria of CORINE Land Cover adapted for Colombia, through in-situ observation at 1 km around each of the caves. Two samplings were made in each cave, one in August 2016 (dry season) and another in November 2017 (rainy season) through the use of foggy nets. Richness, abundance, diversity, dominance and the structure of the populations of Anoura geoffroyi and Sturnira bogotensis were found. According to the percentage of landscape cover, the cave in Tocancipá was classified as high anthropic intervention while the cave of Cogua was considered low intervention. No differences were found between the two communities of the caves studied, in terms of the richness and diversity of bats. The Anoura geoffroyi specie is present in the two caves, which is because this specie is considered highly tolerant to anthropic intervention. Finally, environmental education promotes favorable attitudes towards the care and conservation of bats in students of two educational institutions present in the municipalities of Cogua and Tocancipa, Cundinamarca.