Waihou Bat Guano OTU Representative Sequences from Zeale Primer 2016 to 2017
Dates
Publication Date
2019-07-24
Start Date
2016
End Date
2017
Citation
Pinzari, C.A., Peck, R., Zinn, T., Gross, D., Montoya-Aiona, K., Brinck, K., Gorresen, M., and Bonaccorso, F., 2019, Waihou Mitigation Area, Maui Island, bat acoustic activity, diet and prey availability, 2015 to 2018: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9U0KRMY.
Summary
Habitat use, diet, prey availability and foraging ecology of the endangered Hawaiian hoary bat (Lasiurus cinereus semotus, Vespertilionidae), was examined in the east Maui region inclusive of the Waihou Mitigation Area, Pu‘u Makua Restoration Area and the wind power facility operated by Auwahi Wind Energy, LLC. Research for the bat ecology study was provided by Auwahi Wind Energy, LLC, in order to fulfill requirements for mitigating bat fatalities under its approved incidental take permit. This study included the first genetic analysis of Hawaiian hoary bat guano items, and broadly confirms the major arthropod orders (Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Diptera, Hemiptera, and Blattodea) found in previous microscopy-based studies of guano samples. [...]
Summary
Habitat use, diet, prey availability and foraging ecology of the endangered Hawaiian hoary bat (Lasiurus cinereus semotus, Vespertilionidae), was examined in the east Maui region inclusive of the Waihou Mitigation Area, Pu‘u Makua Restoration Area and the wind power facility operated by Auwahi Wind Energy, LLC. Research for the bat ecology study was provided by Auwahi Wind Energy, LLC, in order to fulfill requirements for mitigating bat fatalities under its approved incidental take permit. This study included the first genetic analysis of Hawaiian hoary bat guano items, and broadly confirms the major arthropod orders (Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Diptera, Hemiptera, and Blattodea) found in previous microscopy-based studies of guano samples. This dataset describes the representative DNA sequences of operational taxonomic units (OTU) of prey items found in bat guano, derived with two different primers (Zeale, Epp).
Research for the bat ecology study was provided by Auwahi Wind Energy, LLC, in order to fulfill requirements for mitigating bat fatalities under its approved incidental take permit. These data were collected to assess bat habitat use, diet, prey availability and foraging ecology in a restoration area created for bat habitat mitigation. Bats were captured during two seasonal periods to collect guano for dietary analyses. We used metabarcoding techniques to genetically describe insect order and families found the guano of Waihou bats, and compared these to a locally collected genetic insect barcode library, as well as the general types of available prey. This dataset describes the representative DNA sequences of operational taxonomic units (OTU) of prey items found in bat guano, derived with the Zeale primer.
