Some Considerations on the Conservation Status of the Giant Fruit-Eating Bat, Artibeus amplus

PAOLO RAMONI-PERAZZI; RUIZ-RAMONI, DAMIÁN; MARIANA MUÑOZ-ROMO; DIRK RAFAEL THIELEN ENGELBERTZ; ALEJANDRA SOTO WERSCHITZ

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Lugar: Caracas; Año: 2014 vol. 39 p. 354 - 356

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Artibeus amplus, a Phyllostomid distributed in northernNeotropics, has been included in the ?Data Deficient? categoryboth in Colombian and Venezuelan red lists, but in the?Least Concern? category by the IUCN, even if its populationtrend is unknown. The potential range of suitable habitat recentlyreported for this bat species exceeds the extensionsconsidered by the IUCN Standards and Petitions Subcommittee:836,000km2, mainly in the Guiana Shield (73.5%), withgood overall forest connectivity. The remnant suitable habitat(26.5%), located in the mountain ranges in western and northwesternSouth America, although widely fragmented might beconsidered adequate for the surviving of this bat species, sincerecent evidence suggest high tolerance to human impact. Inconclusion, A. amplus should be considered of ?Least Concern?both at global and national levels, with caution at local levels.