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Geographical range of the Long-nosed Bat meta populationof the ABC islandsImage credit: Google Earth
BREAKING NEWS: Dutch Caribbean Long-nosed Bats Now Recaptured in Venezuela
Editor’s Notes This month’s issue is all about migration. An ex-citing discovery in Venezuela of bats originally tagged on Aruba and Bonaire, confirms their long distance travel between our islands and the South American continent. In St. Maarten waters, Humpback Whales were tagged to gain insight in their migratory routes as a way to improve conservation strategies for these majestic marine mammals. Several Humpback Whales were fitted with satellite transmitters that provide a ‘live feed’ of the animal’s loca-tion. On St. Eustatius research efforts are be-ginning to shed more light on a very elusive bird species: The Bridled Quail-dove.
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This IssueBats Recaptured in Venezuela 1
Reports And Publications 2Monitoring Overview 3
Whale Tracking on St. Maarten 4Bridled Quail-dove on St. Eustatius 6
Reports And Publications 7Calendar 8
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Dutch Caribbean Nature AllianceSafeguarding nature in the Dutch Caribbean
Exactly one year ago, researchers from STINA-
PA Bonaire’s Natural and Historic Resources
Unit recaptured a Long-nosed Bat (Leptonyct-
eris curasoae) on Bonaire originally tagged on
Curaçao, confirming that this species migrates
between the islands. Over the last year, Aruba
was added to the list when bats ringed on Bo-
naire were recaptured on Aruba. These recap-
tures demonstrated that there is a meta-pop-
ulation of Long-nosed Bats moving between
all three islands. Thanks to ongoing monitor-
ing of this nocturnal flying mammal by a team
of dedicated researchers, we now know that
these bats migrate as far as Venezuela.
In March 2014, three Long-nosed Bats tagged on Aruba and one on Bonaire were recaptured in Venezuela by a team of scientists, led by Dr. Jafet Nassar from the Venezuelan Institute for Scien-tific Research (IVIC). The recaptures took place close to the city of Coro in the state of Falcón in mainland Venezuela. This was the ‘missing piece of the puzzle’ of the migratory and long-distance movements of these amazing creatures. This exciting discovery is the product of more than five years of monitoring by STINAPA Bonaire, CARMABI, Fundacion Parke Nacional Arikok and IVIC. During this time, more than 6,000 individual bats were captured and tagged.
The Long-nosed Bat has an important ecologi-cal role on the ABC islands as a key pollinator species for several species of columnar cacti. This discovery adds to our understanding of mammalian ecology and the population dy-namics of this keystone species and could have significant implications for the management and conservation of bat populations on the Dutch Caribbean islands and abroad.
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Long-nosed Bat hanging upside down from the ceiling of a cave in the Aruban Parke Nacional ArikokPhoto credit: Christian König
Below you will find an overview of the research work underway in the Dutch Caribbean in March 2014.
Category Subject Islands Organisation: Lead Scientist
Mammals Invasive Vervet Monkey survey SXM Nature Foundation: Etienne Lake
Mammals Bat species inventory SXM Nature Foundation: Tadzio Bervoets
Birds Pilot study of post-fledging survival of Yellow-shouldered Amazon Parrots BON Echo: Sam Williams
Crustaceans Assessment of discards and size-at-maturity of female lobsters SAB SCF: Jimmy van Rijn
Corals Growth and regeneration capacities of Staghorn corals in coral nurseries BON IMARES: Erik Meesters
Plants Statia Morning Glory habitat characteristics EUX STENAPA: Hannah MaddenVHL: Sheila de Leeuw
Plants Phenology study of Yellow-shouldered Amazon food tree species BON Echo: Sam Williams
Plants Seagrass beds assessment (extent, health impacts and threats) SXM Nature Foundation: Tadzio Bervoets
Invasives Invasive seagrass colonisation, productivity and herbivory by sea turtles in Lac Bay BON
STCB: Mabel NavaSTINAPA Bonaire: Sabine EngelVU: Tineke van Bussel
Invasives Possible suppression/eradication methods for the White Leadtree EUX STENAPA: Hannah MaddenVHL: Sheila de Leeuw
Geological Vulcanic vents assessment SAB ANU: Richard Arculas
Social Attitudes towards Lesser Antillean Iguana EUX STENAPA: Ian Docherty
Ecosystem research
Quantitative community/ecosystem (flora & fauna) population ecology assessment and neural network models SAB Adrian Delnevo
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Research Overview
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Below you will find an overview of the monitoring programmes for which fieldwork took place on the islands in March 2014. Please check our website for a complete overview of all long-term monitoring programmes that are in place in the Dutch Caribbean (www.dcnanature.org/resources/research-monitoring)
Category Subject Islands Organisation: Lead Scientist
Mammals Marine mammal sightings1
BON,SAB, EUX, SXM
BON: Martin de GraafSCF: Kai WulfSTENAPA: Jessica BerkelNature Foundation: Tadzio Bervoets
Mammals Whale tagging project SXM Nature Foundation: Tadzio BervoetsRésèrve Naturelle de St. Martin
Mammals Bat abundance, distribution, reproduction and behaviour ARU, BON
FPNA: Indra ZaandamSTINAPA Bonaire: Fernando SimalCARMABI: Clifford de LannoyIVIC: Jafet Nassar
Birds Aruba National Bird Count 2014 ARU FPNA
Birds Terrestrial bird surveys according to habitat type BON Echo: Sam Williams
Birds Red-billed Tropicbirds diet composition SAB Adrian Delnevo SCF: Kai Wulf
Birds Red-billed Tropicbirds breeding success (and egg loss) SAB, EUX
Adrian Delnevo SCF: Kai Wulf STENAPA: Hannah Madden
Birds Flamingo abundance (monthly counts) BON DRO: Frank van Slobbe STINAPA Bonaire: Fernando Simal
Reptiles Sea turtle nesting and beach patrolARU, EUX, SXM
TurtugarubaSTENAPA: Jessica BerkelNature Foundation: Tadzio Bervoets
Reptiles Sea turtle in-water surveys SXM Nature Foundation: Tadzio BervoetsReptiles Sea turtle foraging grounds monitoring BON STCB: Mabel Nava
Reptiles Sea turtle sightingsBON, EUX, SXM
STCB: Mabel Nava STENAPA: Jessica Berkel Nature Foundation: Tadzio Bervoets
Fish Fisheries landingsBON, SAB, EUX
IMARES: Martin de Graaf, Teun Boon, Erik Tichelaar (Bonaire)SCF: Jimmy van Rijn (Saba)LVV: Erik Boman (St. Eustatius)
Fish Shark tagging and migration SXM Nature Foundation: Tadzio BervoetsFish Shark observations by divers SAB IMARES: Martin de Graaf & SeaSaba
Mollusks Queen Conch reproduction, distribution & abundance SAB, EUX
IMARES: Martin de Graaf SCF: Jimmy van Rijn LVV: Erik Boman (St. Eustatius)
Crustaceans Lobster reproduction SAB,EUX
IMARES: Martin de GraafSCF: Jimmy van RijnLVV: Erik Boman
Crustaceans Lobster larvae abundance SAB, EUX
IMARES: Martin de Graaf SCF: Jimmy van Rijn LVV: Erik Boman
Plants Reforestation project on Klein Bonaire BON STINAPA: Elsmarie Beukenboom
Plants Phenology study of cyclic activity columnar cacti and agave(associated with ongoing bat monitoring programme)
ARU, BON
FPNA: Indra Zaandam STINAPA Bonaire: Fernando Simal
Plants Phenology study of columnar cacti and native tree species on Bonaire BON STINAPA Bonaire: Paulo Bertuol & Fernando Simal
Plants Ongoing study of flora of Aruba, Bonaire and CuraçaoARU, BON, CUR
Naturalis/WUR: André van Proosdij
Terrestrial Biodiversity Habitat structure, composition, and diversity; remote and automated monitoring of invertebrates, mammals, birds, amphibians and reptiles SAB Adrian Delnevo
SCF: Kai Wulf
Invasives Lionfish abundance
ARU, BON, CUR, SAB, EUX, SXM
STINAPA Bonaire: Ramon de Leon CARMABI: Mark Vermeij SCF: Jimmy van Rijn STENAPA Nature Foundation: Tadzio Bervoets
Environmental Water quality in Simpson Bay Lagoon and Great Bay and ponds SXM Nature Foundation: Tadzio Bervoets with SLAC
Environmental Water quality sampling Mullet Bay, Oyster Bay, Little Bay SXM EPIC: Rueben Thompson
Environmental Cloud forest monitoring of variable environmental parameters on Mt. Scenery, Windwardside and Fort Bay SAB SCF: Tom van ’t Hof & Kai Wulf
Human impact Diver visitation
BON, SAB,EUX, SXM
STINAPA Bonaire: Ramon de LeonSCF: Kai WulfSTENAPANature Foundation: Tadzio Bervoets
1. As part of fisheries monitoring on Saba and St. Eustatius by Meike Scheidat and Martin de Graaf (IMARES).
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In 2008, the Regional Activity Centre of the Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife Protocol (SPAW-RAC) adopted a Marine Mammal Action Plan at their Conference of Parties, which rec-ommends the implementation of a cooperative strategy for conservation and management of marine mammals in the Caribbean. The aim of this plan is to facilitate the management of ma-rine mammal migration corridors and protected areas for marine wildlife populations common to several countries.
At the Second International Conference on Marine Mammal Protected Areas (ICMMPA) in 2011, the Dominican Republic, France for the Agoa Sanctuary, covering Guadeloupe, Mar-tinique, Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy, the Netherlands for the Dutch Caribbean islands, and the U.S.A. for the Stellwagen Bank Sanc-
tuary, demonstrated their commitment to this initiative, by establishing “twinning” partner-ships. In 2012 regional parties adopted a stan-dardised scientific protocol on observation and identification of marine mammals in the EEZ of the French Antillean islands, the Dutch Carib-bean islands and the British island of Anguilla. The sanctuaries of these collaborating govern-ments together make up an enormous area designated for the conservation and protection of marine mammals.
The first phase of the “Megara Project” took place between 24 March and 3 April 2014 in the waters of Saint-Martin, Saint-Barthélemy and Anguilla. The St. Maarten Nature Foundation joined La Résèrve Naturelle de Saint-Martin, the conservation organisation for the Agoa Sanctu-ary, and its marine conservation partners for
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The marine mammals in Dutch Caribbean waters, from the smaller dolphin species to the larger
Humpback Whales, have always received a lot of attention. Not so long ago the plan to desig-
nate the Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) around Saba, St. Eustatius and St. Maarten as a marine
mammal sanctuary was set in motion. However, little is still known about the exact migratory
routes species like the Humpback Whale use, or where these whales that frequent the waters
of the northern Lesser Antilles from January to June migrate to, or even why they come to our
waters. Other species, like the Sperm Whale, also frequent our waters, but are they the same
individuals that are seen in Guadeloupe and Dominica? And are these waters also used as a
nursery by Sperm Whales? These are some of the questions a ten-day scientific mission bap-
tised “Megara Project” hopes to answer.
Humpback Tagging Project in St. Maarten Watersby Tadzio Bervoets (Nature Foundation)
Humpback Whale mother with calf spotted in the waters around Saint-Martin.Photo credit: Megara Project
The Agoa Sanctuary The Agoa Sanctuary cov-ers the territorial waters and Exclusive Economic Zones of Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy and is a vast 138,000 km2. It was established in 2010 to reinforce the protection of emblem-atic yet threatened cetaceans, to sustainably manage their habitats and to ensure that they are considered in the development of human activities.
The Sanctuary for the Marine Mammals of the Dominican Republic The Sanctuary for the Marine Mammals of the Dominican Republic was established in its current form in 1996 and meas-ures around 25,000 km2. It encompasses not only the shallower calving and breeding grounds of the Silver Bank, Navidad Bank and Samana Bay, but also all of the deeper ocean waters between, which are heavily trav-elled migration routes for whales headed to other parts of the Caribbean.
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Humpback Whale on the Stellwagen BankPhoto credit: Kai Wulf
With the information from this project, the Na-ture Foundation and its partners will lobby for a whale sanctuary to be established in local waters. The research also suggests that whale-watching activities done under proper guide-lines may be a beneficial activity and help to boost the economy of St. Maarten.
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the duration of the project. Argos marine trans-mitters were implanted into the fatty tissue of seven Humpback Whales which will allow sci-entists to follow their journey via satellite track-ing. Led by Mads Peter Heide-Jørgenson of the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, the project also included taking skin samples of the tagged Humpback Whales for DNA analy-sis. These samples will be analysed by Dr. Per J. Palsbøll at the Dutch University of Groningen to determine the sex and origin of each individual. The samples will be compared to a database of over 8,500 samples collected from animals in the Northern Atlantic. This may help to resolve speculation within the scientific community that local Humpback Whales migrate to Green-land or the coast of Norway.
The project also includes an exciting edu-cational component. The deployed satellite tags transmit real-time information on their location via satellites, so the public can fol-low the migratory path of the whales live on the internet (http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/?project_id=979). At the time of writing, one Humpback Whale is travelling in northeastern direction towards the open At-lantic Ocean, one is travelling in northwestern direction towards Florida and one is currently residing in Barbudan waters. The remaining four stopped transmitting several days after deployment.
Geographical location of four Marine Mammal Sanctuaries in the northern Caribbean and western Atlantic.Image credit: Google Earth
The Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary The Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctu-ary was established by US Congress in 1992. Measuring over 2,180 km2, the area is heavily used by maritime ship-ping and as a migratory route for several whale species. Close monitor-ing of marine mammals is necessary to prevent ship strikes and net entanglement and consists of visual and acoustic monitoring and tagging whales to better understand their behav-iour in the sanctuary and nearby waters.
The Dutch Caribbean Marine Mammal Sanctuary The Dutch Caribbean Marine Mammal Sanctu-ary will be officially established later this year. It encompasses the Exclusive Economic Zones of Dutch Caribbe-an Windward Islands and measures roughly 22,000 km2. It includes the well-known Saba Bank, which takes up 10% of the total area. Whales visit the area frequently on their migratory routes and the Saba Bank is thought to be a calving area for Humpback Whales due to its relatively shallow depth compared to the surrounding waters.
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Bridled Quail-dove Research on St. Eustatiusby Catherine McLaughlin
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Little is known about the Bridled Quail-dove. It is endemic to the Caribbean. Resident in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and parts of the Lesser Antilles, the species is considered uncommon to extremely rare throughout much of its range.
Due to their rareness, sightings of Bridled Quail-doves scurrying along the forest floor, bobbing rhythmically on a branch or showing off their rich rust coloured under-wing often cause such excitement that a study of their real abundance and distribution was called for.
Recent research on the Bridled Quail-dove has been conducted on St. Eustatius by STENAPA, under the leadership of Dr. Adrian Delnevo. The study aimed to use the dove’s habitat prefer-ences to determine their distribution. In combi-nation with abundance data from surveyed ar-eas, this was used to extrapolate the island wide population. Vegetation and topographic data were also collected and used to find predictors of Bridled Quail-dove abundance that could be used to inform management strategies. A total of 25 birds were observed throughout six weeks of field study, sometimes in such close succes-sion that was hard to verify them as indepen-dent sightings. This figure is worryingly small.
Given the rarity of sightings and general lack of information on this species, there are concerns that the population may be in decline.
This may be due to the presence of introduced predators. Cats and rats have frequently been linked to population crashes in other bird spe-cies as a result of predation on chicks and eggs. Cameras traps deployed in Bridled Quail-dove habitat have shown that cats are indeed present, and there is a noteworthy abundance of rats.
Habitat fragmentation may be limiting their range and hence population size of the bird. However, the limited knowledge of habitat pref-erences makes this hypothesis difficult to test. The extent of this problem is likely to be related to how specific the needs (such as dietary and
nesting preferences) of the Bridled Quail-dove are. There are records of them foraging through the leaf litter for fruits and seeds, however more extraordinary is an account of a bird consuming a gecko, suggesting their tastes may be quite di-verse. Information about their nesting preferenc-es is limited to a few accounts of individual birds.
Habitat change associated with Climate Change may be having an effect; the birds predominantly live in tropical dry forest, and where this forest type is undergoing climate-induced shrinkage, the remaining habitat may not be able to sup-port the entire population. Should temperature change cause phenological changes to the bird’s dietary components (for example, when the life-cycles of seasonally affected fruiting plants and their pollinators lose synchronicity as a result of temperature changes), food may become scarcer.
The preliminary study findings show that Bridled Quail-dove presence is best predicted by high percentage leaf litter, independent of tree spe-cies, and relatively smaller trees (low diameter at breast height). These habitat traits are found within crater of the Quill where the dove density was highest. Leaf litter is likely frequented by these ground-dwelling birds for the nourishing fruits and seeds hidden within. Management of the dry forest for the benefit of Bridled Quail-doves should support the maintenance, and possible enhancement, of tree density to sustain the canopy cover that yields a foraging leaf litter habitat.
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The Bridled Quail-dove (Geotrygon mystacea) is member of the Columbidae, better- known members of which include the notorious city pigeon and the luminous white bird famed for having alerted Noah of improving weather conditions. Doves and pigeons are frequently con-fused and there are no concrete distinctions between the two, other than size perhaps. Bridled Quail-doves are more vibrant and beloved than their city-dwelling relatives and a further, more worrying difference is their abundance, or lack of it.
Bridled Quail-dove on St. EustatiusPhoto credit: Hannah Madden
Conservation Organisations ofthe Dutch Caribbean
ArubaFundacion ParkeNacional Arikoktel: +297-585-1234www.arubanationalpark.org
BonaireSTINAPA Bonairetel: +599-717-8444www.stinapa.org
BonaireSTCBtel: +599-717-2225www.bonaireturtles.org
BonaireEchotel. +599-701-1188www.echobonaire.org
CuraçaoCARMABItel: +599-9-462-4242www.carmabi.org
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List of Acronyms
ARU Aruba
BON Bonaire
CUR Curaçao
BON Bonaire
SAB Saba
EUX St. Eustatius (Statia)
SXM St. Maarten
ANU Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
CaMPAM Caribbean Marine Protected Areas Management
CARMABI Caribbean Research and Management of Biodiversity Foundation
CBD Convention on Biological Diversity
CIEE Council on International Educational Exchange
DCBD Dutch Caribbean Biodiversity Database
DCNA Dutch Caribbean Nature Alliance
DRO Directorate of Spatial Planning and Development, Bonaire
EPIC Environmental Protection In the Caribbean, St. Maarten
EEZ Exclusive Economic Zone
FPNA Fundacion Parke Nacional Arikok
IMARES Institute for Marine Resources and Ecosystem Studies
IUCN International Union for the Conservation of Nature
IMO International Maritime Organization
IVIC Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research
LVV Department of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries
Min EZ Ministry of Economic Affairs
NBC Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, The Netherlands
SCF Saba Conservation Foundation
SLAC Simpson Bay Lagoon Authority Corporation, St. Maarten
STCB Sea Turtle Conservation Bonaire
STENAPA St. Eustatius National Parks
STINAPA Stichting Nationale Parken Bonaire
TEEB The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity
UoS University of Sheffield, UK
VHL Van Hall Larenstein University, the Netherlands
VU Amsterdam University, the Netherlands
WIDECAST Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Network
WKICS WolfsKater International Consultancy Services B.V.
WUR Wageningen University and Research Center, the Netherlands
Below you will find an overview of the reports and publications on biodiversity related subjects in the Dutch Caribbean that have recently been published. The listed publications can be downloaded from the Dutch Carib-bean Biodiversity Database (DCBD) - www.dcbd.nl/resources
Beek, I.J.M. van; Debrot, A.O.; Walker, P.A.; Kingma, I. (2014)Shark protection plan for the Dutch Caribbean EEZ. Wageningen IMARES Report no. C209/13 - p.104
Burg, W.J. van der; Freitas, J.A. de; Debrot, A.O. (2014) Seed germination methods for native Caribbean trees and shrubs: with emphasis on species relevant for Bonaire. Wageningen. Plant Research International Report no. 551 - p.60
Côté I.M.; Darling, E.S.; Malpica-Cruz, L.; Smith, N.S.; Green, S.J.; Curtis-Quick, J.; Layman, C. (2014) What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Wary? Effect of Repeated Culling on the Behaviour of an Invasive Predator. PLoS ONE 9(4): e94248. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0094248
Johnson, A.E.; Saunders, D.K. (2014) Time preferences and the management of coral reef fisheries. Ecological Economics 100: 130-139. doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2014.01.004
Luksenburg, J.A. (2014) Prevalence of External Injuries in Small Cetaceans in Aruban Waters, Southern Caribbean. PLoS ONE 9(2): e88988. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0088988
Meijer zu Schlochtern, M. (2014) Population status and reproductive biology of queen conch (Lobatus gigas) in the coastal waters around St Eustatius. MSc Thesis Report. p.69
Mueller, B.; Goeij, J.M. de; Vermeij, M.J.A.; Mulders, Y.; Ent, E. van der; Ribes, M.; Duyl, F.C. van (2014) Natural Diet of Coral-Excavating Sponges Consists Mainly of Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC). PLoS ONE 9(2): e90152. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0090152
Smith, S.R.; Burg, W.J. van der; Debrot, A.O.; Buurt, G. van; Freitas, J.A. de (2014)Key elements towards a Joint Invasive Alien Species Strategy for the Dutch Caribbean. Wageningen IMARES Report no. C020/14. Plant Research International Report no. 550 - p.102
Reports and Publications Conservation Organisations of the Dutch Caribbean
CuraçaoStichting Uniek Curaçaotel: +599-9-462-8989 / 6632www.uniekcuracao.org
SabaSaba Conservation Foundationtel: +599-416-3295www.sabapark.org
St. EustatiusSTENAPAtel: +599-318-2884www.statiapark.org
St. MaartenNature Foundation tel: +721-544-4267www.naturefoundationsxm.org
St. MaartenEmilio Wilson Estate FDNtel: +1-721-524-1516www.sxmconservation-foundations.org/ewef
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Conservation Organisations of the Dutch Caribbean
CuraçaoStichting Uniek Curaçaotel: +599-9-462-8989 / 6632www.uniekcuracao.org
SabaSaba Conservation Foundationtel: +599-416-3295www.sabapark.org
St. EustatiusSTENAPAtel: +599-318-2884www.statiapark.org
St. MaartenNature Foundation tel: +721-544-4267www.naturefoundationsxm.org
St. MaartenEmilio Wilson Estate FDNtel: +1-721-524-1516www.sxmconservation-foundations.org/ewef
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