Cryptic local populations in a temperate rainforest bat Chalinolobus tuberculatus in New Zealand

Animal Conservation

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 287-297

  O'Donnell, Colin F J ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHALINOLOBUS TUBERCULATUS; NOTHOFAGUS; TUBERCULATUS;

EID: 0000699653     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1367943000001013     Document Type: Article

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