Size assortment in new world bat communities

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 644-658

  Stevens, Richard D ^a   Willig, Michael R ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bats; Community structure; Competition; Ecomorphology; Feeding guild; Meta analysis; Morphometrics; Null model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001490120     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1383309     Document Type: Article

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