Food habits of the barbastelle bat Barbastella barbastellus

Ecography

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 62-66

  Rydell, Jens ^a   Natuschke, Guenther ^b   Theiler, Alex ^c   Zingg, Peter E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b Oeko B AG ^*  (Germany)

^c Oeko B AG   (Switzerland)

^d NONE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARANEAE; BARBASTELLA BARBASTELLUS; CALLIPHORIDAE; CHIRONOMIDAE; COLEOPTERA; DIPTERA; HEMIPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; NEMATOCERA; NEUROPTERA; SCARABAEIDAE; TIPULIDAE; TRICHOPTERA; COELOPTERA; HOMOPTERA;

BARBASTELLE; BLOW FLY; CRANE FLY; DIET; DUNG BEETLE; MOTH;

GERMANY; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0030304983     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.1996.tb00155.x     Document Type: Article

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