Bat community patterns on the Accra Plains of Ghana, West Africa

Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 129-142

  Decher, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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