Seasonal changes in energetics and torpor patterns in the subtropical blossom-bat Syconycteris australis (Megachiroptera)

Oecologia

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 467-473

  Coburn, Dionne K ^a   Geiser, Fritz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Energetics; Nectar availability; Subtropical; Thermoregulation; Torpor

Indexed keywords

SYCONYCTERIS AUSTRALIS;

EID: 0031930044     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050399     Document Type: Article

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