Importance of prairie riparian zones to bats in southeastern Alberta

Ecoscience

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 115-122

  Holloway, Gillian L ^a   Barclay, Robert M R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Chiroptera; Eptesicus; Foraging; Insects; Lasiurus; Myotis

Indexed keywords

BAT; ECHOLOCATION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT USE; RIPARIAN ZONE;

ALBERTA; CANADA;

CERVIDAE; CERVUS ELAPHUS; CHIROPTERA; EPTESICUS; EPTESICUS FUSCUS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LASIURUS; MYOTIS; POPULUS; RIPARIA;

EID: 0033947178     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.2000.11682579     Document Type: Article

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