Relationships between external morphology and foraging behaviour: Bats in the genus Myotis

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1004-1013

  Fenton, M Brock ^a   Bogdanowicz, Wieslaw ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; MORPHOLOGY; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES; WATER;

AERIAL FEEDERS;

BIODIVERSITY;

BAT; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MORPHOLOGY;

EPTESICUS; MYOTIS; NYCTERIS;

EID: 0036434906     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/z02-083     Document Type: Article

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