Feathers as indicator of a bat's diet: A reply to Bontadina & Arlettaz

Functional Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 143-145

  Ibanez C ^a   Juste, J ^a   Garcia Mudarra J L ^a   Agirre Mendi, P T ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAT; DIET;

EID: 0037298436     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.2003.00702_2.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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