Calcium as a limiting resource to insectivorous bats: Can water holes provide a supplemental mineral source?

Journal of Zoology

Volumn 260, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 189-194

  Adams, Rick A ^a,e   Pedersen, Scott C ^b   Thibault, Katherine M ^c   Jadin, Jenna ^d   Petru, Brad ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN WHITEWATER   (United States)

^b SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Abiotic factors; Bats; Calcium; Colorado; Myotis; Vespertilionidae

Indexed keywords

BAT; CALCIUM; INSECTIVORE; MINERAL;

UNITED STATES;

CORYNORHINUS TOWNSENDII; EPTESICUS; EPTESICUS FUSCUS; LASIONYCTERIS NOCTIVAGANS; LASIURUS; LASIURUS CINEREUS; MYOTIS; MYOTIS CILIOLABRUM; MYOTIS EVOTIS; MYOTIS LUCIFUGUS; MYOTIS THYSANODES; MYOTIS VOLANS; VERTEBRATA; VESPERTILIONIDAE;

EID: 0038717352     PISSN: 09528369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952836903003613     Document Type: Article

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