Home-range Size and Habitat Used by the Northern Myotis (Myotis septentrionalis)

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 352-359

  Owen, Sheldon F ^a   Menzel, Michael A ^a   Ford, W Mark ^b   Chapman, Brian R ^c   Miller, Karl V ^d   Edwards, John W ^a   Wood, Petra Bohall ^e  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NE Forest Experiment Station ^*  (United States)

^c SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^e U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAT; CANOPY GAP; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT USE; HARVESTING; HOME RANGE; RANGE SIZE;

APPALACHIANS; UNITED STATES; WEST VIRGINIA;

CELLULAR ORGANISMS; MYOTIS KEENII; MYOTIS SEPTENTRIONALIS;

EID: 0142028839     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031(2003)150[0352:HSAHUB]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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