Bat activity in an urban landscape: Patterns at the landscape and microhabitat scale

Ecological Applications

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 939-950

  Gehrt, Stanley D ^a   Chelsvig, James E ^b  

^a Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation   (United States)

^b Forest Preserve Dist of Cook County   (United States)

Author keywords

Bats; Chiroptera; Illinois (USA); Landscape; Microhabitat; Urban ecology

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; BAT; MICROHABITAT; URBAN ECOSYSTEM;

ILLINOIS;

CHIROPTERA;

EID: 0346899492     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/02-5188     Document Type: Article

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