Diet of flat-headed bats, Tylonycteris pachypus and T. robustula, in Guangxi, South China

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 61-66

  Zhang, Libiao ^a   Jones, Gareth ^b   Rossiter, Stephen ^b   Ades, Gary ^c   Liang, Bing ^a   Zhang, Shuyi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Diet; Flat headed bats; Geographic variation; Resource partitioning; Seasonal variation; Sex variation; South China; Tylonycteris pachypus; Tylonycteris robustula

Indexed keywords

BAT; DIET; FECES; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GUANGXI ZHUANGZU; WORLD;

BLATTARIA; COLEOPTERA; DIPTERA; EMBIOPTERA; EPHEMEROPTERA; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; ORTHOPTERA; TRICHOPTERA; TYLONYCTERIS PACHYPUS; TYLONYCTERIS ROBUSTULA;

EID: 14044270773     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/1545-1542(2005)086<0061:DOFBTP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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