Species-specific patterns of bat activity in an urban landscape

Ecological Applications

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 625-635

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

^a Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation   (United States)

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

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bats; Chiroptera; Eptesicus; Gradient; Illinois; Landscape; Lasiurus; Myotis; Pipistrellus; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; BAT; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; HABITAT USE; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; URBANIZATION;

CHIROPTERA; EPTESICUS; EPTESICUS FUSCUS; LASIONYCTERIS NOCTIVAGANS; LASIURUS; LASIURUS BOREALIS; LASIURUS CINEREUS; MYOTIS; PIPISTRELLUS; PIPISTRELLUS SUBFLAVUS;

EID: 1642376525     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-5013     Document Type: Article

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