Interspecific competition and niche partitioning: Example of a neotropical rainforest bat community

Revue d'Ecologie (La Terre et la Vie)

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 149-165

  Delaval, Marguerite ^a   Henry, Mickaël ^a   Charles Dominique, Pierre ^b  

^a UMR 5176   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAT; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; NICHE PARTITIONING;

FRENCH GUIANA; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

CHIROPTERA;

EID: 21244494086     PISSN: 02497395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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