Factors affecting Grey-headed Flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus: Pteropodidae) foraging in the Melbourne metropolitan area, Australia

Austral Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 600-608

  Mcdonald Madden, E ^a   Schreiber, E S G ^a   Forsyth, D M ^a   Choquenot, D ^a,b   Clancy, T F ^a  

^a ARTHUR RYLAH INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Flying fox; Logistic regression; Optimal foraging; Stratified random sampling; Urban ecology

Indexed keywords

BAT; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; URBAN ECOSYSTEM;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; MELBOURNE; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

PTEROPODIDAE; PTEROPUS POLIOCEPHALUS;

EID: 28244501322     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2005.01492.x     Document Type: Review

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