Activity levels of bats and katydids in relation to the lunar cycle

Oecologia

Volumn 146, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 659-666

  Lang, Alexander B ^a   Kalko, Elisabeth K V ^b,c   Römer, Heinrich ^a   Bockholdt, Cecile ^d   Dechmann, Dina K N ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Activity patterns; Lunar phobia; Moonlight; Predator; Prey

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; BAT; LUNAR CYCLE; PREDATION RISK;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; MOON; ORTHOPTERA; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; ECOSYSTEM; MOON; OCULAR PHYSIOLOGY; ORTHOPTERA; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; LOPHOSTOMA SILVICOLA; TETTIGONIIDAE;

EID: 29144527369     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-005-0131-3     Document Type: Article

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