Echolocation calls and wing morphology of bats from the West Indies

Acta Chiropterologica

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 75-90

  Jennings, Nancy Vaughan ^a   Parsons, Stuart ^b   Barlow, Kate E ^c   Gannon, Michael R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c 2 The Paddock ^*  (United Kingdom)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antilles; Eco morphology; Fligth; Neotropics; Sonograms; Time expansion; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BAT; ECHOLOCATION; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FEEDING GROUND; FLIGHT; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; WING MORPHOLOGY;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; DOMINICA; GREATER ANTILLES; LEEWARD ISLANDS [LESSER ANTILLES]; LESSER ANTILLES; PUERTO RICO; SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES; WINDWARD ISLANDS [LESSER ANTILLES];

ARTIBEUS; ARTIBEUS JAMAICENSIS; BRACHYPHYLLA; BRACHYPHYLLA CAVERNARUM; EROPHYLLA BOMBIFRONS; EROPHYLLA SEZEKORNI; GLOSSOPHAGA; GLOSSOPHAGA LONGIROSTRIS; LILIUM; MONOPHYLLUS; MONOPHYLLUS PLETHODON; MORMOOPIDAE; MORMOOPS; MORMOOPS BLAINVILLII; NATALIDAE; NATALUS; NATALUS STRAMINEUS; PHYLLOSTOMIDAE; PLETHODON; PTERONOTUS DAVYI; PTERONOTUS PARNELLII; PTERONOTUS QUADRIDENS; STENODERMA RUFUM; STURNIRA; STURNIRA LILIUM;

EID: 3242888681     PISSN: 15081109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3161/001.006.0106     Document Type: Article

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