Use of artificial roost structures by bats at the Indianapolis International Airport

Environmental Management

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 28-36

  Whitaker Jr , John O ^a   Sparks, Dale W ^a   Brack Jr , Virgil ^a  

^a INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial roost boxes; Bat houses; Bats; Chiroptera; Myotis septentrionalis; Myotis sodalis

Indexed keywords

AIRPORTS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; SURVEYING;

ARTIFICIAL ROOST BOXES; BAT HOUSES; BATS; CHIROPTERA; INDIANAPOLIS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT; MYOTIS SEPTENTRIONALIS; MYOTIS SODALIS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

BAT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HABITAT CREATION; ROOST SITE;

AIRPORT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; BAT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EPTESICUS FUSCUS; LASIONYCTERIS NOCTIVAGANS; MYOTIS LUCIFUGUS; MYOTIS SEPTENTRIONALIS; MYOTIS SODALIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION; UNITED STATES;

ACCLIMATIZATION; AIRCRAFT; ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; HOUSING, ANIMAL; INDIANA; NESTING BEHAVIOR;

INDIANA; INDIANAPOLIS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EPTESICUS; EPTESICUS FUSCUS; LASIONYCTERIS NOCTIVAGANS; MYOTIS; MYOTIS KEENII; MYOTIS LUCIFUGUS; MYOTIS SEPTENTRIONALIS; MYOTIS SODALIS;

EID: 33744767798     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-005-0117-2     Document Type: Article

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