Optimum effort to estimate habitat use when the individual animal is the sampling unit

Mammal Review

Volumn 35, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 295-301

  Smith, Peter G ^a,b   Racey, Paul A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b Bettws Cottage   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chiroptera; Compositional analysis; Euclidean distance; Habitat preference; Myotis nattereri; Natterer's bat; Radio tracking

Indexed keywords

BAT; ESTIMATION METHOD; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT TYPE; HABITAT USE; SAMPLING;

ANIMALIA; CHIROPTERA; MYOTIS NATTERERI;

EID: 33744821377     PISSN: 03051838     EISSN: 13652907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2907.2005.00074.x     Document Type: Article

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