Effects of selective logging on bat communities in the southeastern Amazon

Conservation Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1410-1421

  Peters, Sandra L ^a,b   Malcolm, Jay R ^a   Zimmerman, Barbara L ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans   (United States)

Author keywords

Brazil; Chiroptera; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BAT; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CANOPY; CAPTURE METHOD; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOLOCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; FOLIAGE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SELECTIVE LOGGING; TAXONOMY; TROPICAL FOREST; UNDERSTORY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAT; BRAZIL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FORESTRY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREE;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; CHIROPTERA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTRY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREES;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

CAROLLIINAE; CHIROPTERA; EMBALLONURIDAE; GLOSSOPHAGINAE; LONCHOPHYLLINAE; MORMOOPIDAE; PHYLLOSTOMINAE; STENODERMATINAE; VESPERTILIONIDAE;

EID: 33748945214     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2006.00526.x     Document Type: Article

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