Contrasting home-range size and spatial partitioning in cryptic and sympatric pipistrelle bats

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 131-142

  Nicholls, B ^a   Racey, P A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cryptic species; Pipistrellus pipistrellus; Pipistrellus pygmaeus; Radio telemetry; Spatial partitioning

Indexed keywords

BAT; COEXISTENCE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HOME RANGE; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; RANGE SIZE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

PIPISTRELLUS PIPISTRELLUS; PIPISTRELLUS PYGMAEUS;

EID: 33749437461     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-006-0244-7     Document Type: Article

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