Range extent and stand selection for roosting and foraging in forest-dwelling northern long-eared bats and little brown bats in the Greater Fundy Ecosystem, New Brunswick

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1174-1184

  Broders, Hugh G ^a,d   Forbes, Graham J ^a   Woodley, Stephen ^b   Thompson, Ian D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b PARKS CANADA   (Canada)

^c LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^d SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Foraging; Gender; Geographic Information System; Little brown bats; Movement; Myotis lucifugus; Myotis septentrionalis; Northern long eared bats; Parturition; Roosting

Indexed keywords

BAT; BIOMONITORING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT SELECTION; RANGE SIZE; ROOST SITE; ROOSTING;

CANADA; FUNDY NATIONAL PARK; NEW BRUNSWICK; NORTH AMERICA;

MYOTIS LUCIFUGUS; MYOTIS SEPTENTRIONALIS;

EID: 33845461433     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/0022-541X(2006)70[1174:REASSF]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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