Habitat use by bats in a riparian corridor of the mojave desert in southern Nevada

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1145-1153

  Williams, Jason A ^a,c   O'Farrell, Michael J ^b   Riddle, Brett R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b O'Farrell Biological Consulting   (United States)

^c Nevada Department of Wildlife   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic monitoring; Community ecology; Conservation; Echolocation; Inventory; Microchiroptera; Species richness

Indexed keywords

BAT; BIOACOUSTICS; CAPTURE METHOD; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DESERT; ECHOLOCATION; HABITAT CORRIDOR; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT TYPE; HABITAT USE; RIPARIAN FOREST; SPECIES RICHNESS;

MOJAVE DESERT; NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ANTROZOUS; ANTROZOUS PALLIDUS; LASIURUS EGA; LASIURUS XANTHINUS; MACROTUS CALIFORNICUS; MICROCHIROPTERA; PROSOPIS; TADARIDA BRASILIENSIS;

EID: 33846050517     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/06-MAMM-A-085R2.1     Document Type: Review

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