Dietary variation in spectacled flying foxes (Pteropus conspicillatus) of the Australian Wet Tropics

Australian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 417-428

  Parsons, Jennifer G ^a   Cairns, Andi ^a   Johnson, Christopher N ^a   Robson, Simon K A ^a   Shilton, Louise A ^b   Westcott, David A ^b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAT; BIOME; DICOTYLEDON; DIET; FECES; FOOD PREFERENCE; FRUGIVORY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

FICUS (ANGIOSPERM); MORACEAE; MYRTACEAE; PTEROPUS CONSPICILLATUS; PTEROPUS VAMPYRUS;

EID: 33846228839     PISSN: 0004959X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/ZO06092     Document Type: Article

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