Potential for niche overlap in roosting sites between Nycticeius humeralis (evening bats) and Eptesicus fuscus (big brown bats)

Northeastern Naturalist

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 597-602

  Timpone, John C ^a   Boyles, Justin G ^a,b   Robbins, Lynn W ^a  

^a MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPTESICUS; EPTESICUS FUSCUS; NYCTICEIUS; NYCTICEIUS HUMERALIS;

EID: 33846924499     PISSN: 10926194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1656/1092-6194(2006)13[597:PFNOIR]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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