The importance of cenotes in conserving bat assemblages in the Yucatan, Mexico

Biological Conservation

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 499-509

  MacSwiney G , M Cristina ^a   Vilchis L , Patricia ^b   Clarke, Frank M ^a   Racey, Paul A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE YUCATÁN   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Assemblage composition; Bat; Cenotes; Chiroptera; Yucatan

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BAT; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DOMESTIC WASTE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HABITAT CONSERVATION; POLLINATOR; REFUGIUM; REGENERATION; SEED DISPERSAL; SINKHOLE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPICAL FOREST;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; YUCATAN;

ANIMALIA; CHIROPTERA; CHROTOPTERUS AURITUS; EPTESICUS FURINALIS; MICRONYCTERIS SCHMIDTORUM;

EID: 33947429725     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2006.12.021     Document Type: Article

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