Bat road casualties and factors determining their number

Mammalia

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 138-142

  Lesiński, Grzegorz ^a  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Bat protection; Chiroptera; Landscape; Mortality; Roadkill ecology; Threats; Traffic casualties

Indexed keywords

BAT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; MORTALITY; ROAD;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; MAZOWIECKIE; POLAND; WARSAW;

CHIROPTERA; MYOTIS DAUBENTONI; NYCTALUS NOCTULA;

EID: 34948850767     PISSN: 00251461     EISSN: 18641547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/MAMM.2007.020     Document Type: Article

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