Ecological considerations for landscape-level management of bats

Bats in Forests: Conservation and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 237-262

  Duchamp, Joseph E ^a   Arnett, Edward B ^b   Larson, Michael A ^c   Swihart, Robert K ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

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