Chiropteran diversity in different settings of the uplifted coral reef tropical forest of Taiwan

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1239-1247

  Lee, Ya Fu ^a   Kuo, Yen Min ^a   Chu, Wen Chen ^a   Lin, Yu Hsiu ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Assemblage; Bats; Chiroptera; Community; Diversity; Tropical forests

Indexed keywords

BAT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CORAL REEF; HETEROGENEITY; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPICAL FOREST;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

ANTHOZOA; CHIROPTERA; EPTESICUS SEROTINUS; HIPPOSIDEROS TERASENSIS; MINIOPTERUS SCHREIBERSII; MURINA PUTA; MYOTIS; MYOTIS MURICOLA; PIPISTRELLUS ABRAMUS; RHINOLOPHUS; RHINOLOPHUS MONOCEROS;

EID: 35549009809     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/07-MAMM-A-052.1     Document Type: Article

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