The potential availability of roosting sites for lesser short‐tailed bats (Mystacina tuberculata) on Kapiti Island, New Zealand: Implications for a translocation

New Zealand Journal of Zoology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 219-226

  Ruffell, Jay ^a,c   Sedgeley, Jane ^b   Parsons, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

^c Bioresearches Group Limited   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Cavities; Habitat quality; Kapiti Island; Mystacina tuberculata; Mystacinidae; Roosts; Short tailed bat; Translocation

Indexed keywords

BAT; COLONY; HABITAT QUALITY; ROOST SITE; ROOSTING; TRANSLOCATION; TREE;

AUSTRALASIA; KAPITI ISLAND; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; WELLINGTON [NORTH ISLAND];

MYSTACINA TUBERCULATA; MYSTACINIDAE;

EID: 35748973908     PISSN: 03014223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03014220709510080     Document Type: Article

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