Effects of fine-scale foraging habitat selection on bat community structure and diversity in a temperate low mountain range forest

Folia Zoologica

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 263-276

  Kusch, Jürgen ^a   Schotte, Frederick ^a  

^a University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bat ecology; Biosphere reserve; Guild; Palatinate forest; Patch type; Vegetation structure

Indexed keywords

BAT; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT USE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MONTANE FOREST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYMPATRY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EPTESICUS SEROTINUS; MYOTIS DAUBENTONI; MYOTIS MYOTIS; NYCTALUS LEISLERI; PIPISTRELLUS PIPISTRELLUS; PLECOTUS AUSTRIACUS;

EID: 36049001455     PISSN: 01397893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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