Distribution, status and conservation of the bats of the Fiji Islands

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Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 509-519

  Palmeirim, Jorge M ^a   Champion, Alan ^b,e   Naikatini, Alifereti ^b   Niukula, Jone ^c   Tuiwawa, Marika ^b   Fisher, Martin ^b,f   Yabaki Gounder, Mere ^b   Thorsteinsdóttir, Sólveig ^a   Qalovaki, Stanley ^d   Dunn, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC   (Fiji)

^c Fiji National University   (Fiji)

^d Ministry of Agriculture   (Fiji)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^f FAUNA AND FLORA INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bats; Chaerephon bregullae; Emballonura semicaudata; Fiji; Mirimiri acrodonta; Notopteris macdonaldi; Pteropus samoensis; Pteropus tonganus

Indexed keywords

ARCHIPELAGO; BAT; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION STATUS; DEFORESTATION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENDEMIC SPECIES; POLLINATION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SEED DISPERSAL;

FIJI; MELANESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ACRODONTA; CHAEREPHON; EMBALLONURA SEMICAUDATA; NOTOPTERIS MACDONALDI; PTEROPUS SAMOENSIS; PTEROPUS TONGANUS;

EID: 36749005554     PISSN: 00306053     EISSN: 13653008     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0030605307004036     Document Type: Article

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