Urban maternity-roost selection by big brown bats in Colorado

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 728-736

  Neubaum, Daniel J ^a   Wilson, Kenneth R ^a   O'Shea, Thomas J ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic structures; Big brown bat; Eptesicus fuscus; Information theory; Landscape scale; Maternity roost selection; Microhabitat scale; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

BAT; MATERNAL CARE; RANGE EXPANSION; RIPARIAN FOREST; ROOST SITE; SITE SELECTION; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WATER AVAILABILITY;

COLORADO; FORT COLLINS; FRONT RANGE; NORTH AMERICA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EPTESICUS; EPTESICUS FUSCUS;

EID: 37549035560     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2005-684     Document Type: Article

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