Climate change and the effects of temperature extremes on Australian flying-foxes

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1633, 2008, Pages 419-425

  Welbergen, Justin A ^a   Klose, Stefan M ^b,c   Markus, Nicola ^d   Eby, Peggy ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d WWF Australia   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chiroptera; Fruit bats; Global change; Heat waves

Indexed keywords

BAT; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COLONY; DEMOGRAPHY; GLOBAL CHANGE;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BEHAVIOR; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; FOX; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYPERTHERMIA; MALE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMOREGULATION;

CHIROPTERA; PTEROPODIDAE; PTEROPUS; PTEROPUS ALECTO; PTEROPUS POLIOCEPHALUS;

EID: 37849030500     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.1385     Document Type: Article

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