Bats' conquest of a formidable foraging niche: The myriads of nocturnally migrating songbirds

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Popa Lisseanu, Ana G ^a   Delgado Huertas, Antonio ^b   Forero, Manuela G ^a   Rodríguez, Alicia ^b   Arlettaz, Raphaël ^c,d   Ibáñez, Carlos ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d SWISS ORNITHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BAT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FORAGING; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; NYCTALUS LASIOPTERUS; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PREDICTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SONGBIRD; SPRING; ANIMAL; BLOOD; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INSECT; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; PREDATION; SEASON;

NYCTALUS LASIOPTERUS;

CARBON; NITROGEN;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; CARBON ISOTOPES; CHIROPTERA; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INSECTS; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEASONS; SONGBIRDS;

EID: 40949165204     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000205     Document Type: Article

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