Characteristics of winter roosts of bat species in southern Finland

Mammalia

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 50-56

  Siivonen, Yrjö ^a   Wermundsen, Terhi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bats; Chiroptera; Eptesicus nilssonii; Hibernation; Humidity; Myotis brandtii mystacinus; Myotis daubentonii; Northern Europe; Plecotus auritus; Temperature

Indexed keywords

BAT; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; HABITAT SELECTION; HIBERNATION; HUMIDITY; ROOST SITE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WINTER;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

CHIROPTERA; EPTESICUS NILSSONI; MYOTIS; MYOTIS DAUBENTONI; MYOTIS MYSTACINUS; PLECOTUS AURITUS;

EID: 41049091234     PISSN: 00251461     EISSN: 18641547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/MAMM.2008.003     Document Type: Article

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