Roost and hunting site fidelity of female and juvenile Daubenton's bat Myotis daubentonii (Kuhl, 1817) (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae)

Mammalian Biology

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 267-275

  Kapfer, Géraldine ^a   Rigot, Thibaud ^a   Holsbeek, Ludo ^c   Aron, Serge ^b  

^a ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Myotis daubentonii; Site fidelity

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; BAT; HUNTING; JUVENILE; RADIOTELEMETRY; ROOST SITE; SITE FIDELITY;

CHIROPTERA; FAGUS; MYOTIS DAUBENTONI; VESPERTILIONIDAE;

EID: 44949091409     PISSN: 16165047     EISSN: 16181476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mambio.2007.01.001     Document Type: Article

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