Analyzing NEXRAD doppler radar images to assess nightly dispersal patterns and population trends in Brazilian free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis)

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 24-39

  Horn, Jason W ^a   Kunz, Thomas H ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; HEXAPODA; NYCTICEIUS; TADARIDA BRASILIENSIS;

EID: 47249099857     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icn051     Document Type: Article

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