Shifts in bat community structure related to evolved traits and features of human-altered landscapes

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 849-860

  Duchamp, Joseph E ^a,b   Swihart, Robert K ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agro ecosystem; Chiroptera; Co inertia; Community; Diversity; Evolution

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BAT; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; POPULATION DECLINE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

CHIROPTERA;

EID: 49849100918     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-008-9241-8     Document Type: Article

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