Sex-specific summer roost-site selection by seminole bats in response to landscape-level forest management

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 964-972

  Hein, Cris D ^a   Castleberry, Steven B ^a   Miller, Karl V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bats; Corridors; Forest management; Lasiurus seminolus; Pine; Pinus; Radiotelemetry; Roost site selection; Seminole bat; South Carolina

Indexed keywords

BAT; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; ROOST SITE; SITE SELECTION;

NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

LASIURUS SEMINOLUS;

EID: 51349126840     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/07-MAMM-A-335.1     Document Type: Article

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