Predictive occurrence models for bat species in California

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 693-700

  Duff, Andrew A ^a,b   Morrell, Thomas E ^c  

^a BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE   (United States)

^c Imperial Valley College   (United States)

Author keywords

Bats; Big brown bat; California; Eptesicus fuscus; Lasionycteris noctivagans; Logistic regression; Myotis yumanensis; Predicting species occurrence; Silver haired bat; Yuma myotis

Indexed keywords

BAT; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; LOGISTICS; PREDICTION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WHISKEYTOWN NATIONAL RECREATION AREA;

ANTROZOUS PALLIDUS; EPTESICUS; EPTESICUS FUSCUS; LASIONYCTERIS; LASIONYCTERIS NOCTIVAGANS; LASIURUS BOREALIS; LASIURUS CINEREUS; MYOTIS YUMANENSIS; TADARIDA BRASILIENSIS;

EID: 53949123377     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2005-692     Document Type: Article

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