A comparative analysis of specialization and extinction risk in temperate-zone bats

Conservation Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1293-1303

  Safi, Kamran ^a   Kerth, Gerald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chiroptera; Diet; Fecal analysis; Niche breadth; Wing morphology

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; DIET; EXTINCTION RISK; SPECIALIZATION; WING MORPHOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; CHIROPTERA;

EID: 5444273214     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2004.00155.x     Document Type: Article

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