Habitat associations of bottomland bats, with focus on Rafinesque's big-eared bat and southeastern myotis

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 160, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 400-412

  Medlin Jr , Rex E ^a   Risch, Thomas S ^a  

^a ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; BAT; FEEDING GROUND; GROUND COVER; HABITAT USE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; ROOST SITE; ROOSTING; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

ARKANSAS; JONESBORO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

MACROTUS; MYOTIS AUSTRORIPARIUS; PLECOTUS RAFINESQUII; QUERCUS;

EID: 54949132579     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031(2008)160[400:HAOBBW]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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