Bats in a Carpathian beech-oak forest (Central Europe): Habitat use, foraging assemblages and activity patterns

Folia Zoologica

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 358-372

  Cel'uch, Martin ^a,b   Kropil, Rudolf ^b  

^a Slovak Bat Conservation Society   (Slovakia)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN ZVOLEN   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Beech; Chiroptera; Detector; Feeding sites; Oak

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; BAT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DETECTION METHOD; ECHOLOCATION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEEDING GROUND; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT USE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

CARPATHIANS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; CHIROPTERA; FAGUS;

EID: 57749195735     PISSN: 01397893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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