Using hydrogen isotopes to assign origins of bats in the eastern United States

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 743-751

  Britzke, Eric R ^a   Loeb, Susan C ^b   Hobson, Keith A ^c   Romanek, Christopher S ^d   Vonhof, Maarten J ^e  

^a US ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^e WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bats; Interspecific variation; Intraspecific variation; Lasiurus borealis; Migration; Myotis lucifugus; Myotis septentrionalis; Myotis sodalis; Stable hydrogen isotope analysis

Indexed keywords

BAT; FEATHER; GIS; GROWING SEASON; HAIR; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LACTATION; MIGRATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PREGNANCY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STABLE ISOTOPE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; LASIURUS BOREALIS; MYOTIS LUCIFUGUS; MYOTIS SEPTENTRIONALIS; MYOTIS SODALIS;

EID: 67650000574     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/08-MAMM-A-211R2.1     Document Type: Article

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