Behavior of scandinavian bats during migration and foraging at Sea

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1318-1323

  Ahlén, Ingemar ^a   Baagøe, Hans J ^b   Bach, Lothar ^c  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c Freilandforschung   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bats; Behavior; Chiroptera; Flight altitude; Foraging; Migration; Sea; Sonar

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BAT; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MORTALITY; OFFSHORE STRUCTURE; PREY AVAILABILITY; SEA LEVEL; SENSORY SYSTEM; SONAR; WIND POWER;

CHIROPTERA; CRUSTACEA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 73549087844     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: 15451542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/09-MAMM-S-223R.1     Document Type: Article

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