Effects of tropical forest fragmentation on aerial insectivorous bats in a land-bridge island system

Biological Conservation

Volumn 143, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 597-608

  Estrada Villegas, Sergio ^a   Meyer, Christoph F J ^b   Kalko, Elisabeth K V ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Acoustic monitoring; Bat detector; Chiroptera; Echolocation; Isolation; Neotropics

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BAT; ECHOLOCATION; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; INSECTIVORE; NEOTROPICAL REGION; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

CHIROPTERA; PHYLLOSTOMIDAE;

EID: 76649116208     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2009.11.009     Document Type: Article

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