Could localized warm areas inside cold caves reduce mortality of hibernating bats affected by white-nose syndrome?

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 92-98

  Boylee, Justin G ^a   Willis, Craig K R ^b  

^a INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAT; CAVE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ENERGY BALANCE; HIBERNATION; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; MORALITY; MORTALITY; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION MODELING; RANGE EXPANSION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SURVIVAL; WARMING;

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EID: 77949590700     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/080187     Document Type: Review

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