Changes in abundance of hibernating bats in central Slovakia (1992-2009)

Biologia

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 349-361

  Uhrin, Marcel ^a,c   Benda, Petr ^b,c   Obuch, Ján ^d   Urban, Peter ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^d Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^e MATEJ BEL UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Carpathians; Chiroptera; Long term monitoring; TRends and Indices for Monitoring data (TRIM); Winter census

Indexed keywords

BARBASTELLA BARBASTELLUS; CHIROPTERA; MYOTIS MYOTIS; RHINOLOPHUS HIPPOSIDEROS;

EID: 77951719206     PISSN: 00063088     EISSN: 13369563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s11756-010-0020-z     Document Type: Article

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