Effects of different secondary vegetation types on bat community composition in Central Amazonia, Brazil

Animal Conservation

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 204-216

  Bobrowiec, P E D ^a,b   Gribel, R ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Bat community structure; Chiroptera; Habitat use; Landscape characteristic; Secondary forest

Indexed keywords

BAT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; HABITAT CREATION; ORDINATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; REVEGETATION; SECONDARY FOREST;

AMAZONIA; BRAZIL;

ANIMALIA; BOS; CECROPIA; CHIROPTERA; LILIUM; MORMOOPIDAE; PHYLLOSTOMIDAE; PHYLLOSTOMINAE; RHINOPHYLLA PUMILIO; STENODERMATINAE; STURNIRA LILIUM; STURNIRA TILDAE; VISMIA;

EID: 77952687784     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: 14691795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1795.2009.00322.x     Document Type: Article

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