Relative importance of the environmental factors at site and landscape scales for bats along the riparian zone

Landscape and Ecological Engineering

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 247-255

  Akasaka, Takumi ^a   Akasaka, Munemitsu ^b   Yanagawa, Hisashi ^c  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^c OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agricultural landscape; Conservation; Forest; Multiple spatial scales; Stream; Variation partitioning

Indexed keywords

EPTESICUS NILSSONI; MYOTIS DAUBENTONI; PLECOTUS AURITUS;

EID: 77954177662     PISSN: 18601871     EISSN: 1860188X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11355-010-0105-4     Document Type: Article

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