Effect of climatic and palaeoenvironmental changes on the occurrence of Holocene bats in the Swiss Alps

Holocene

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 711-721

  Blant, Michel ^a   Moretti, Marco ^b,c   Tinner, Willy ^d  

^a Swiss Institute for Speleology and Karst studies   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^c Bat Protection Center Ticino (CPT)   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

bats; indicators; palaeoclimate; palaeovegetation; radiocarbon dating; Swiss Alps

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BAT; BIOINDICATOR; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; COLD TOLERANCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT CREATION; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND USE CHANGE; MIXED FOREST; PALEOBIOLOGY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOTEMPERATURE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RADIOCARBON DATING; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VEGETATION HISTORY;

ALPS; SWITZERLAND;

MYOTIS BECHSTEINI; MYOTIS BLYTHII; MYOTIS BRANDTII; RHINOLOPHUS HIPPOSIDEROS;

EID: 77955576131     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683609358912     Document Type: Article

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