Trends in abundance of hibernating bats in a Karst Region of the Southern Great Plains

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 331-339

  Prendergast, Jeffrey A ^a   Jensen, William E ^a   Roth, Stanley D ^b  

^a EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTROZOUS; ANTROZOUS PALLIDUS; CORYNORHINUS TOWNSENDII; EPTESICUS; EPTESICUS FUSCUS; MACROTUS; MYOTIS VELIFER; PIPISTRELLUS SUBFLAVUS;

EID: 77956587724     PISSN: 00384909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1894/MRD-10.1     Document Type: Article

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