Adaptability and vulnerability of high flying Neotropical aerial insectivorous bats to urbanization

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 262-274

  Jung, Kirsten ^a   Kalko, Elisabeth K V ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Acoustic monitoring; Adaptability; Anthropogenic influence; Chiroptera; Conservation; Panama

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BAT; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DEMOGRAPHY; DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HABITAT TYPE; INSECTIVORE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOTROPICAL REGION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; VULNERABILITY;

ISTHMUS OF PANAMA; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

CHIROPTERA; MOLOSSIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79951681148     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2010.00738.x     Document Type: Article

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