Effects of treefall gaps created by windthrow on bat assemblages in a temperate forest

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 261, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1546-1552

  Fukui, Dai ^a   Hirao, Toshihide ^b   Murakami, Masashi ^c   Hirakawa, Hirofumi ^a  

^a FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acoustic monitoring; Ecomorphological traits; Gap size; Natural disturbance; Spatial distribution; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MONITORING; ECOMORPHOLOGICAL TRAITS; GAP SIZE; NATURAL DISTURBANCE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ACOUSTIC MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; APARTMENT HOUSES; ASPECT RATIO; BIODIVERSITY; BUILDINGS; FORESTRY; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MAMMALS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

ACOUSTIC SURVEY; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BAT; CANOPY GAP; ECOMORPHOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FLIGHT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATE FOREST; TREEFALL;

ACOUSTICS; BIODIVERSITY; BUILDINGS; FORESTRY; HOUSES; MAMMALS; MONITORING;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 79952451189     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.02.001     Document Type: Article

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