The impact of rubber plantations on the diversity and activity of understorey insectivorous bats in southern Thailand

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1441-1456

  Phommexay, Phansamai ^a,b   Satasook, Chutamas ^a   Bates, Paul ^c   Pearch, Malcolm ^c   Bumrungsri, Sara ^a  

^a PRINCE OF SONGKLA UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF LAOS   (Laos)

^c Centre for Systematics and Biodiversity Research   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bat activity; Bat diversity; Echolocation call; Feeding buzz; Insect biomass; Rubber plantation; Tropical forest; Wing morphology

Indexed keywords

BAT; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; ECHOLOCATION; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; INSECTIVORE; PLANTATION; PROTECTED AREA; RAINFOREST; RUBBER; TROPICAL FOREST; UNDERSTORY; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT; WING MORPHOLOGY;

THAILAND;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 79956114018     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-011-0036-x     Document Type: Article

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