Improving the biodiversity benefits of hedgerows: How physical characteristics and the proximity of foraging habitat affect the use of linear features by bats

Biological Conservation

Volumn 144, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1790-1798

  Boughey, Katherine L ^a   Lake, Iain R ^a   Haysom, Karen A ^b   Dolman, Paul M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b BAT CONSERVATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Habitat associations; Hedgerow management; Multi model inference with interactions; Noctule; Pipistrelle; Serotine

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SURVEY; AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; AGRICULTURAL LAND; BAT; BIODIVERSITY; DATA SET; FEEDING GROUND; HEDGEROW; INCENTIVE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RURAL AREA; TRANSECT; TREELINE; WOODLAND;

EPTESICUS SEROTINUS; NYCTALUS NOCTULA; PIPISTRELLUS; PIPISTRELLUS PIPISTRELLUS; PIPISTRELLUS PYGMAEUS;

EID: 79957633669     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.02.017     Document Type: Article

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