Positive effects of forest fragmentation, independent of forest amount, on bat abundance in eastern Ontario, Canada

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 865-876

  Ethier, Kevin ^a   Fahrig, Lenore ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chiroptera; Habitat fragmentation; Habitat loss; Inter patch movement; Landscape composition; Landscape configuration; Landscape structure; Multi scale analysis; Resource proximity; Spatial heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

BAT; BIOACOUSTICS; BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FEEDING GROUND; FOREST COVER; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; ROOSTING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

CHIROPTERA; LASIONYCTERIS NOCTIVAGANS; LASIURUS BOREALIS; MYOTIS LUCIFUGUS; MYOTIS SEPTENTRIONALIS; PIPISTRELLUS SUBFLAVUS;

EID: 79958286417     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-011-9614-2     Document Type: Article

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