Body weight provides insight into the feeding strategy of swarming bats;Deduzioni sul comportamento alimentare dei pipistrelli durante lo ''swarming''a partire dall'analisi del peso corporeo

Hystrix

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 179-187

  Šuba, Jurģis ^a   Vintulis, Viesturs ^a   Petersons, Gunars ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA   (Latvia)

^b LATVIA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Latvia)

Author keywords

Body condition index; Chiroptera; Feeding strategy; Myotis

Indexed keywords

CHIROPTERA; MYOTIS; MYOTIS BRANDTII; MYOTIS DASYCNEME; MYOTIS DAUBENTONI;

EID: 80051532185     PISSN: 03941914     EISSN: 18255272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4404/Hystrix-22.1-4516     Document Type: Article

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