The significance of water infrastructures for the conservation of bats in a semiarid Mediterranean landscape

Animal Conservation

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 533-541

  Lison F ^a   Calvo, J F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Artificial water body; Chiroptera; Habitat use; Irrigation agriculture; Tagus Segura water transfer

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BAT; HABITAT TYPE; HABITAT USE; INFRASTRUCTURE; PROTECTED AREA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMIARID REGION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; WATER RESOURCE;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; SPAIN;

ANIMALIA; CHIROPTERA; MYOTIS CAPACCINII; MYOTIS DAUBENTONI; PIPISTRELLUS; PIPISTRELLUS PIPISTRELLUS; PIPISTRELLUS PYGMAEUS;

EID: 80755143279     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: 14691795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1795.2011.00460.x     Document Type: Article

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