Migratory stopover in the long-distance migrant silver-haired bat, Lasionycteris noctivagans

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 377-385

  Mcguire, Liam P ^a   Guglielmo, Christopher G ^a   Mackenzie, Stuart A ^a,b   Taylor, Philip D ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b Bird Studies Canada   (Canada)

^c ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bat; Body composition; Migration; Roost selection; Stopover; Telemetry; Torpor; Torpor assisted migration

Indexed keywords

BAT; BREEDING SITE; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MIGRATORY SPECIES; MOVEMENT; RADIOTELEMETRY; ROOST SITE; SHORELINE; STOPOVER; TORPOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAT; BODY COMPOSITION; CANADA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FLYING; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SEASON; TELEMETRY; TIME;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BODY COMPOSITION; CHIROPTERA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MALE; MOVEMENT; ONTARIO; SEASONS; TELEMETRY; TIME FACTORS;

CANADA; GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE ERIE; LONG POINT; ONTARIO [CANADA];

AVES; LASIONYCTERIS; LASIONYCTERIS NOCTIVAGANS; PASSERI;

EID: 84856950467     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01912.x     Document Type: Article

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