Bats Track and Exploit Changes in Insect Pest Populations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  McCracken, Gary F ^a   Westbrook, John K ^b   Brown, Veronica A ^a   Eldridge, Melanie ^a   Federico, Paula ^a,c   Kunz, Thomas H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c CAPITAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

AGROECOSYSTEM; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BAT; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; BIOMASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; DNA DETERMINATION; FECES ANALYSIS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD INTAKE; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HELICOVERPA ZEA; MALE; MARKER GENE; MIGRATION; MOTH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEST INSECT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TADARIDA BRASILIENSIS;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; ECOSYSTEM; FECES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENETIC MARKERS; MOTHS; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

HELICOVERPA ZEA; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; TADARIDA BRASILIENSIS;

EID: 84865625318     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043839     Document Type: Article

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