Evidence of Late-Summer Mating Readiness and Early Sexual Maturation in Migratory Tree-Roosting Bats Found Dead at Wind Turbines

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Cryan, Paul M ^a   Jameson, Joel W ^b   Baerwald, Erin F ^c   Willis, Craig K R ^b   Barclay, Robert M R ^c   Snider, E Apple ^a,d   Crichton, Elizabeth G ^e  

^a FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^d USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BAT; CANADA; DEATH; EASTERN RED BAT; EPIDIDYMIS TAIL; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; HOARY BAT; INDUSTRY; LASIONYCTERIS NOCTIVAGANS; LASIURUS BOREALIS; LASIURUS CINEREUS; MALE; MATING; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; OVARY FOLLICLE; PENIS GLANS; REPRODUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEMINAL VESICLE; SEXUAL MATURATION; SEXUAL MATURITY; SILVER HAIRED BAT; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; SUMMER; TESTIS; UNITED STATES; UTERUS; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINE;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; FEMALE; GENETIC FITNESS; HUMANS; MALE; NORTH AMERICA; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; PENIS; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; TIME FACTORS; WIND;

EID: 84867681981     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047586     Document Type: Article

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