Bats in a Farming Landscape Benefit from Linear Remnants and Unimproved Pastures

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Lentini, Pia E ^a,b   Gibbons, Philip ^a   Fischer, Joern ^c   Law, Brad ^d   Hanspach, Jan ^c   Martin, Tara G ^e  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^d Forest Science Centre   (Australia)

^e CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BAT; BIOMASS; CHALINOLOBUS GOULDII; CHALINOLOBUS MORIO; CHALINOLOBUS PICATUS; CROP PROTECTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; MORMOPTERUS; NONHUMAN; NYCTOPHILUS; PASTURE; PEST CONTROL; RHINOLOPHUS MEGAPHYLLUS; SACCOLAIMUS FLAVIVENTRIS; SCOTOREPENS BALSTONI; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TADARIDA AUSTRALIS; VEGETATION; VESPADELUS DARLINGTONI; VESPADELUS REGULUS; VESPADELUS VULTURNUS; WEATHER; WILDLIFE;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CHIROPTERA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; NEW SOUTH WALES;

ARTHROPODA; AVES;

EID: 84869105349     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048201     Document Type: Article

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