Bat Predation by Spiders

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Nyffeler, Martin ^a   Knörnschild, Mirjam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAT; CAEROSTRIS DARWINI; CENTRONYCTERIS CENTRALIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COROMIOCNEMIS BRACHYRAMOSA; DOLOMEDES TRITON; EONYCTERIS SPELAEA; ERIOPHORA TRANSMARINA; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HETEROPODA VENATORIA; LASIODORA PARAHYBANA; MYOTIS AURASCENS; MYOTIS AUSTRORIPARIUS; MYOTIS BECHSTEINII; MYOTIS EMARGINATUS; MYOTIS KEENII; MYOTIS LUCIFAGUS; MYOTIS NATTERERI; MYOTIS NIGRICANS; NEPHILA; NEPHILA PIPIPES; NEPHILENGYS CRUENTATA; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMS BY GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; PHONISCUS PAPEUNSIS; POECILOTHERIA RUFILATA; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; REVIEW; RHYNCHONYCTERIS NASO; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPIDER; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; TYLONYCTERIS PACHYPUS;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; CHIROPTERA; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; MALE; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPIDERS;

EID: 84874862434     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058120     Document Type: Review

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