Local variability in the diet of daubenton's bat (myotis daubentonii) in a lake landscape of Northern Germany

Folia Zoologica

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 36-41

  Nissen, Henning ^a   Krüger, Frauke ^a   Fichtner, Andreas ^a   Sommer, Robert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aerial hawking; Foraging; Hunting behaviour; Prey diversity; Trawling

Indexed keywords

BAT; DIET; DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HUNTING; LAKE; PREY AVAILABILITY; SAMPLING; TRAWLING;

GERMANY;

ARTHROPODA; CHIRONOMIDAE; MYOTIS DASYCNEME; MYOTIS DAUBENTONI; TRICHOPTERA; VESPERTILIONIDAE;

EID: 84885721196     PISSN: 01397893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.25225/fozo.v62.i1.a5.2013     Document Type: Article

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