The diet of Schreiber's bent-winged bat, Miniopterus schreibersii (Chiroptera: Miniopteridae), in northeastern Slovenia (Central Europe)

Mammalia

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 297-305

  Presetnik, Primož ^a   Aulagnier, Stéphane ^b  

^a Centre for Cartography of Fauna and Flora   (Slovenia)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Central Europe; Feeding ecology; Lepidoptera

Indexed keywords

BAT; DIET; FEEDING ECOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VOLUME;

SLOVENIA;

EID: 84888079351     PISSN: 00251461     EISSN: 18641547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2012-0033     Document Type: Article

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