Moving across the border: Modeling migratory bat populations

Ecosphere

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Wiederholt, Ruscena ^a   López Hoffman, Laura ^a   Cline, Jon ^b   Medellin, Rodrigo A ^c   Cryan, Paul ^d   Russell, Amy ^e   McCracken, Gary ^f   Diffendorfer, Jay ^g   Semmens, Darius ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b MITRE CORPORATION   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^d FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^e GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^g DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bat conservation; Breeding roosts; Mexican free tailed bats; Migratory patterns; Network models; Tadarida brasiliensis mexicana; U.S. Mexico cross border migration routes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901041882     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES13-00023.1     Document Type: Article

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