First record of a possibly overlooked impact by alien parrots on a bat (Nyctalus leisleri)

Hystrix

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Menchetti, Mattia ^a   Scalera, Riccardo ^b   Mori, Emiliano ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Psittacula krameri fatal attack Leisler's bat introduced species populations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903141769     PISSN: 03941914     EISSN: 18255272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4404/hystrix-25.1-9989     Document Type: Article

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