Are flying-foxes coming to town? Urbanisation of the spectacled flying-fox (Pteropus conspicillatus) in Australia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Tait, Jessica ^a,b   Perotto Baldivieso, Humberto L ^a   McKeown, Adam ^b   Westcott, David A ^b  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; COHABITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLYING FOX; FOX; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HABITAT PATCHINESS; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HABITAT USE; HUMAN; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PTEROPUS CONSPICILLATUS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES HABITAT; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; ANIMAL; AUSTRALIA; BAT; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

PTEROPODIDAE; PTEROPUS CONSPICILLATUS;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; CHIROPTERA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84907856479     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0109810     Document Type: Article

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