Reproductive seasonality of the Egyptian fruit bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus) at the northern limits of its distribution

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1036-1042

  Lučan, Radek K ^a   Bartonička, Tomáš ^b   Benda, Petr ^a,c   Bilgin, Rasit ^d   Jedlička, Petr ^e   Nicolaou, Haris ^f   Reiter, Antonín ^g   Shohdi, Wael M ^h   Šálek, Martin ⁱ   Řeřucha, Šimon ^e   Uhrin, Marcel ^j   Abi Said, Mounir ^k   Horáček, Ivan ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^d BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e INSTITUTE OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS   (Czech Republic)

^f Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources Cyprus   (Cyprus)

^g South Moravian Museum in Znojmo   (Czech Republic)

^h Nature Conservation Egypt   (Egypt)

ⁱ INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^j P J AFÁRIK UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^k LEBANESE UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

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Author keywords

Chiroptera; desert; Mediterranean; phenology; Pteropodidae; reproduction; reproductive pattern

Indexed keywords

BAT; BIMODAL ASSOCIATION; BIRTH INTERVAL; DESERT; LACTATION; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PHENOLOGY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTIVE CYCLE; SEASONALITY;

CHIROPTERA; PTEROPODIDAE; ROUSETTUS AEGYPTIACUS;

EID: 84908638604     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: 15451542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/14-MAMM-A-035     Document Type: Article

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