Species interactions during diversification and community assembly in Malagasy Miniopterus bats

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 17-47

  Schoeman, M Corrie ^a   Goodman, Steven M ^b,c   Ramasindrazana, Beza ^d   Koubínová, Darina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^c ASSOCIATION VAHATRA   (Madagascar)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Chiroptera; Eltonian niche; Environmental niche models; Grinnellian niche; Miniopteridae; Niche conservatism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922104859     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: 15738477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10682-014-9745-4     Document Type: Article

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