City life makes females fussy: Sex differences in habitat use of temperate bats in urban areas

Royal Society Open Science

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Lintott, Paul R ^a   Bunnefeld, Nils ^a   Fuentes Montemayor, Elisa ^a   Minderman, Jeroen ^a   Mayhew, Rebekah J ^a   Olley, Lena ^a   Park, Kirsty J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bats; Fragmented woodland; Habitat use; Sex differences; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929342002     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20545703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.140200     Document Type: Article

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