Trophic requirements beyond foraging habitats: The importance of prey source habitats in bat conservation

Biological Conservation

Volumn 191, Issue , 2015, Pages 512-519

  Arrizabalaga Escudero, Aitor ^a,b   Garin, Inazio ^a   García Mudarra, Juan Luis ^b   Alberdi, Antton ^a   Aihartza, Joxerra ^a   Goiti, Urtzi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

DNA metabarcoding; Landscape; Ontogenetic habitat shift; Predator prey interactions; Trophic requirements

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BAT; DIET; DNA; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEEDING GROUND; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT CONSERVATION; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LARVA; LITERATURE REVIEW; ONTOGENY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

ANIMALIA; LEPIDOPTERA; RHINOLOPHUS EURYALE;

EID: 84939554235     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2015.07.043     Document Type: Article

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