Effects of land use on bat diversity in a complex plantation-forest landscape in Northeastern Brazil

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 720-731

  Heer, Katrin ^a,b   Helbig Bonitz, Maria ^a   Fernandes, Renato G ^c   Mello, Marco A R ^a,d   Kalko, Elisabeth K V ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MATO GROSSO DO SUL   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^e SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

acoustic monitoring; Atlantic Forest; fragmentation; land use; matrix habitat; mist netting

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ACOUSTIC SURVEY; BAT; BIODIVERSITY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LAND USE; NEOTROPICAL REGION; PLANTATION FORESTRY; SECONDARY FOREST; SPECIALIST; SPECIES RICHNESS; TRAP (EQUIPMENT);

ATLANTIC FOREST; BAHIA; BRAZIL;

PHYLLOSTOMIDAE; THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 84944070520     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: 15451542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyv068     Document Type: Article

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