Bats and buildings: The conservation of synanthropic bats

Bats in the Anthropocene: Conservation of Bats in a Changing World

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 427-462

  Voigt, Christian C ^a   Phelps, Kendra L ^b   Aguirre, Luis F ^c   Corrie Schoeman, M ^d   Vanitharani, Juliet ^e   Zubaid, Akbar ^f  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Centro de Biodiversida y Genetica   (Bolivia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^e Sarah Tucker College   (India)

^f UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-25220-9_14     Document Type: Chapter

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