Mobility explains the response of aerial insectivorous bats to anthropogenic habitat change in the Neotropics
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2015.02.028 0006-3207/ 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. ⇑ Corresponding author at: Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Zürcherstrasse 111, CH-8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland. Tel.: +41 62 213 81 56. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (E. Bader), [email protected] (K. Jung), [email protected] (R.A. Page), [email protected] (R. Rodriguez), thomas. [email protected] (T. Sattler). Elias Bader a,b,⇑, Kirsten Jung , Elisabeth K.V. Kalko , Rachel A. Page , Raul Rodriguez , Thomas Sattler b,c
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