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Ecology of bats

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Ecology of small mammals

Abstract

Information on the ecology of bats is included already in the classical monographs by Eisentraut (1937), Allen (1939), Ryberg, (1947) and Kuzyakin (1950) as well as in books summarizing data on the bat faunae of certain regions (Abelentsev et al., 1956; Verschuren, 1957; Rosevear, 1965; Villa, 1966; Barbour and Davis, 1969; Kingdon, 1974). Problems of the ecology of bats are the subject of a whole monograph by Brosset (1966) and considerable parts of those by Wimsatt (1970) and Slaughter and Walton (1970). In addition, round 3200 papers on the ecology of bats were published during the past three decades (Krzanowski, in litt.). Due to the limited space allotted to this chapter, only an outline of the problems can be given. Data and papers which could not be utilized are not considered less valuable.

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Gaisler, J. (1979). Ecology of bats. In: Stoddart, D.M. (eds) Ecology of small mammals. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5772-5_7

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