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• ISBN: 0226462064 (cloth : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 9780226462066 (cloth : alk. paper)
• Physical Description: xix, 779 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
• Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2003.

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Ecology of cavity and foliage roosting bats / Thomas H. Kunz and Linda F. Lumsden -- Sensory ecology and communication in the Chiroptera / John D. Altringham and M. Brock Fenton -- Bats and balls : sexual selection and sperm competition in the Chiroptera / Gerald S. Wilkinson and Gary F. McCracken -- Ecology of bat migration / Theodore H. Fleming and Peggy Eby -- Life histories of bats : life in the slow lane / Robert M.R. Barclay and Lawrence D. Harder -- Ecomorphology of bats : comparative and experimental approaches relating structural design to ecology / Sharon M. Swartz, Patricia W. Freeman and Elizabeth F. Stockwell -- Attack and defense : interactions between echolocating bats and their insect prey / Gareth Jones and Jens Rydell -- Glossophagine bats and their flowers : costs and benefits for plants and pollinators / Otto von Helversen and York Winter -- Bats and fruit: an ecomorphological approach / Elizabeth R. Dumont -- Physiological ecology and energetics of bats / John R. Speakman and Donald W. Thomas -- Evolution of ecological diversity in bats / Nancy B. Simmons and Tenley M. Conway -- Trophic strategies, niche partitioning, and patterns of ecological organization / Bruce D. Patterson, Michael R. Willig and Richard D. Stevens -- Patterns of range size, richness, and body size in the Chiroptera / Michael R. Willig, Bruce D. Patterson and Richard D. Stevens -- Bats, emerging virus infections, and the rabies paradigm / Sharon L. Messenger, Charles E. Rupprecht and Jean S. Smith -- Conservation ecology of bats / Paul A. Racey and Abigail C. Entwistle.

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Bats > Ecology.
Chiroptera.
Ecology.